Edward Gibbon · Civilisations
Gibbon’s answer to the greatest question in history - what brought down the Roman Empire - and his famous, controversial diagnosis of the causes of decline.
You learned that Gibbon sought the causes of Rome’s fall, famously summarising it as ‘the triumph of barbarism and religion.’ Reconstruct his main explanations and the debate over them, in your own words.
Leads to Ibn Khaldun.
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