Practice question · Estimate
A German scholar once catalogued every reason ever proposed for Rome’s fall, lead pipes, Christianity, taxes, bathhouses, climate... How many did he find?
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 400.
Hints
- Well over a hundred.
- The count is famous precisely because it is absurd: 210.
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210 (answers within ±30 count)
Why
- The number is a methodological warning label: when an event has two hundred and ten proposed causes, any confident single-cause story is a preference wearing a toga.
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