I don’t know but my speculation:

• Europe’s economy (from which the Church’s income was largely derived) didn’t go into overdrive until the Renaissance / Columbus landing in America.
• That growth being offset by the Reformation, with a lot of Europeans leaving the Roman Catholic Church.
• The somewhat decentralized nature of the Church, with a lot of assets in the hands of monastic orders and semi-autonomous archbishoprics.
• Perhaps an absolutist theocratic monarchy is not the most conducive form of government for economic and population growth.

The population started to tick up with the Renaissance, but when Italy essentially unified under a more modern constitutional monarchy in 1861, ending the Pope’s temporal power over the city, Rome’s population growth went stratospheric.

Source: https://www.jetpunk.com/users/quizmaster/charts/population-of-rome-over-time

Lots of things happen there! It’s party time all the time!

Like the mouthpieces for the Other Dear Leader in (not) the People’s (not) Democratic (not a) Republic of Korea.

They’ve already barred AP, and seized control over who gets to come into any event that can’t fit the entire press corps from the White House Correspondents Association.

Pretty soon, it’ll be just OAN, Newsmax and The Daily Stormer asking her “questions”.

Sounds like a slippery slope to Truth Socialism!

Yeah, but what-aboutery is the standard response of the playbook MAGA use (the CCP’s).

Just because he sucked the blood of many Transylvanians doesn’t make him genocidal!

Deny! Attack! Reverse Victim & Offender!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Sorry, I thought he went to Princeton-Plainsboro.

Cool to see the meme applied to someone who genuinely went to clown college!

“I don’t care about your opinion”, says MTG to journalist trying to ask her for her opinion.

Yet today protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism, a fig leaf for those unwilling to maintain America’s military strength and who lack the resolve to stand up to real enemies – countries that would use violence against us or our allies.

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All Yankees Fans Are…

• Beautiful
• Bodacious
• Bitchin’
• Illegitimate

Take your pick :)

Come on now, those were different times!

There can be only one… or twelve.

https://lemmy.ca/post/41209766

Yet more evidence he jumped into Kash Patel?

In addition to the points others made, Rome has not always been a bustling city.

Its population declined from more than a million in AD 210 to 500,000 in AD 273 to 35,000 after the Gothic War (535–554) reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.

The city’s population declined to less than 50,000 people in the Early Middle Ages from 700 AD onward. It continued to stagnate or shrink until the Renaissance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Middle_Ages

Thanks to multiple sackings, power struggles, plagues etc.

It only surpassed a million again in 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Demographics

AYFAB?

Musk probably has his own Night of the Long Knives coming sooner or later.

As in, he will be the target, not the perpetrator.

• Röhm = Musk
• Hitler = Trump
• Himmler = Vance? Patel? Other?