Did I just prove how Rome collapsed from dysgenics?
A new study by myself, Davide Piffer, and Emil Kirkegaard
Watch below:
Read the study here.
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Rome fell due to climate change and vaccine hesitancy, everyone knows that.
To be serious though it is a very interesting theory, the question I have is why did Rome rise so rapidly in power and can we assume it was due to those in Rome?
3rd century BC Rome ruled over less than a fifth of modern day Italy, by 100 AD it ruled over most of modern Western Europe, the UK, Egypt, Turkey, all of populated North Africa, the Ukraine, Greece and its islands and the Levant. Given that Rome was governed by regional governors is it reasonable to say the empire fell because of the people who lived in Rome? Did this small region have evolutionary pressures that didn't exist elsewhere or did they hit on a system of governance that was far better than the alternatives?
Judging by their respective civilizational achievements, the Germanic migrants/invaders must have had way lower avg. IQ than the indigenous Italic peoples. Higher avg IQ generally leads to more individualism and lower ethnocentrism. No wonder lower IQ people like the Turks, Moors and Germanics managed to conquer more intelligent but less ethnocentric nations.