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	<title>Comments on: Henri Pirenne</title>
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		<title>By: Rollory</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rollory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This argument is complete bullshit, as Magus J says.  Roman population was declining steadily from 300 AD onwards.  Reasons for this, and symptoms of it, are readily evident everywhere in recorded Roman history as well as the archeological evidence.  By 800 AD the collapse was centuries-old history.

Islam is evil but lying to ourselves to make it a scapegoat for everything is incredibly idiotic, and nobody with any pretense to intellectual integrity should participate in such a thing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This argument is complete bullshit, as Magus J says.  Roman population was declining steadily from 300 AD onwards.  Reasons for this, and symptoms of it, are readily evident everywhere in recorded Roman history as well as the archeological evidence.  By 800 AD the collapse was centuries-old history.</p>
<p>Islam is evil but lying to ourselves to make it a scapegoat for everything is incredibly idiotic, and nobody with any pretense to intellectual integrity should participate in such a thing.</p>
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		<title>By: Magus J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Magus J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent archaeological evidence has shown the Pirenne thesis (no catastrophic fall of Rome) to be B.S.  See Ward-Perkins&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization-ebook/dp/B006OYD2K6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=isegoria0e-20&amp;linkId=fc9614cce087135417985de113600895&quot;&gt;The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization&lt;/a&gt;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recent archaeological evidence has shown the Pirenne thesis (no catastrophic fall of Rome) to be B.S.  See Ward-Perkins&#8217; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization-ebook/dp/B006OYD2K6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&#038;me=&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=isegoria0e-20&#038;linkId=fc9614cce087135417985de113600895">The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization</a>.</p>
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