{"id":68256,"date":"2024-05-20T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68256"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:31:36","slug":"a-concise-history-of-the-global-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68256","title":{"rendered":"A Concise History of the Global Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Concise History of the Global Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Like all past empires, the Global Empire has gone through its parable of growth and glory and is now starting to decline. There is not much we can do about it; we must accept that this is how the universe works.<\/em><\/p>\n

For everything that exists, there is a reason, and that’s true also for that gigantic thing that we sometimes call “The West” or perhaps “The Global Empire.” To find that reason, we may examine its origins in an older but similar empire: the Roman one.<\/p>\n

As someone might have said (and maybe someone did), “Geography is the mother of Empires.” So, the Romans exploited the geography of the Mediterranean basin to build an empire based on maritime transportation. Rome was the center of a hub of commerce that outcompeted every other state in the Western region of Eurasia and North Africa. It was kept together by a “Lingua Franca<\/em>,\u201d Latin, and by a financial system based on coinage, in turn based on the availability of gold and silver mined from the Empire\u2019s mines in Spain. More than all, it was based on a powerful military system created by the Roman wealth.<\/p>\n

Like all empires, the Roman one carried inside the seeds of its own destruction: the limited amount of its mineral resources. Roman gold and silver were used to pay not just for the legions but also for expensive commodities coming from China that the Empire couldn\u2019t produce in its territory. As long as the Romans could keep producing precious metals, the amounts lost to China to pay for silk and spices didn\u2019t matter so much…<\/p>\n

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