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24 Apr 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
“Of the greater Greek world or individual city-states like Athens? We think of Athens as being a couple 100,000 people.”
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…What is the population of Greece during their golden age? Of the greater Greek world or individual city-states like Athens? We think of Athens as being a couple 100,000 people. Not massive. So I wonder if the Greeks had the science but not the people to sustain a modern economy. Or not modern, but even a sort of industrial economy. And then the Romans had the people but not the science.…
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