{"id":1141,"date":"2016-08-31T20:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2016-08-31T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:50:37","slug":"pestilence-in-ancient-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/pestilence-in-ancient-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pestilence in Ancient Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pestilence raged in Rome, and over most of the Empire &#8230; (<em>The First Four Seals, pg. 27<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This well-documented outbreak was likely the black death or plague (although smallpox is also suggested), the same which decimated\u00a0the population of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn 212, during the reign of Caracalla,\u00a0Roman citizenship\u00a0was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the Empire. But despite this gesture of universality, the Severan dynasty\u00a0was tumultuous\u2014an emperor\u2019s reign was ended routinely by his murder or execution\u2014and, following its collapse, the Roman Empire was engulfed by the\u00a0Crisis of the Third Century, a period of invasions, civil strife, economic disorder, and <strong><em>plague<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Empire#History\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Empire: History<\/a>,\u201d <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, referencing P. Brown, <em>The World of Late Antiquity<\/em>, London, 1971, p. 22. Emphasis added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pestilence raged in Rome, and over most of the Empire &#8230; (The First Four Seals, pg. 27). This well-documented outbreak was likely the black death or plague (although smallpox is also suggested), the same which decimated\u00a0the population of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. \u201cIn 212, during the reign of Caracalla,\u00a0Roman citizenship\u00a0was granted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,77,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-6","7":"category-revelation-61-8","8":"category-the-seals-opened","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}