Jared Diamond: Why Do Societies Collapse?

The Mayan Civilization collapsed because of Malnutrition. First, people were abandoned by erosion and debris. Mayan farmed an area for up to five years, then they planted nothing there for ten years. Since, their population grew bigger and bigger, they had to overfarmed the hill sides. Naturally, the erosion occurred in the area. Houses were abandoned, and some houses were completely buried by debris. Therefore, people left the area because of erosion and debris can be proved. Second, the land made less and less crops. As the Maya got bigger and bigger, the population also increased. In order to feed large population in valley, farmers decided to grow crops every year. However, even they grew crops every year, the population was too big, so

The rise and fall of different civilizations and empires is caused by various social, political, and cultural factors that affect its societies. One of the most important concepts seen in empires are the creation of its culture and its relation to the beliefs of its society. Religion plays an enormous role in understanding the purpose behind the actions of the people in a civilization. Religion and culture are dependent of each other as it reflects the ideas and values that society has agreed upon. As a new urban civilization during 2500 B.C, The Indus Valley Civilization created a sociopolitical system that

     The societies of Paleolithic man were far different then that of the Neolithic man. The Old Stone Age societies had no time for other actives then what was necessary to survive. They did not invent many new things, and were constantly moving and changing their environment. Societies in he New Stone Age were a settled people, who constantly

Farmers get developments for harvesting, meaning they can now do the work in a quarter of the time they could do

One issue in the late 1800s or early 1900s was conservation. Business and government organizations destroyed the physical attributes of the land for their own selfish purpose of making more money. An example is lumber industries cutting down every single trees in a forested area of which they owned. This destroyed the natural habitat of the land and affected the living things that lived there negatively. Probably railroad companies had do the same as lumber companies to cut down trees that came in the way of them making the railroad just for making more profit. This would eventually destroy the natural environment and take a long time for the country to recover if this continued.

It brought with it deforestation, and large amounts of pollution, which have had a large impact on their small community.

Fall of Civilizations: Aztecs and Incas conquered by Spanish explorers and smallpox; Mayans had an unknown end

The Indians were ridiculed and manipulated because of many different bills passed in the 1800’s and their land was decreasing in size and amount of food sources and land. The effects of the Indian Removal Act, Westward expansion, and the Dawes Act on the Native Americans in the 1800’s were abundant.

All of these places had consecutive civilizations that eventually collapsed, even though each preceding civilization influenced

There has recently been discoveries regarding the fates of ancient societies. These discoveries reveal that great cultures like the Mayans, ancient Mesopotamians, and the Anasazi of the American Southwest

Great Plains would be catastrophic. The result of this is The Dust Bowl. Some main questions

Subject: Reflects how these collapse of historical societies features manifest themselves in American society to gain better idea of what our future holds.

The word “collapse” has a number of connotations associated with it. Some view it exclusively the degradation of societies of the highest order. Others see it as the complete disintegration of economic prospects and commerce. Some even think of it political ruin with the demise of states and ruling factions that maintain order. The most general definition for collapse can includes elements from these three viewpoints. American anthropologist and historian Joseph A. Tainter is best known for his writings on societal collapses. In 1988 he published his most widely recognized work, The Collapse of Complex Societies.

As population rose, the nobles of the independent city states both intermarried and made war on one another. Ultimately, the system of rule that had served the Maya for centuries had failed. Faced with famine, foreign invasion, chronic warfare, and perhaps disease, an era ended what is generally called the Classic Maya collapse.

In this essay I will be considering only but one of the many questions that archaeologists analyse when researching the human past. As the title suggests, did civilization, or, a term preferably used by scholars; social complexity, arise from a conflicted band of nomadic people or from a mutual consensus among them? As well as my own thought’s, I will be discussing the ideologies of a number of professionals, both in archaeology and social anthropology, focusing mainly on the early development of the archaic Mesopotamian and Mesoamerican civilisations.