Is The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire still

>>1839411
No

>>1839411
>not getting all of your information, political opinions, and social commentary from guns, germs, and steel

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>>1839411
No it's fairly outdated. Still an entertaining read tho

Is it still the go-to book? No, absolutely not.

While it was incredibly well put together and researched, it has shown its age, and some of his claims were just really retarded and biased.

However, it is still a very entertaining read, and useful if you want to know the basics of what happened and how it contributed to other things happening. Just don't read too into it, because some of the claims he tries making are a little silly.

>>1839411
It goes into the category of books that tell you so much more about thevery time and circumstances. It was written in than the history it was writing about, that said absolutely worth reading.

>>1839411
Its worth reading in the same way occult grimoires are worth reading, as a way to understand the spirit and mood of the time period they were written.

>>1840350
name literally two silly claims

hard mode: the claims can't be something that politically upset you

>>1841071
1. Organized christianity caused the downfall of the roman empire. We now know it was an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the fall instead, and delayed that fall.
2. The fall of the roman empire ended civilization in Europe for centuries. We now know it ended centralization, but sophistication remained present, just spread out thinner.

I don't know, is Hippocrates's Four Humours still the go to theory for medicine?

Stupid shit.