Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Rome, Italy
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“In my opinion, the key internal element in Rome’s success or failure was the economic well-being of its taxpayers. This was because the empire relied for its security on a professional army, which in turn relied on adequate funding.”
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
“A hung jury, however, suggests that any decline was not overwhelming; and, in common with most historians, I believe the empire was still very powerful at the end of the fourth century. Unfortunately, a series of disasters was soon to change things.”
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
“The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.”
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
― The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
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