the results were of course equally devastating especially devastating to the Western Roman Empire. The time the Romans were hit by the diseases coincides with the arrival of Germanic Barbarians from Northern and Eastern Europe that entered the Roman territory, found it deserted because of the major decline in the population due to disease, civil war, etc., and made it their own.
In addition to disease other things impacted both the Han and Roman Empires that lead to their eventual decline. Both Empires
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