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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2827118, member: 76194&quot;]Also, be careful reading Gibbons. His scholarship is very outdated and biassed. He tends to view everything after 180 CE as bad, and wrongly focuses on Christianity as the main reason for the collapse of the Empire...which modern scholarship has more or less discredited.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think he also oversimplified his analysis of the era of the &quot;5 Good Emperors&quot; and leaves a lot of relevant things out. But to give Gibbons some credit, he wrote a great account of Roman history for his time period. But archaeology has advanced a lot over the last 2 centuries and as a result we look at the ancient world now with the benefit of greater research and data that simply was not available to him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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