“Q: Didn’t Rome do well as an Empire?”– Rome did well as an Empire for just und

–“Q: Didn’t Rome do well as an Empire?”–

Rome did well as an Empire for just under 200 yrs, from 27BC to the Antonine plague from 165AD to the reign of Commodus in 180 AD, then failing with the Imperial Crisis AD 235–284AD, and succumbing to Christianity and barbarians from 406 to collapse in 476AD, and eradication by the Justinian Plague in 541–549 AD, Which is one of the worst periods in human history.

America did well for just over 140 so far.

While the american separation from england, and the separation of eastern and western empires were caused in no small part by the slow pre-industrial speed of communication. And while climate and migrations paid a price in rome. We no longer have a communication problem, even if we do have a migration and reproduction problem.

But as I’ve stated many times, there is a vulnerability to the group strategy of western civilization that feeds overexpansion and genetic decline that reverses the natural selection of western civ’s aristocratic demand for maximizing responsibility to increase our numbers, and decrease our cost of commons.

IQ is necessary for western empires.

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