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Is America Falling, Like the Roman Empire?

by David Tollen | Aug 1, 2011 | Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age (Medieval History)

Historians have never gotten together on a reason for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The question is more than just academic because the West’s great powers have often compared themselves to Rome and wondered if they might go the same way. Nowadays,...