{"id":18026,"date":"2016-02-19T20:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2016-02-19T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:43:40","slug":"currency-and-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18026","title":{"rendered":"Currency And The Collapse Of The Roman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-02-19\/currency-and-collapse-roman-empire\" target=\"_blank\">Currency And The Collapse Of The Roman Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"tabs\"><strong>At its peak, the Roman Empire held up to 130 million people over a span of 1.5 million square miles.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Rome had conquered much of the known world. The Empire built 50,000 miles of roads, as well as many aqueducts, amphitheatres, and other works that are still in use today.<\/p>\n<p>Our alphabet, calendar, languages, literature, and architecture borrow much from the Romans. Even concepts of Roman justice still stand tall, such as being \u201cinnocent until proven guilty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.visualcapitalist.com\/currency-and-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire\/\">as Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Jeff Desjardins&#8217; asks,\u00a0<\/a><strong>how could such a powerful empire collapse?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.visualcapitalist.com\/currency-and-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/money.visualcapitalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/collapse-of-roman-empire.jpg?w=1360\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currency And The Collapse Of The Roman Empire At its peak, the Roman Empire held up to 130 million people over a span of 1.5 million square miles. Rome had conquered much of the known world. The Empire built 50,000 miles of roads, as well as many aqueducts, amphitheatres, and other works that are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[951,413,12505,647,5923,1024,12504,4318],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-currency","tag-hyperinflation","tag-jeff-desjardin","tag-precious-metals","tag-roman-empire","tag-rome","tag-visual-capitalist","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}