Jeremy Ryan Slate | Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed: The Three Failures That End Every Empire and the Men Who Rewrite the Record | Part 1 of 2

In the year 284, a loaf of bread in Rome cost 15,000 percent more than it had a lifetime earlier. The silver coin that bought it had been quietly hollowed out until almost no silver remained in it at all.

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