Rats, Mosquitos, and the Fall of Rome @toldinstone
Rats, Mosquitos, and the Fall of Rome @toldinstone
Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How two pests shaped Roman history.
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Chapters:
0:00 Rome, 357 AD
1:31 Rome, 590 AD
3:22 Mosquitos and malaria
4:16 The spread of malaria
5:54 Impacts of malaria
7:33 Enter the rat
9:27 Rats and plague
10:37 The Plague of Justinian
11:38 Plague, malaria, and the fall of Rome
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Rats, Mosquitos, and the Fall of Rome

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