Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Anthony KaldellisHistorian of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at the University of Chicago and author of "The New Roman Empire"
Kaldellis explains the fall of the West as a vicious cycle in which barbarian armies seized provinces, depriving the state of taxes needed to field armies.
“This created this kind of vicious cycle because then the Roman state lost access to the resources from those provinces, that is the taxes”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:06
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of EmpiresLex Fridman Podcast · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 h 59 min
Historian Anthony Kaldellis and Lex Fridman trace 2,200 years of Roman history, arguing the Byzantine Empire was simply the Roman Empire and explaining its longevity.