#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

11262.547 - 11285.742 Gregory Aldrete

Barbarians are raiding. You have internal instability. In one year, you have something like eight or nine different guys go through as emperor in 238. So it's a mess. And it looks like the Roman Empire is going to fall in around the mid-third century. So this is the crisis. And then the kind of shocking development is late in that third century, they actually stabilize the empire.