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Bulwark | 26 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +2 
 Book recommendations for the Roman Empire and its fall?

#asknostr
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AVERAGE_GARY | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I have one for you
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bitcoin4all | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Collapse by Jared Diamond
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Bulwark | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thx you 🫡🫡
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8d1e5be5 | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Edward gibbon
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Bulwark | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thx you, will look for this at the library and Amazon if I can't borrow it
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mmcxii | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan.

Follows the fall of the Republic as it decays, climaxing with Sulla taking Rome.

Duncan also has the preeminent podcast on the subject, The History of Rome. I’ve listened to it front to back many times.

Next on my reading list is Mary Beard’s SPQR, which I’ve heard great things about.
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Bulwark | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Noted appreciate it brother 🫡
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Zordon | 25 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 2nd the book and podcast. 

I submit Dan Carlin’s podcast Hardcore History had a Fall of Roman series. I believe it’s behind a paywall now but his latest stuff is great and he’s very entertaining.
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jasontheoriginal | 25 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If it's because you want to understand money collapse due to inflation like when the Roman's took gold out of the money a better read is "when money dies" about the Weimar Repuplic = Germany after ww1.
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Bulwark | 25 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Partly, and I just bought and read when money dies! Excellent book.

I instead just want to start reading more historical non fiction as a way to learn about real history. Felt like I didn't do that as well as I should have growing up, and don't trust what I was told through text books