• Guy Ingonito
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    122 days ago

    Why would they be talking about stupidity when Rome fell to the Ottomans militarily?

    • @ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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      122 days ago

      Because there were decades of corruption, overextension, and bad policy which lead up to them being susceptible to conquering by an outside power. The “fall of time” wasn’t one single event. It was a gradual decay, mostly in the Western half of the split empire