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Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

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Elon Musk has linked modern-day population decline to ancient Rome, warning that wealth-driven 'hedonism and envy' could ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

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The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor ...

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explains how the widespread uncertainty and chaos triggered by the Trump administration reveals the dynamics of an empire’s retreat and decline – and why this administration poses a serious ...

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