If we know one thing, it's that history is a story written by the winner... or more accurately, people with an axe to grind. Great article, Joseph. I didn't know this.
Thanks, Kyle! I appreciate that. I am trying. I really like to find these 'common knowledge' stories and the details are quite a bit more complicated! Fun!
People love the idea of a single catastrophe because it lets everyone else off the hook. Slow decline is much more damning.
One big event is easier to explain, too. A big complex multi-faceted decline over 400 years is harder to put into a sentence.
If we know one thing, it's that history is a story written by the winner... or more accurately, people with an axe to grind. Great article, Joseph. I didn't know this.
Thanks, Kyle! I appreciate that. I am trying. I really like to find these 'common knowledge' stories and the details are quite a bit more complicated! Fun!
"The Library of Alexandria didn’t die in a fire. It faded. Papyrus has an expiration date. Civilizations do too."
That hits hard... what can a civilization do to everlast?
Should it stick to its traditions or allow progressiveness?
What must never change?
What must change to survive?