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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by Swizec on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:44PM (#27851435)
That is supposedly what happened with Rome. A very modern society (by our standards) was replaced by barbarians (by our standards). Those barbarians eventually developed a lot of the same social and political structures as Rome.

It was a regression from a unified pan-continent society to isolated tribes. How advanced those tribes were is hard to say because most didn’t write things down.

As far as I know what followed Rome was a period of unrest and lessened commerce. From that aspect at least it was “worse”.

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by username90 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:31PM (#27852165)
And it took over a thousand years for a city larger than Rome to appear again anywhere in the world. Sometimes things just crash and nothing replaces it.
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