\[ **up: [[History--Ancient]] | [[Civilisation and culture--Ancient--Roman]] | [[Italy]]** ] --- # Roman Empire ## Fall of the Roman Empire ### Famines [[“Romans prayed to the god of mildew, Robigus, to avert fungal diseases but weren’t able to stop the famines that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.”]][^1] [^1]: Merlin Sheldrake, *[[Sheldrake. 'Entangled Life', 2021.|Entangled Life]]* (Vintage, 2021), p. 8.