Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit English Subtitles

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This is the main gate of a great Roman city,

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on the empire's northern frontier in Germany.

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It advertises the presence and the impact of Rome.

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And it's still here, 2,000 years later.

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Rome was built to last.

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But it didn't.

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One of the biggest puzzles about the Roman Empire has always been

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what caused its decline and fall?

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Historians have been debating that one since the fifth century AD

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and we still haven't agreed an answer.