Yes, there were huge plagues in Ancient Rome that caused all kind of devastation.....
One of the FIRST of the BIG plagues was the Antonine Plague, 165-180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen, an ancient pandemic, whether of smallpox or measles, they are not sure, claimed the lives of TWO Roman emperors.
The disease broke out again 9 years later and caused up to 2,000 deaths a DAY at Rome, one quarter of those infected.
Total deaths have been estimated at five million.
Disease killed as much as one-third of the population in some areas, and decimated the Roman army.
This thing traveled far too, up into Gaul, all over Roman Europe.
The Plague of Justinian may have been the first instance of bubonic plague and was one of the causes of the Fall of the Roman Empire.
Smaller but no less deadlier plagues played havoc throughout the Roman Empire over many years.
Diseases from unkept Roman plumbing with the ground water mixing in with rain water.
Answer:
(Roosevelt Corollary) Monroe Doctrine
Explanation:
In 1934,renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy for the Western Hemisphere.
When the US in 1934 had renounced interventionism it set his Good Neighbor policy for the Western Hemisphere.
President Roosevelt introduced the notion of an American nation surveilling the continent for the interest of Americans.
The long and continuous history of U.S. interventions happening in the world was most clearly seen in Latin America. Since the emergence of the Roosevelt corollary had prevented European powers for furthering their influence and power in the region.
At the same time a "dollar diplomacy" also provoked that American foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere played a violent and recurrent role where guerrillas and wars of intervention had a colonial character
