Failure In A Civilization

All throughout history and continuing in today’s world, there have always been and always will be an infinite number of ways a civilization can fail, succeed, and evolve. Failure is an inevitable outcome for a civilization, whether sooner or later. Causes of failure in a civilization may be famine, a lack of resources, or over extension, which has occurred multiple times through history, whether it be Napoleon freezing to death with his army after they got stuck in mud, or the leader of a civilization simply trying to manage and pursue too many things at once. It always ends up being that the leader of a civilization invests too much time, effort and or resources into risky ideas which fail, and it ends up being too late, or there is no way …show more content…
Another way a civilization can begin to succeed is by integrating the culture of others into theirs’, such as the Europeans, who at the time didn’t bathe, then took on the Middle-Eastern ways of bathing bathing quite frequently, after the Crusades. The first way a country may proceed to evolve could be by learning from their own mistakes as a civilization, as well as from the mistakes of others, such as our founding fathers did in order to escape the monarchy, and they branched off, formed a democracy, and wrote the constitution. Another way a civilization may evolve is through revolution and rebellion, such as the American revolution. An additional part of evolution for all civilizations is making technological advances such as plumbing or sanitation, because if a civilization does not advance and improve its technology with the growth of its people and the world around them, they will surely decline and begin to fail. The civilization of Ancient Egypt, however, both succeeded, evolved, and …show more content…
Their ability to adapt and utilize the timed flooding of the Nile River was essential to their success and allowed it so that they could use their intricate irrigation system, and plentiful fertile soil for farming, which at the time “fueled social development and culture” (“”). Ancient Egypt also was a tremendously strong center of trade. Not only was trade a very efficient way of spreading the Ancient Egyptian culture, agricultural, textile, and luxury trade were all very essential contributing factors to the economy. In addition, trade brought lots of profit, exported goods such as stone vases, linen, papyrus, gold, hide and ropes, and imported lots of raw materials like livestock, metals and valuable minerals from Syria and