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What is more interesting is whether we can identify cases where clear civilisational collapse was arrested or reversed by change of strategy by the leadership o
by hunglee2 4y ago
What is more interesting is whether we can identify cases where clear civilisational collapse was arrested or reversed by change of strategy by the leadership of that civilisation. Perhaps Komnenian restoration in 11th century Byzantium or maybe Tang dynasty China
- alldayeveryday 4y agoWeimar Germany.
- paganel 4y agoI'd say even the Roman Empire itself did a pretty good job with Diocletian and his reforms, it gave them at least another 100 years (most of the 4th century CE). The Notitia Dignitatum [1] (assembled/written sometime in the late 4th century) doesn't look like it depicts a collapsing administration/society. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notitia_Dignitatum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notitia_Dignitatum
- hunglee2 4y agoyes indeed, perhaps the famous example