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In my eyes, the power of the individual is often underestimated. Individuals propagate a system, indivduals can turn neutral to a system, or long for its destru
by WillReplyfFood 9y ago
In my eyes, the power of the individual is often underestimated. Individuals propagate a system, indivduals can turn neutral to a system, or long for its destruction. Beyond a certain tipping point, small men, refusing to carry wheat and may the world burn anyway, shatter empires.
- mcguire 9y agoOne theory of the late Bronze Age collapse I've heard is that great numbers of peasant types ran off to avoid governmental pressures and became nomads and raiders that eventually attacked and took down the large states. I'm not sure how much weight I would put into it, but one story I've heard seems pretty solid: The Philistines (of biblical fame) were Mycenaean Greeks who attempted to attack and settle in Egypt, and who were in turn resettled on or near the Egyptian border with the Levant.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoEh, the palaestinians where greeks once?