I believe information technology/ technology in general enabled us to speedrun the final 800 years

Rome nearly collapsed many many times, and arguably did collapse when going from Republic to Principate, , then again in the third century before Diocletian reformed the empire and founded the Tetrarchy, which then collapsed and turned into the Constantinian system with constant civil wars.

Rome was very very far from stable, and in fact one of the defining phenomenons during the entire period was a lot of political violence and class struggles.

That’s what pisses me off. Assholes couldn’t even wait 500 years or something before destroying everything we’ve built. We should be in a golden age.