What time period during Ancient Rome are you talking about?
The period when they experienced stagnation?
Due to stability
But then, they got into their peaks, they stopped innovating, their social norms degraded, there was a time of diminishing returns in economy and technology and eventually the empire collapsed.
@ETBrooD Have you ever heard of Pax Romana?
Of course I have
I particularly would like to refer to the period of the late 1st century A.D. till the late 3rd century A.D..
They peaked but stopped innovating.
Why should they had to?
Maybe they stopped innovating because they reached their peak, that's kind of implied
They had everything already-big empire, plenty of land and slaves and developed trade network.
Stagnation.
That's not stagnation rofl
And as the result of the stagnation eventually they had to scale down which they couldn't and then, they faced collapse.
If we use this reasoning, then computer science is currently "stagnating", too
@ETBrooD It's kind of stagnation-an ideological one.
That's nonsense
If you reach your peak, you're not stagnating, you simply reached your peak
Thou, it translated into a more profound change.
Stagnating is when you *could* get further with some effort, but you don't
For example computer science has slowed down, contrary to old predictions
That's not stagnation, that's just because we reached certain limits
So the argument that "reaching your peak" is stagnation is already false
Reaching a peak is stagnation.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stagnate
"to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing"
Idiot.
rofl
Reaching a peak does not equate to stagnation
Yes, it is.
No it does not
Reaching your peak is a fucking stagnation.
No it isn't
And do you know how it does happens?
I'm sure you'll give a great historic example
It happenes when you get so stable you have the choice to "dug in" and increase your stability, or, to risk what you already have to get more.
Yes, many of them
Just one
The Chinese empire, medieval India, the Arabs and the Mongolians.
Yawn, again a broad claim
Be more specific so we can test your claim
