Summary Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked. View more details
Directed : Frédéric Wilner
Written : Frédéric Wilner
Stars : Benoît Rossignol Philippe Blanchard Dominique Castex Géraldine Sachau-Carcel
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Nov 18, 2022
Countries of origin : France
Language : French
Production companies : ARTE Les films de l'odyssée Iliade productions
Summary Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked. View more details
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Nov 18, 2022
Countries of origin : France
Language : French
Production companies : ARTE Les films de l'odyssée Iliade productions
