Do you know what caused the downfall of every Great Civilization?

Question

The MOCKERS! Who made everyone think their country, their leaders, thier lives, their future, and everything else was a JOKE! And they let themselves
go to HELL!

THE WATCHER

Answer 1

Self-Worship instead of God.

Answer 2

Have you ever played Sim City? Where you make a city and you're doing so good but then the city reaches such a size and everything implodes no matter what you do and you can't save it as it collapses in on itself!

Same deal. Except you don't get tarred and feathered for being a leader and only lose the game.

Answer 3

Liberalism, which inexorably increased taxation while it forbade the control and destruction of the criminal element. The public found it nessesary to retreat into "tribes" for protection. Without the support of the public the rulers were without power and their system collapsed. Sound familiar. By the way, it's no big mystery to those in power, it's a well known perpetual cycle.

Answer 4

The mockers? HAH! People, this is an excellent example. Correlation is NOT causation. The only reason the mockets exist is because the great civilizations are already IN a downfall. Jon Stewart only makes fun of the problems we already have, he doesn't go out of his way to create them.

Next time, check your data better.

Answer 5

rofl. Ok, you just proved you don't know a thing about history.

No, what caused the downfall of every great nation ever is arrogance. Guess which country is guilty of that the worst at this moment in time.....

Answer 6

Bureaucracy. As civilizations grow, they become burdened by the system of administration. People become disheartened by the expense of running their system and the consequent reliance on the same people (what you could call the "middle class" or the craftsmen and yeoman class) to keep things running along "as usual." To a small degree, conquest and expansion revitalized many of the early great societies, but the administration of new lands soon caught up to the "system," further burdening the aforementioned classes with expenses of mainstreaming the newly conquered areas. Resistance to change and to streamlining government by entrenched officials of an entrenched establishment added to expenses of administration and diminished returns from government. As costs of government escalate, people jettison personal responsibility. The freedoms and progress they get from self-reliance and initiative become replaced with the burdens and expense of taxes to support a system grown fat, lazy, and unresponsive to the needs of the people and of the society, culture, and civilization. In the days of the early Roman Empire (following the collapse of the republic), laws had to be passed requiring that people marry and that sons follow the occupations followed by their fathers. As our own burdens from government grow, we limit the size of our own families and depend on immigration of peoples often hostile to our own culture to fill the difference. Thus, we are dilluting our cultural values and insuring our own eventual downfall, because a society that will not value itself at home will not value its standards elsewhere. Which of our ancestors would not have scoffed at notions such as twenty five to fifty percent of one's own income paid in taxes! (We accept such in our own so-called free society as if it is merely the cost of "freedom" and getting from day to day.)
Too, great societies have often outstripped the productive capacity of their homelands; thus, the urge to expand. The Maya (who certainly did not decline due to Christianity!) declined due to the pressures of overpopulation and fighting among the city-states of the culture. The result was a decline in the area of origin, and a migration to the Yucatan. Had a true empire existed, the area might have been unified and expanded by conquest and growth, but as I've said these offer only a temporary respite from problems of growth and administration requirements.

Answer 7

each super civilization/empire ends at one element. We as human beings adapt to that regulate and flow on. the actual question is whilst specific civilizations/empires will end? no person understand that.

Answer 8

war, disease, plaque, new city down the river or beach...etc..etc..

I don't believe anyone ever went to hell yet. God hasn't judged anybody yet. But the judgement day is suppose to be coming.

Answer 9

Man was the cause......No emotion, act of hatred,discrimination or anything else can be blamed. Man is the root....period.

Answer 10

Um... does this belong the in religion & spirituality section? I would think it should be in government & politics.

Answer 11

i thought it varied from civillization to civillization. war, famine, natural causes, over population. you can't have one pat answer can you. lets not forget tidal waves, meteros, aliens and God