Why Have Civilizations Collapse

Over the course of human history, humans and our ancestors have made tremendous strides. From Homo habilis making the first stone tools to the Egyptians building The Pyramids of Giza, human history is nothing short of intriguing. If it wouldn’t have been for each stride made by our ancestors we probably wouldn’t live in the world that we live in today. When the Neolithic Era began in 9600 BCE, human civilizations gradually started to spring up all over the world. Humans set up civilizations from Mesopotamia in the Middle East, to China in East Asia, and all the way to Caral-Supe in South America. Although these ancient civilizations were separated by thousands of miles, they all share common patterns and

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

Jared Diamond's "The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization" draws conclusions between past civilizations and today's global civilization. His essay deals with the Analyzing the similarities in our actions to key turning points for other civilizations right before their fall. The main example stems from a civilization that Americans are acutely aware of, the Mayans. Diamond links ideas ranging from politics, environmentally unfriendly practices, and globalization as factors leading to the downturn of societies.

First Civilizations proved to be fragile and vulnerable. Mesopotamian city-states were absorbed into larger empires. Egypt suffered a series of foreign conquerors. Indus Valley civilization

Unlike that of China, the decline of Rome was much more upsetting having a much larger impact on the surrounding world. The Decline and fall of the Mediterranean and Chinese civilizations was a result of population decrease, weak government, a frail economy, and invasion. The causes of the imperial collapse in Rome and Greece(The Mediterranean region)with the causes of imperial collapse in the East Asia during the period 600 BCE toward 600 CE has had an remarkable achievements but those same achievements have caused them into decline. A combination of these causes sparked the slow decline of these once great empires..

Civilizations are born, reach their potential under extraordinary leaders, and over time lose their vitality and strength. The remarkable feature in this cycle is that new civilizations emerge out of there fallen leaders, regenerated by new leaders and by outside cultural

​A factor in the decline of the Aksum empire was deforestation. Deforestation was caused by their need for large amounts of timber to create charcoal. They needed charcoal to produce iron tools and weapons. At first, the empire had a myriad of timber which allowed them to grow and thrive. When they began to decline, they were devoid of timber. To keep the kingdom thriving, the prodigious amount of timber would have to be stable and to not become a major problem.

There are very few civilizations whose collapse can be easily theorized. Lack of evidence and trending arguments provide bias perceptions for most research. Examination of the suggested collapse during Egypt’s New Kingdom is also plagued with predispositions and altering theories. Some arguments blame an adulteration of morals leading to the decline of complex traditional and religious beliefs. Others solely blame an environmental crisis capable of facilitating an economic crisis large enough to annihilate financial solidity for the entire kingdom. I argue it was not any one factor that led to the dissension of Egypt’s New Kingdom, but many. The New Kingdom collapse was the result of hostile neighbors, failing trade, political corruption,

Mesopotamia's geography made them vulnerable to attack which lead them to their downfall, unlike egypt which was protected by

The four empires of mesopotamia all had a bright future but could not all reign at the same time, so war came upon them and destroyed what they built. All of the civilizations that lived in mesopotamia rose and fell like the flaming sun.

I would like to start with the fact that I was not the kind of person who like to research or even study any kind of history, but since it was required, here I am ended up in this History class learning about civilization. The good thing is all the material that I learned really stimulate the curiosity side of my mind that pushed me to study more how civilization ended, so I chose this book by Eric H. Cline, which I thing is one amazing source of information. Although I googled maybe hundreds of words on each page I went through, I learned a lot about all causes that contributes to the end of the Late Bronze Age in eastern Mediterranean.

empires may have been destroyed by their environment, the largest and most powerful empires were

The Roman Empire could be said as the greatest civilization of all time. It stretched from England to Nothern Africa to the Middle East; moreover, the Romans were skilled in culture, art, military, and politics and their inventions are still used to this day. For example, the Romans invented domes, arches, and vaults that can be seen in archietecture today. Their language, Latin, is used in half of English words. How did an empire so vast and great vanish? There are many factors that lead to the fall of Rome, but the main cause of Rome’s decline is because of social issues such as decrease in moral and traditional values and religion.

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.

Have you ever went to a location and looked at the environment? Could you automatically tell by the surrounds what type of social class or government it fallen into? Have you ever been to an unknown discovery? Have you ever wondered where the earliest Indian civilizations emerged from? Did you ever know why the “Nile River Valley,” or, “Indus River Valley,” are very important to civilization?