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Topic: Famines and plagues 400 to 800
Location: Lysimachia Canakkale Turkey

Famines and plagues 400 to 800

Years: 400 - 800

Famine in Western Europe is associated with the Fall of Rome and its sack by Alaric I.

Between CE 400 and 800, the population of the city of Rome falls by over 90%, mainly because of famine and plague.

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

— George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1906)