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rDramaHistorian Bard/Finn So what? What are you going to do about it, nerd?  9mo ago (image post) 238 thread views #249079
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Choose one: I have got Tuesday and Wednesday off and I'll complete the most voted one in 48 hours

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I busted my chin open a week ago so I'm leveraging that and taking random days off

I'll complete the entire book and give you guys the essential notes as a blogpost

@neoconshill could you pin this to lit for 5-6 hours?

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I've heard Gibbon is not historically accurate so I think the Napoleonlet one would be more illuminating, and retvrn to Gibbon after reading some more accurate works on Rome.

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Noted :marseynotes:

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The problem with Gibbon is that he uses primary sources only and takes their accounts as absolute truths when many of them should be taken with a grain of salt, but tbf there was no archeological record in the 18th century so is not really his fault, he did the best he could with the resources available to him, that's what makes his work outdated but still a fine piece of literature. The Fall of Rome by Ward Perkins is a much better book to learn about the Fall of the Western Empire @rDramaHistorian

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Will try to find it on Amazon. LibGen probably has it but it's a pain in the butt/eyes to read it on ipad

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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather is another good one.

Heather also sparked controversy because he used the term “predatory migration” :chudsmug: to describe the Germanic invasions, making some academiccels seethe.

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I've heard Gibbon is not historically accurate

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