is the Antonine Plague considered a turning point in the history of Rome...........??

In AD 165, a plague called the Antonine plague hit the Roman Empire. The epitomic stole the life of a Roman Empiror called Lucius Verus from his family name Antonius, the epidemic got its name Antonine plague.

This disease was brought back to the Rome by troops returning from the campaigns in the near East. In AD 178, it caused 2,000 deaths a day in the Rome, and by AD 180, it  killed thirty percent of the population. The plague rampaged throughout the empire from the Persia to Spain, and Britain to Egypt.

The plague almost wiped out the Roman Army. The disease broke out again after nine years. In brief, the plague may well have created the conditions for the decline of the roman empire.

Did you know….?

Roman soldiers sacked a temple of the god Apollo in Seleucia. The Romans believed that the plague was Apollo’s way of punishment them for destroying his temple.