Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

THE SEVEN AGES OF WESTERN EURASIA
By @Peter_Nimitz
See https://t.co/dQW3wOYYyo

I would take a different position on the end given the age of sail thru the world wars, but otherwise this is a great read.

Peter’s Timeline:
First Age 9700-8300 BC – permanent revival of agriculture
First Fall 8300 BC – colder climate caused famine
Second Age 8300-6200 BC – animal domestication
Second Fall 6200 BC – floods around the world
Third Age 6200-4400 BC – hydrology and irrigation, the mixing in the Middle East
Third Fall 4400 BC – hunter-gatherer resurgence in Europe and North Africa
Fourth Age 4400-3000 BC – Copper and urbanization
Fourth Fall 3000 BC – plague and Indo-European conquests
Fifth Age 3000-800 BC – Bronze and globalization
Fifth Fall 1200 BC – Bronze Age Collapse
Sixth Age 800 BC-800 AD – Iron, Classical Age, and Late Antiquity
Sixth Fall – Fall of the Roman Empire, Avars, spread of Islam and Christianity
Seventh Age 800 AD-present
Seventh Fall ???? AD – bioerror? nuclear war? robot insurrection?
Eighth Age ???? AD – ????

No. I just promote him because I follow the principle that everything is reducible to demographics and location. And he has single handedly converted the myth of endless growth, overpopulation, and resource extraction to the geostrategic consequences of the opposite.
So effectively I see him, like me, arguing from first principles. And I see him as explaining and popularizing my predictions, and justifying my work on legal, constitutional and policy reforms. Even though some of what I say is painful, the time for comforting illusions has passed, and we may need to take responsibility for our posterity or fail to have one.

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