The Rise & Fall of Civilizations

The Rise & Fall of Civilizations

This is to study Civilizations of Man since inception and its evolution with a holistic view.

Man first builds his tools conquers the immediate surrounding environment. Some of them co-operate for common good and some fight. Mostly over ages as man perfects his machine, there is a dominant man who ends up ruling and destroying most of the other men. This leads to a dictatorship.

Then the same man got into philosophy, art, science and technology. He then gets too comfortable in his seat, and wanders off into  lust or drugs. If the man follows philosophy, art, science and technology, there is further increase in the civilization. If the man falls to lust n drugs, his rule ceases to exist.

The environment has taken a beating and most of the people are without emotions due to War. So a sought of dark age follows where everything is calm and there is no evolution or advance of man in civilization or technology.

Due to the lack of activity, man cools off and so the environment gets to heal itself. The environment then repairs all the damage (it might take centuries) and man starts taking emotion from the Nature. And then the story starts again. The Rise of Man with another promise of technology and subsequent wars and cooling off.

Whether to choose Peace or War is up to us, and this decides where our Civilization is headed. And this should dictate technology and the rise of man too. And the rise and fall of Civilizations.

Case Study

The Rise of England in the 17th century made it the sole superpower in the World. It started raging war against the World instead of pursuing art. It met initial success with conquering at least 1/4 of the Worlds population and the rest at its mercy. However with the destruction of Nature and Man, its power soon fizzled out in the 19th century with other countries like Germany taking the lead. It currently is combed into its country with huge cost of war and destruction of Mankind & Nature.
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Caution: This might be all theory

Tags: British Empire, Civilization, England, Society