Why the West Rules ~ For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris

Author:Ian Morris [Morris, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780312611699
Amazon: 0312611692
Publisher: Profile Books UK
Published: 2010-11-25T08:00:00+00:00

Others favored more traditional remedies such as massacring Jews, even though (as one of the popes pointed out in 1348) Jews were dying as fast as Christians. But nothing worked, and social development in the Western core around the Mediterranean fell as fast in the great plague delivered by the Second Old World Exchange as it had done during the plagues delivered by the First. No wonder the end seemed nigh.

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History looked to be repeating itself. In the first century CE Western social development had risen to a hard ceiling around forty-three points, strained against it, and set off a centuries-long, Old World–wide collapse. Eleven hundred years later, Eastern social development rose to the same level and set off similar disasters. Had von Däniken’s aliens from outer space been orbiting Earth again in 1350 they might well have concluded that human history was locked in a series of boom-and-bust cycles, bouncing against an unbreakable hard ceiling.

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