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Even the losers - we borrow many ideas from plenty of failed civilizations.

• Ensorceled 4y ago
  And many ideas are also simply lost, history is full of the ebb and flow of advancement as civilizations are destroyed and plundered.
  • juve1996 4y ago
    Despite these catastrophic civilization collapses, civilizations have grown increasingly more advanced despite a localized minimum. The need to wage war to defend or gain resources seems like a major driver of complexity. To maintain a military it needs equipped and fed, requiring large supply chains, and hence, more complexity. If you didn't need to defend your food stores, you wouldn't need such complexity.