"A 99-per-cent view of history suggests that empires and great power structures were rarely good for their subjects, and that their disappearance doesn’t create general chaos, but simply a battle of the few to regain power. Migration was not a horrible thing: it helped us navigate the disasters and collapses of the past. History isn’t a story of progress due to hierarchy and technology. And not all collapses need to be lamented with tragic poems." https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays

Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

"All this helps to explain why the adoption of agriculture and states were an enormous blow to human health. Not only did human height shrink but bones got weaker, teeth filled with more holes, and new infectious diseases such as influenza and the plague began as people were crammed together with animals. Men today are on average still shorter than their ancestors during the stateless ice age (or at least the male skeletons we’ve found in Europe)." https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays

Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

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