Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse With Mary Beard | Empire Without Limit | Odyssey

You can see the changing roles of centre vs periphery of the Empire also in the arts. Provincial styles started to influence Roman art instead of the earlier dominance of Roman aesthetic values influencing the Barbarians on the outskirts. Fascinating stuff.

It's been a quite while since I last watched Mary Beard. Once again I am reminded how thin her narratives are. It's a true waste of a great history lesson. Sorry Mary. I know you love history, but it will be another ten years before I will consider to watch her again. With a title like this, it's just another click bait opportunity for someone to steal an hour from me that I'll never get back.

Fabulous with a unique perspective!

I didi not know that Mary had collapsed......

Been to Israel this June. Loved every minute of it

As a teenager I sometimes used to dream about what would have been if the Roman Empire lasted up to our days… how would the world look like today…and I always concluded that our advancement and progress would have been infinitely faster, like the trains of Japan are today compared to many other countries…something like that.

They were on drugs? Drunk? Maybe they were dehydrated. Mary obviously survived.

All empires eventually collapse for the same reason all balloons eventually pop. There, I just saved you 3556 seconds of your life.

This woman is a British national treasure

Mary Beard is a great historian and story teller!

I’m not sure what she means by not recognizing Christianity or it being something else in the early days. We in the Orthodox Church still do what the church fathers say, and they were taught by the apostles. And the splits between the different orthodox - Armenian, Ethiopian, oriental, eastern (which encompasses all of the “language” orthodox churches, they’re the same church), Coptic - anyone outside them wouldn’t even see a difference, that’s how close we are to the original Christian faith. Most of the arguments separating us most non Christians can’t even comprehend without a degree in philosophy or theology.

It’s just really confusing to say that todays Christian has nothing to do with the early Christian.

Roman Empire didn’t collapse. It transformed

A ghastly teenager in spades!!

Instead of showing you a simple, edifying map, I will do an extended bit with a pizza!

How can you say Christianity is a sect? I dare you to say that about Islam and see what people say. And Jesus and his disciples are not just a "group of extremists". Very disrespectful.

I can sum it up in 5 words;

It ran out of Romans

I guess the two Major Factors are Resource exhaustion and Cooling Climate

I'm sure we will get the shotty waters down version. So I'll give it to you. They fell because the were pervers sexual predators, having intercourse with heir own children, and their children with them, they and their children available to the whole soiciaty for sexual perversion, sex with animals, ect. Sex is sacred and made for marriage, and this is why this decrepit soiciaty is cursed and falling at a very fast rate, all ov you will be eradicated like the Incas, the Egyptians, they use to be top of the world, way more advance than us, yet their perversion destroyed them. Take heed

I think Mary Beard would have scared off all the emperors.

"Why did the Roman Empire Collapse with Mary Beard?" I always knew she was to blame.

Cant really address the Jews or Jesus or any of the rest of that history if one has no knowledge of the Bible. Fact is good ol Constatine married the pagans to the new Believers & what came out of Rome after is the political power of the CC....So no Romans never really went away they reinvented themselves...Like DC & its original name was ROME lol and it has all the attributes of it. Cant kill the spirit of a thing

What an excellent production, well done Mary.

Either Mary beard was a vandal and wrecked the joint or, she was in the way of the falling masonry and got crushed. Take your pick. I love a who dun it mystery.

Love your fascinating documentaries.

UFC fighting on demand
Cops arresting good people for smoking
18 year old kids fighting far off wars
Veterans in the streets homeless
Billionaires and power
Citizens that know no true leader in that we haven't been given one. No true leader has risen thrugh the ranks to save us from us. No Hercules, no Jesus Christ, no Arther and Merlin. The United States of America has seen the top. Let's not see the bottom. God bless America. God give us a leader. One that can talk with the God's. One that can talk with the people. One that is humble. One that is honest. Truth is what we ask for. Amen.

I feel like this lady just wanted a free vacation

If this was put on in school me and my mates would just talk and not listen now I’m going out my way to watch it

Trump’s plagiarism?

English tart

Umm, because the Moslems conquered it??

Roman empire is still alive that's what controls the world in present times. It's on its way out for good though.

Roman empire didn't collapse,it became a preisthood.

Why that pizza so tough?

Like; what is happening in many countries today, like in America. Invaders, refugees and migrants who did not care or have allegiance to Rome or it's values, ended up destroying the Roman Empire from within. You can go back to Sparta and the same is true.

"People called Romanes they go the house?"

all of the above as it is now

Well... i think that are other topics to explore about the fall of roman empire, like civil wars, famine, the plague, never forget that were people that were opressed in the boundaries and wanted revenge for their ancestors

Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse With Mary Beard , didnt it collapse way before she was born?

Dear Mary Beard! Would you possibly make a film about the collapse of Great Britain as this is happening currently in our eyes!

Why did Rome fall? - Probably Liberals again. :)

so basically, christians took down rome

Mary beard collapsed?

All the Roman gods reminds me of the Catholic Saints. It's the same idea in the sense of asking a Saint for protection (St. Joseph), safe travels (St. Christopher) or to locate lost items (St. Anthony, I think). Some things in the human psyche just never really change much; there is such a deep need for Spiritual relationships and interactions with the unseen world.

I ❤ Mary Beard. She's phenomenal. And she's right too. Rome didn't cease to exist. It transformed instead and in its new form, that of Christianity, it continued to expand. Today it stretches around the world, having absorbed the Americas and over a half of Eurasia. It continues to live in English vicabulary, and in Romance languages of today which are 21st century Latin.

Mary Beard is awesome. She brings the Romans to life with her excellent narrative. Are we not the extension of the Roman Empire? I’m not sure Jesus would understand the Roman version of his ministry.

IT WAS PROBABLY YOU THAT MADE IT HAPPEN

If you look at the United States today, not to mention certain other countries in Europe, you will see how the decay, moral decline and entitlement mentality ruined the Roman Empire and is now ruining our present civilization. The pendulum swings both ways over and over.