Sublime

As recipients of US foreign aid, it was in their best interest to appear to be supporting the US in its war effort.

In our view, the key to understanding how societies evolve is to understand factors that determine the costs and rewards of employing violence. Every human society, from the hunting band to the empire, has been informed by the interactions of megapolitical factors that set the prevailing version of the “laws of nature.”

In fact, what jumps out from the materials in the Rapanu and Urtenu archives is the tremendous amount of international interconnection that apparently still existed in the Eastern Mediterranean even at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Moreover, it is clear from the few texts published from the Urtenu archive that these international connections cont

Jacobs’s critics find that her analogies between economic networks, cities, and ecosystems run too close to biology and that she falls short of emphasizing the important role of human agency, intentionality, or the social institutions that support innovation.

Thus, Greenland history conveys the message that, even in a harsh environment, collapse isn’t inevitable but depends on a society’s choices.

A third consideration is hostile neighbors.

Americans spent an incredible amount of money to destroy generations of wealth, buildings of such magnificence that we could not recreate them today if we desired to.

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