Why Do Empires Decline
Why do Empires decline and fall?
During thousands of years, human history had known the existence of several empires. While some still question why do Empires decline and fall, some historians put their time and energy on other topics such as how, for instance, empires rise and in some cases subsidize for so long. Considering the fact that empires and therefore their decline and destruction are part of the natural process of human history, same way as the end of the dinosaurs which was inevitable, one can question what actually makes an empire, and what is needed to make it subsidize or even participate in its fall?
‘’The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be …show more content…
while Rome had decreased, and although, the Byzantines spoke Greek and Latin, they considered themselves Romans, but they also followed a different form of Christianity. In the west there was a pope (the head of the roman catholic church), and in the east there was a patriarch, and ever since the fall of Rome, there has been a lot of tension in western Europe between pope and kings. This dramatic political change is severely criticized by Burke for instance in his pamphlet where he critics the french revolution and the dangers of radical political change. Now Burke was opposed to “legitimate governments” that evolved over time. Instead if one could say that society was a contact, for Burke, it was a contract between the living, the dead and those yet to be born, by which he meant that the current generation, that is to say those who are alive today, have an obligation to preserve the best of the wisdom from past generations and keep them for future generations. That is to say, traditions are the best way to preserve the longevity of a government or empire, the foundations must be by all means protected and
During thousands of years, human history had known the existence of several empires. While some still question why do Empires decline and fall, some historians put their time and energy on other topics such as how, for instance, empires rise and in some cases subsidize for so long. Considering the fact that empires and therefore their decline and destruction are part of the natural process of human history, same way as the end of the dinosaurs which was inevitable, one can question what actually makes an empire, and what is needed to make it subsidize or even participate in its fall?
‘’The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be …show more content…
while Rome had decreased, and although, the Byzantines spoke Greek and Latin, they considered themselves Romans, but they also followed a different form of Christianity. In the west there was a pope (the head of the roman catholic church), and in the east there was a patriarch, and ever since the fall of Rome, there has been a lot of tension in western Europe between pope and kings. This dramatic political change is severely criticized by Burke for instance in his pamphlet where he critics the french revolution and the dangers of radical political change. Now Burke was opposed to “legitimate governments” that evolved over time. Instead if one could say that society was a contact, for Burke, it was a contract between the living, the dead and those yet to be born, by which he meant that the current generation, that is to say those who are alive today, have an obligation to preserve the best of the wisdom from past generations and keep them for future generations. That is to say, traditions are the best way to preserve the longevity of a government or empire, the foundations must be by all means protected and