Why Great Societies Fall

After reading “What we have to lose” By Theodore Dalrymple, I can conclude that it is a defense of civilization from barbarism. Dalrymple puts forward his main arguments which many come from his own experience with details and examples. Also, the article helps convey to the reader that the greatest threat to our great society comes from within. Dalrymple's article helped enlighten me that today's society has grown so used to civilization that it seems impossible to conceive that it is actually a delicate thing. Dalrymple’s article gives us an important lesson that even though we have countless amount of resources and technology in today's world, society is not unconquerable, and it can vanish.

Many civilizations fail due to human's activity. A famous example would be the Easter Island who failed to see the long-term effects they had on their island. But other civilizations decline is not directly related to human activity.

Societal collapse can be vast within the archaeological context but more generally occurs from conflicting elements that contribute to the downfall of a social collapse due to things such as

Jared Diamond is a world renowned scientist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and currently a geography professor at UCLA. Of his six books published, we will be looking at the last chapter of his fourth book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. In this book Diamond utilizes the comparative method to find resemblance in past societal collapses with our current society. In the chapter entitled, "The World as Polder: What Does it Mean to Us Today," Diamond points out that there are indeed many parallels between past and present societies and that our modern day society is currently on a path of self destruction , through examples such as globalization and the interdependency of each country.

Civilization can be defined as an advanced state of human society with a high level of cultural and technological development. However, this definition is unclear and subjective because it implies that civilization is better, more advanced, and superior to other forms of social organization yet some aspects of civilization seem in our judgment quite negative like for instance large-scale warfare, slavery, coerced tribute, epidemic disease, and the subordination of women.

Societies can and will fall due to flaws in their system which is caused by the bullying and poor decisions that generate because of that. Different ways these flaws can happen are: with two leaders that both want power, straight up bullying people in that group, and by making small separate groups that would work better together.

As I listen to Jared Diamond on this video I had a hard time listening to him. It seemed like he was just

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

1. Environmental damage, inability to manage natural resources, and the fragility of certain environments make this one of the largest reasons for collapse.

The Roman conquest of the Greek East resulted in the beginning of a substantial period of acculturation. At the time, the Roman city-state was considered relatively primitive, however, upon having taken the Greek East, took much from Hellenistic culture. The successful conquest of this region demonstrated the military and economic superiority of Rome over Greece. The fact that a younger nation, that of Rome, was capable of conquering a more ancient civilization demonstrated the rapid military progress realized by the nation.

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.

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

The Classic Age of Greece started in 500 B.C.E to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E during this time Greek city states united to go against the Persian Empire and because of that they defeated the Persians. After the war was over and they no longer needed each other, Greek city-states began fighting against one another. When the Greeks weren’t fighting off Persians they were fighting against each other. The two main city-states against each other were Athens and Sparta. The Athenians hated the Spartans so much they asked foreigners for help before even approaching the fellow Greeks. Political change heavily occurred when Athenian citizens made their city state government completely democratic, using the navy force to establish power over other Greeks. Meanwhile in 509 B.C.E the Roman Republic was founded. Rome’s greatest expansion was not during the empire but during the republic. It began with the legend of their first king Romulus. Romulus was known for commanding his men to kidnap and impregnate the Sabine women to create a larger population. Sabine men charged back attacking Rome to rescue their women. In the end they made peace and merged their population with that of Rome. This action displays an intermingling of cultures and peoples. Unlike Greek city-states, Rome expanded by venturing outside of their territory and intermingling with others whether peacefully or violently thus Rome’s relentless effort in expansion is what made them differ to the Greeks

Imagine a world with overbearing leaders, poverty, and social judgements? In different societies there are many different reasons that they could fall. Social injustice, corrupt government, and poverty are some of the different reasons that will be written about. In Divergent, Rome and Nazi,Germany there were similar downfalls between all of the societies. There are many ways for different societies to fall; social injustice, corrupt government, and poverty.

The peoples of the dominant human societies lost their sense of attachment to the living earth, and societies became divided between the rulers and the ruled, exploiters and exploited. The brutal competition for power created a relentless play-or-die, rule-or-be-ruled dynamic of violence and oppression and served to elevate the most ruthless to the highest positions of power. Since the fateful turn, the major portion of the resources available to human societies has been diverted from meeting the needs of life to supporting the military forces, prisons, palaces, temples, and patronage for retainers and propagandists on which the system of domination in turn depends. Great civilizations built by ambitious rulers fell to successive waves of