Download This PaperThe Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
15 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2009
Date Written: 2005
Abstract
Greece between 1500 and 500 BC is one of the best known examples of the phenomenon of the regeneration of complex society after a collapse. I review 10 core dimensions of this process (urbanism, tax and rent, monuments, elite power, informationrecording systems, trade, crafts, military power, scale, and standards of living), and suggest that punctuated equilibrium models accommodate the data better than gradualist interpretations.
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Morris, Ian Peter, The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Society in Greece, 1500-500 BC (2005). Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Paper No. 120510, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1426834 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1426834
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