Should I read this abridged?please no bully
>>9151951
Read Plutarch's Lives
>>9151959
No fuck off
>>9151951
Read this if you want major fedora tipping.
>Christians were the reason Rome fell
not even once
>>9152040
but they did
Never buy a Penguin book, so low quality, such shitty printing. Almost anything would be better
>>9152040
>atheist empires fall in a single lifetime
>christian empires last a few centuries, mainly by piggybacking off of prior pagan empires
>pagan empires last for thousands of years
If you can count the number of gods you have on one hand, you don't have enough gods.
Edward Gibbon's grandfather was engaged in the South Sea Bubble crisis
>>9153937
Which empires lasted for thousands of years
>>9153952
China
>>9153952
Egyptians
>>9154058
WE