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Crisis of the Third Century: The Fifty Years That Almost Broke Rome
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In 235 AD, a soldier's mutiny triggered the Crisis of the Third Century — fifty years of civil war, economic collapse, and foreign invasion that nearly ended Rome entirely. This is the chapter where the empire's myths collide with its limits.
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The year is two hundred and thirty-five. A twenty-six-year-old emperor named Alexander Severus is murdered by his own soldiers in a military camp near the Rhine.
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