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Tsonis, A. A., K. L. Swanson, G. Sugihara, and P. A. Tsonis. "Climate change and the demise of Minoan civilization." Climate of the Past 6, no. 4 (2010): 525–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-525-2010.

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Abstract. Climate change has been implicated in the success and downfall of several ancient civilizations. Here we present a synthesis of historical, climatic, and geological evidence that supports the hypothesis that climate change may have been responsible for the slow demise of Minoan civilization. Using proxy ENSO and precipitation reconstruction data in the period 1650–1980 we present empirical and quantitative evidence that El Nino causes drier conditions in the area of Crete. This result is supported by modern data analysis as well as by model simulations. Though not very strong, the EN
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Tsonis, A. A., K. L. Swanson, G. Sugihara, and P. A. Tsonis. "Climate change and the demise of Minoan civilization." Climate of the Past Discussions 6, no. 3 (2010): 801–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-6-801-2010.

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Abstract. Climate change has been implicated in the success and downfall of several ancient civilizations. Here we present a synthesis of historical, climatic, and geological evidence that supports the hypothesis that climate change may have been responsible for the slow demise of Minoan civilization. Using proxy ENSO and precipitation reconstruction data in the period 1650–1980 we present empirical and quantitative evidence that El Niño causes drier conditions in the area of Crete. This result is supported by modern data analysis as well as by model simulations. Though not very strong, the EN
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Nyman, Rickard, Paul Ormerod, and R. Alexander Bentley. "A Simple Model of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations." Entropy 25, no. 9 (2023): 1298. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091298.

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The literature on the fall of civilizations spans from the archaeology of early state societies to the history of the 20th century. Explanations for the fall of civilizations abound, from general extrinsic causes (drought, warfare) to general intrinsic causes (intergroup competition, socioeconomic inequality, collapse of trade networks) and combinations of these, to case-specific explanations for the specific demise of early state societies. Here, we focus on ancient civilizations, which archaeologists typically define by a set of characteristics including hierarchical organization, standardiz
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Prantzos, N. "A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 3 (2020): 3464–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa512.

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ABSTRACT In evaluating the number of technological civilizations N in the Galaxy through the Drake formula, emphasis is mostly put on the astrophysical and biotechnological factors describing the emergence of a civilization and much less on its the lifetime, which is intimately related to its demise. It is argued here that this factor is in fact the most important regarding the practical implications of the Drake formula, because it determines the maximal extent of the ‘sphere of influence’ of any technological civilization. The Fermi paradox is studied in the terms of a simplified version of
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Sargentis, G. Fivos, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Andreas Angelakis, John Christy, and Anastasios A. Tsonis. "Environmental Determinism vs. Social Dynamics: Prehistorical and Historical Examples." World 3, no. 2 (2022): 357–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world3020020.

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Environmental determinism is often used to explain past social collapses and to predict the future of modern human societies. We assess the availability of natural resources and the resulting carrying capacity (a basic concept of environmental determinism) through a toy model based on Hurst–Kolmogorov dynamics. We also highlight the role of social cohesion, and we evaluate it from an entropic viewpoint. Furthermore, we make the case that, when it comes to the demise of civilizations, while environmental influences may be in the mix, social dynamics is the main driver behind their decline and e
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Gorokhovich, Yuri, Larry Mays, and Lee Ullmann. "A survey of ancient Minoan water technologies." Water Supply 11, no. 4 (2011): 388–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2011.072.

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A survey is presented of water technologies used by the ancient Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age. This survey considers eleven Minoan settlements on the eastern part of Crete and is based upon a field assessment of the water technologies. While water systems had a monumental role in the life of the Minoans there has been little understanding of these ancient systems. Partially this can be explained by the multiple levels of modifications to the original structures since the demise of the Minoan civilization. In addition, post-excavation activities on archaeological sites obscure and m
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Kudryashov, Igor' Vasil'evich. "Gleb Uspensky on the national spirituality (based on the material of the cycle “Sketches of the Transitional Period”." Litera, no. 8 (August 2020): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2020.8.33658.

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Based on Gleb Uspensky’s cycle “Sketches of the Transitional Period”, this article analyzes the ethical-philosophical views of the writer upon national spirituality, Russian world and its future. Uspensky believed that the great mission of Russia consists in the desire to become a unifying spiritual center for the entire world civilization. However, due to its location in-between the West and the East. Russia is spiritually dying, and along with it in the global chaos and hostility of Western and Eastern civilizations, dies all of humanity. Russia’s posi
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Draper, Richard D. "Hubris and Atē: A Latter-day Warning from the Book of Mormon." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (1992-2007) 3, no. 2 (1994): 12–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44758742.

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Abstract Civilizations fall due to complex pressures, but the Book of Mormon points to one sin which assisted if not drove the demise of both the Nephite and Jaredite peoples. This sin was pride. This essay ties pride to the Old World concepts of hubris and atē as a means of revealing the dynamic nature of this sin and exploring its deadly character. It shows that pride leads to hubris, the attempt by individuals and nations to become a law unto themselves, and that the consequence of hubris is atē, a spiritual blindness that impels the individual or society toward its doom. The paper warns
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Chi, Cheng-Jau. "Whether Improved Socioeconomic Development Sees a Shift Towards Monogamous Mating Strategies." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 8, no. 1 (2023): 143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230075.

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From the early prehistoric civilizations to the modern world, marriage practices have undergone tremendous changes. Changing environments and social perceptions have contributed greatly to how people choose to marry. This paper will investigate whether changes in socioeconomic factors such as the need to survive and religion has influenced the spread and demise of monogamous and polygynous marriages from the hunter-gatherer era to the modern day. Also investigated will be the increasing prevalence of socially imposed monogamy displacing ecologically imposed monogamy. Through research, it has b
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Gutorov, Vladimir A., Alexander A. Shirinyants, and Andrei Yu Shutov. "Two civilizations: the relations of Russia and Western Europe at the beginning of the 21st century." Baltic Region 10, no. 4 (2018): 132–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2018-4-9.

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The challenges of building relations between two different civilizations, which Samuel Huntington and Lev Gumilev wrote about, are currently becoming more obvious due to the cardinal geopolitical and geoeconomic changes that have taken place since the demise the USSR and the world socialist system. Today, in the West, as if in contrast to the famous project by Charles de Gaulle —“Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals”, an extremely negative image of Russia is being formed. Western ideologists stick to the axiom according to which despotism and slavery, allegedly being the basis of Russia's int
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Demise of civilizations"

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Hohol, Kateryna Vyacheslavivna, and Катерина В’ячеславівна Гоголь. "Islam as a civilizational factor of Europe`s future." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/51641.

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1.Культурно-цивілізаційний простір Європи і Україна: особливості становлення та сучасні тенденції розвитку: колективна монографія / керівник авторського колективу і науковий редактор − А. І. Кудряченко // Інститут європейських досліджень НАН України. − К. : Університет «Україна», 2010. − 405 с. − [Електронний ресурс]. − Режим доступу: http://elibrary.ivinas.gov.ua/67/1/ cultprostir.pdf 2. Тойнбі А. Дж. Дослідження історії / А. Дж. Тойнбі. – К.: Основи, 2004. – 615 с. 3. Huntington S. The Clash of Civilizations And the remaking of World Order –[Електронний ресурс]. − Режим доступу:
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Hannikainen, Mikael. "Demise of Classic Maya Civilization : a theoretical approach." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1043.

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Kollapsen av den klassiska Mayakulturen under sen 700- till sen 900-tal e.Kr. har förbluffat forskare ända sedan studier av Mayakulturen påbörjades på 1840-talet. Både arkeologer och antropologer som epigrafiker eller klimatforskare har arbetat med att lösa gåtan av hur ett kulturellt vidsträckt samhälle kunde kollapsa utan någon klar förklaring. Civilisationen som än idag talar till oss genom sina kolossala pyramider och tempel, inskriptioner och den vetenskapliga kunskapen som ansetts outförbara utan moderna instrument. Dock har inte kollapsen varit ett direkt fokus i Mayastudier sedan forsk
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Walsh, David. "Development, decline and demise : the cult of Mithras ca. AD 270-430." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/56837/.

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This thesis provides an overview of the cult of Mithras from the late third to early fifth centuries across the entire Roman world. It seeks to illustrate what developments occurred in the cult during this period and how it subsequently came to an end. In doing so, it elucidates alterations in the environment and architecture of mithraea, the patrons and adherents of the cult, and Mithraic ritual practices. It demonstrates that by the fourth century the cult of Mithras had become increasingly localised, with a significant degree of variation evident among different Mithraic communities. Furthe
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Barraclough, Alexa K. "The origins, rise, and demise of mummification in ancient Egypt." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2001. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/220.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>History
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Books on the topic "Demise of civilizations"

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Thurman, Kevin. Voyage in noise: Warren Ellis and the demise of western civilization. Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, 2013.

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K, Asante Molefi. The painful demise of eurocentrism: An afrocentric response to critics. Africa World, 1999.

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Hanson, Victor Davis. Who killed Homer?: The demise of classical education and the recovery of Greek wisdom. Free Press, 1998.

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Hanson, Victor Davis. Who killed Homer?: The demise of classical education and the recovery of Greek wisdom. University of California Press, 2000.

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Fall of Greece: Demise of a Mighty Civilization. Independently Published, 2020.

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Millett, David. Faith-Based Thinking: And the Demise of Civilization. Independently Published, 2019.

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Axler, James. Gaia's Demise. Gold Eagle, 1999.

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Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization. Felibri.com, 2009.

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Dusty Sandals: The Demise of the Mayan and Anasazi Civilization. Outskirts Press, Incorporated, 2009.

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The "Dead Cities" of Northern Syria and their demise. Ludwig, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "Demise of civilizations"

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Yasuda, Yoshinori, Hiroo Nasu, Toshiyuki Fujiki, et al. "Climate Deterioration and Angkor’s Demise." In Water Civilization. Springer Japan, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54111-0_10.

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Kendall, Ann. "Applied Archaeology in the Andes: The Contribution of Pre-Hispanic Agricultural Terracing to Environmental and Rural Development Strategies." In Humans and the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0018.

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Patterns of civilization in the Central Andes can be seen to have fluctuated over the last 5,000 years in relation to climate changes. Starting with the first American civilization at Caral, on the Peruvian coast, other impressive coastal centres and cultural areas followed and subsequently the highland cultural areas and civilizations took over in what now seems to have been at least partly a response to periods of climate changes. While the early coastal environment offered economic advantages of maritime resources and made it easy to adapt and benefit from the early arrival of imported cult
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Price, T. Douglas. "Centers of Power, Weapons of Iron." In Europe before Rome. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199914708.003.0009.

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The introduction of iron after 1000 BC brought new tools and weapons to Europe. Smelting technology and higher furnace temperatures were likely the key to iron production, which is generally thought to have originated in Anatolia around 1400 BC among the Hittites, but there are a few earlier examples of iron artifacts as old as 2300 BC in Turkey. Iron produced sharper, more readily available implements and was in great demand. In contrast to copper and tin, whose sources were limited, iron was found in a variety of forms in many places across the continent. Veins of iron ore were exploited in
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Buchwald, Jed Z., and Mordechai Feingold. "The Demise of Chronology." In Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154787.003.0012.

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This chapter continues the discussion of critique’s of Isaac Newton’s The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms. Among these was by Arthur Bedford, whose main objection to Newton’s work, even more than its violation of the scriptural account of the peopling of the earth, was Newton’s pinpointing the beginnings of Greek idolatry in King David’s time, with Ceres allegedly the first to be worshipped as a deity. In so doing, Bedford charged, Newton ignored the extensive evidence furnished by Scripture regarding the pervasiveness of idolatry ever since Nimrod’s day. Here Bedford resorted to distortion, fo
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"12. The Demise of Chronology." In Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400845187.381.

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Kline, Morris. "The Demise of the Greek World." In Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061352.003.0008.

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Abstract Though the Alexandrian Greek civilization lasted until A.D. 640, when it was finally destroyed by the Mohammedans, it is apparent, from its decreasing productiveness, that the civilization was already declining in the early centuries of the Christian era. Before investigating the reasons for the decline, we shall summarize the achievements and deficiencies of Greek mathematics and note the problems it left for subsequent generations. The Greeks accomplished so much, and the pursuit of mathematics when taken over by the Europeans, after minor interpolations by the Hindus and Arabs, was
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Shrestha, Nanda, and Martin Lewis. "Asian Geography." In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0053.

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A massive continent, stretching from Turkey and the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and Red Seas to the Pacific, from the Indian Ocean to the vast desert of Mongolia right through the towering Himalayas and the plateau of Tibet, Asia is a colossal geographic collage. One can find in Asia virtually every form of landscape, both real and imagined, including James Hilton’s (1933) Shangri-La, planted in the imaginative geography of Western travelers and tourists (also see Bishop 1989). As the cradle of three of the world’s early civilizations, Asia is a magnificent tapestry of cultural diversi
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Göçek, Fatma Müge. "“Civilization,” Ottoman Intellectuals, and Western Ideas: Polarization Within the Bourgeoisie." In Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195099256.003.0005.

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Woodward, Jamie. "Editorial Introduction." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0028.

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Catastrophic earthquakes, explosive volcanic eruptions, and devastating storms and floods are intimately bound up within the history and mythology of the Mediterranean world. It is a key region for the study of natural hazards because it offers unrivalled access to long records of hazard occurrence and impact through documentary, archaeological and geological archives. Early texts and archaeological data have provided unique insights into the nature and impact of past eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other hazards. Notable events were carefully documented in Antiquity and the archaeologic
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Daunton, Martin. "The Rise and Demise of the Gold Standard." In Wealth and Welfare. Oxford University PressOxford, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198732099.003.0008.

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Abstract In 1865, R. H. Patterson, a leading financial journalist, saw gold as a sign of civilization and international peace, complementing free trade in a vision of Cobdenite peace and prosperity. The convertibility of bank notes into gold imposed morality and discipline on businessmen and on the government. The discipline prevented militaristic ministers from printing notes to wage war; and it limited speculation by businessmen by preventing over-expansion of credit. Gold was a measure of intrinsic value which helped resolve difficulties in measuring value in a highly commercialized capital
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