The Collapse Of Complex Societies

The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were both some of the greatest empires in their time. The fall of the Roman Empire was followed by the fall of the Han Dynasty. Three major things that contributed to these empires falling were the economic troubles these empires were going through at the time, taxation was a huge trouble for some of these empires, trade was also a big contribution, and being economically weak had an impact as well. Political reasons were a major of why these empires fell, both these empires had problems when it came down to their rulers, both these empires also split into two at a point, as well as the gap between the rich and the poor.

Throughout history, there were various empires which developed into great, powerful forces. These empires expanded their lands to new places but, these empires ultimately came to an end. Amongst these great empires, were the Han and the Roman empire. Both were great in power but, due to political, social, and economic causes, they came to an end. Although they do partake in the equal shares of corruption and problems with the military, they also had fair shares of differences, regarding their declines. For example, the Han empire had decentralization and rebellion while Rome had shifted in interests and developed war issues. These differences and similarities are bits of history which help to comprehend why these empires are no longer

Main Idea 2 – Most large empires have similarities in how they rose and how they declined.

The Roman Empire and Han Empire were two of the strongest civilizations in the world during period two, while the Roman Empire fell to a much needed trade network which collapsed, the Han Empire fell to peasant revolts. However the two dynasties were more similar and ended because of sharing multiple issues including peasants evading taxes because the government was forced to tax more after ever expanding and not being able to defend the the newly claimed territory from attackers. Therefore the two dynasties collapsed during the same time period for many of the same reasons. The Roman Empire was in a crisis during 200 CE - 600 CE after splitting in half forming the Byzantine Empire.

Throughout the duration of history there has been a considerable number of incredible and influential empires, each of these amazing civilisations have created most of the world’s greatest structures and monuments that we know today in the modern world. They have contributed to the development and growth of society by introducing religions, agriculture and shaping the land. Two of these incredible civilisations are the Khmer empire and the monumental Roman empire. However, each of these empires eventually began to decline despite their endured efforts to fight through troubled times. In the duration of this essay, it will be comparing the ups and downs of the aforementioned empires and will be stating how all empires and civilisations rise and fall. This can be seen by closely examining and uncovering the secrets behind the rise, fall and achievements of empires and civilisations.

The Roman and the Han mostly fell because abused their people. They were given too much powers to the generals, they’d corrupted and abuse their position of power. This was mostly in the roman Empire. In the Han Empire General also corrupted people, and attacked. And eventually the Imperial court becomes divided. You should be careful to avoid giving too much power away to the generals to govern diverse people.

Societies fall politically because of things like corrupt government, or invasion.One example is in Saga where the dark queen of the world doesn't care for anyone but herself, and controls the lives of everyone. The Citizens of the world lived in poverty, because the government neglected them. As said in the book, “This world with the humans, pathetic creatures that are so easy to manipulate.”(223 Kostick)

In the past, most large societies have reached an inevitable failure. Most often, those failures have resulted due to energy scarcity and an overload of energy consumption as a factor. Another factor is civil wars. The majority of countries around the world have had a civil war since 1980. Conflicts often occur with growing populations as well as low economic growths. There are four theories of civilization failures. The first theorizes that environmental change and lack of resources heavily impact the collapses of society. Many measurements show a correlation between droughts and violence which increases risk of civil war which is largely proven factor of societal failure. The second theory predicts that limits in technology hinder society from growing past a certain point which causes the inevitable failure. Financial imbalance6 is also a key theory in this failure with two sub-theories. The first is social stratification in which the wealthier class exploits the lower class causing the financial imbalance to grow. The second is the overstretch of the empire. This occurs when the society puts such a large amount of their finances into their military in order to maintain it but this ends up causing the collapse instead of avoiding it. Only 14 of 66 countries studied have avoided bankruptcy. Economic booms are also a possible factor for

Thesis: Fear of impending decline, as the result of ineffective leaderships and external threats, resulted in infighting and lack of cohesion. Ultimately, this resulted in the fracturing of empires under the stresses of having disloyal and hopeless people.

John F. Kennedy once wrote, “Efforts and courage are not enough without direction.” From this I think he’s saying societies can fall if their not ruled the right way. And some of the societies seemed like nothing could get in their way, but obviously they did because they didn't take good care of them. That goes for a lot of other places also. Great societies fall due to social inequalities, a dysfunctional or corrupt government, a crippled and inflating economy, and over expansion. That’s why Nazi Germany, The Civil Rights Era in America, and Ancient Rome didn't survive.

Societies fall due to three main problems, corrupt government, unemployment, and lack of freedom for citizens. So many things have fallen from grace, including society, I say it as a whole and not a plural due to the general rule that every society falls at some point. In a few sentences, describe what your entire essay will be about. You should state the three reasons why great civilizations and societies fall. There are three main reasons, all stemming from that fact that humans destroy what they build, all in good time to the proximity of the original building of that particular society, some societies hold on longer than others, and some disappear almost the same day they were built, everything's different, but every fallen societies have suffered from the plague that is corrupt government, unemployment, and lack of freedoms. So many things have fallen from grace, including society, I say it as a whole and not a plural due to the general rule that every society falls at some point. But why, why do these powerful, wondrous, and wealthy societies crumble in the metaphorical palm of the universe? There are three main reasons, all stemming from that fact that humans destroy what they build, all in good time to the proximity of the original building of that particular society, some societies hold on longer than others, and some disappear almost the same day they were built, everything's different, but every fallen societies have suffered from the plague that is corrupt

Emma Goldman once said, “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” The stupidity of a civilization can lead to the downfall of a society. Other societies fell simply because of factors that are unpredictable. Today, you will learn more about those societies that have fallen and why they fell. Some of the reasons show up more than once. A lot of societies fail because they start to lose wars. Other societies fail because they are isolated. Another common reason is that environmental limitations didn’t allow them to live. Great Societies fell because of many wars, isolation factors, and all of the environmental limitations within nature.

No country is perfect, take the US for example. Many people live in poverty and our entire country lives in debt. Our military is having trouble recruiting good, qualified people to fight wars because there are so many teens dropping out of school (Coogan). Not to mention the fact that we have reoccurring mini wars within our states due to racism and police brutality; citizens are tearing apart their own towns and rioting against their protectors just for “fair justice.” These are only a few problems the US are facing today. However, the US still stands with these issues; we haven’t completely fallen apart yet. Although, some countries or empires have so many problems that they can’t stay afloat like us; they are destroyed. One of these places was the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was a city in Rome, Italia, what is now known as Rome, Italy. It began in 750 BCE, and soon rose to be a powerful empire. However, as the years passed, more and more problems began to rise in the empire due to the Romans getting lazy. With all of these new issues, the empire started to run downhill until it eventually was invaded and destroyed in 476 CE. There were many conflicts within the empire that added to it’s decline, but there are three that were worse than the others. The three primary reasons that caused Rome to fall were their barbaric culture, foreign invasions, numerous military problems, and unstable, cowardly leadership.

What would happen if your civilization fell? “All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” In this quote from Havelock Ellis explained that over time a society will “erupt” just like a volcano. There were many different reasons why so many great society's fell. Societies had so many wars that made them weaker and not be able to fight very well. Some societies like the Aztecs, Rome and Mesopotamia had disease or poison problems and increased the population of people. There were economic problems like dividing into city-states which cost a lot of money. Since there were so many wars then society's wouldn't have much time to trade causing some civilizations to struggle by not having what they need to

Great civilization and empires can collapse as a result of rebellions. New nations are born out of the groups that secede from larger ones. As the new civilizations arise the old ones continue to decline and lose the power they held before. The internal structure of an empire must remain strong or the empire will not stand. Internal rebellions break empires down and strip them of their leadership.