History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? (1x41)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 01, 2011

The questions of when Rome fell—and why—are arguably the most famous ongoing historical debates in the Western tradition. One German scholar has even posited 210 plausible answers to the "why."This lecture examines both the questions and the debates that swirl around them.