01-08-2020, 11:20 AM
(01-08-2020, 10:21 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: There will always be coincidences. Besides, which orthography is correct? As an example, the pair of sounds sh-ch in Khrushchev as transcribed in English is seven letters in German (schtsch), five in French (chtch), four in Polish (szcz), three in Catalan (xtx) or Hungarian (scs), two in Czech or Croatian (sorry -- no hacek), or one in Russian.
The fall of empires of any kind usually relate internal rot that the elites fail to recognize but that the common people know all too well and enemy powers discover to their surprise, but bring irredeemable ruin. Defeated powers can emerge from the ashes if people want them to revive; people did nothing to revive the Roman Empire.
I don't understand your historical tarot.
I don't understand it at all either, but where the title is concerned, the fall of cities is often a result of social and economic change. Here in the US Detroit is no doubt the most obvious example of this. Could apply to smaller cities as well, such as Gary, IN. The latter being an example of small cities with all the big city problems.
