A Look At How Disintegrating Empires Cause Calamity For Centuries
When empires fall, they fall hard
When empires grow frail and sick outside elements begin to lick their chops. Seeing a hegemon decline in power always produces opportunities for upstart observers to take their piece of the pie. It is a natural cycle that has been repeated over and over throughout human history.
Historians and hobbyists love to pick through the bones of old empires to dissect exactly what happened. Why did they fall? What caused the initial rot that eventually led to their demise? Volumes and volumes of text have been written on the subject. But one of the themes that often gets left out is how disastrous the collapse of empires truly can be.
When empires fall, it causes decades, sometimes centuries, of disfunction that reverberate throughout history. Here is a look at three empires that fell and left smoking craters in their wake.
The Roman Empire
The fall of the Roman Empire is one of those events that has been picked over and gone through over and over again. Each generation rekindles its own fascination with the ruins of Rome. And that is because when Rome fell, it left a mess behind.
