why do certain civilizations disappear?did they become extinct or just become plain stupid?

Answer 1

famine typically does a very thorough job

Answer 2

Greed. Look what the Spanish did to all the vast south american cultures. Look what us whities did to North american native cultures. Not that I'm saying that one culture is worse than another. Every culture has been either invaded or done the invading at one point or another throughout history. No culture is perfect. I'm originally from England and afew hundred years ago it was the vikings that invaded us. Before that it was the Romans only to be stopped at Hadrians wall by the Scottish. But conversely it was the English that did the invading into Scotland and Ireland at differnt times. Then there are also very benevolent things that cultures can do. For example, it was the British that helped to abolish the slave trade on the Ivory coast. I only used England as an example of all three types of events. Every culture is capable or has done similar things throughtout history.

Most of these types of things are done now with money. Empires can be built, destroyed or controled by any other country with the right control of resources.

Answer 3

They don't really disappear or go extinct. The Maya, who everyone says "vanished" actually just abandoned their cities due to drought and warfare--there are millions of Maya still around in Mexico and Guatemala.
Even if a city is over-run by the enemy in war, some will be taken as slaves and live on that way. Except in rare, creepy cases like Roanoke, Virginia, that's what usually happens.

Answer 4

A lot of the ancient civilizations exhausted there natural resources by building excessive idols and temples.Other cultures worshiped animals and were forbidden to eat them, as a result they overran the land eating up the vegetation and brought on disease. Another cause may be Homosexuality, its no coincidence many of the great civilizations started deteriorating at the peak of there brilliance about the same time as their moral perversion became the norm or majority.

Answer 5

Usually neither. They blend into newer civilizations. It even happens in modern times. The slave holding South, for example, no longer exists as a civilization, but is incorporated into our current one, with both good and bad properties borrowed from the old.

There's a few island civilizations (like on Easter Island) that literally went extinct. But most move on.

Answer 6

In my senile haze I seem to remember that a tribe in Terra Del Fuego became extinct because their religion prohibited them from wearing clothing adequate to survive. The natives of the Easter Islands, the place where they erected great stone heads, became extinct because they burned up all their fire wood.
We may become extinct because Christians say there is no global warning and put bumper stickers on their SUVs bragging that they are contributing to global warming.
Religion may cause the species to become extinct.

Answer 7

whats so intelligent about civilization? we were made to live in the woods.
they become extinct because of natural disasters and because their people develope mental illness because too many of them live too close together.
the individuals gradually become more and more violent until the whole society becomes more and more violent. this goes for individual civilization and world civilization. the natural world their ancestors knew becomes a zoo made for people. this is not a natural human envirnment and isn't healthy for the individual mind or the collective mind.

Answer 8

Depends on the civilization some were swallowed by other civilization some were destroyed by catastrophic natural disasters ..what civilization in particular were you interested in?

Answer 9

well, most civilizations evolve or get conquered and absorbed into another culture. granted some have died out, but i cant think of any due to sheer stupidity. i mean, the fall of rome was pretty much a testament to idiocy, but they didnt die out. i dont know that you can definatively say that any one culture has died out. well, maybe the minoans. but that was a volcanic eruption/ earthquake, and your escape options are pretty limited on a small island.

Answer 10

Some reason whether natural, political, or social destroys that civilization's ability to sustain themeselves and preserve their way of life or culture. Also their history through one reason or another has faded.

Answer 11

its usually due to war, in the old days when certain countries won they would kill the men and take the rest of everyone into slavery for that country, or wipped out from natural disasters like the volcano in pompeii