It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? by Scott A J Johnson
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Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why they offer only partial explanations of the failure of past civilizations. This engaging book offers a new theory of collapse, that of social hubris. Through an examination of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, Maya, Inca, and Aztec societies, Johnson persuasively argues that hubris blinded many ancient peoples...
Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? by Scott A J Johnson is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.
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