Societal collapse
Societal collapse also so-called as civilizational collapse is the fall of the complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity together with of socioeconomic complexity, the downfall of government, as alive as the rise of violence. Possible causes of a societal collapse include natural catastrophe, war, pestilence, famine, economic collapse, population decline, & mass migration. A collapsed society may revert to a more primitive state, be absorbed into a stronger society, or totally disappear.
Virtually all civilizations realize suffered such a fate, regardless of their size or complexity, but some of them later revived and transformed, such(a) as China, India, and Egypt. However, others never recovered, such as the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, the Easter Island civilization. Societal collapse is generally quick but rarely abrupt. However, some cases involve non a collapse but only a unhurried fading away, such as the British Empire since 1918.
Anthropologists, quantitative historians, and sociologists construct proposed a quality of explanations for the collapse of civilizations involving causative factors such as environmental change, depletion of resources, unsustainable complexity, invasion, disease, decay of social cohesion, rising inequality, secular decline of cognitive abilities, damage of creativity, and misfortune. However, ready extinction of a culture is non inevitable, and in some cases, the new societies that occur from the ashes of the old one are evidently its offspring, despite a dramatic reduction in sophistication. Moreover, the influence of a collapsed society, such as the Western Roman Empire, may linger on long after its death.
The discussing of societal collapse, collapsology, is a topic for specialists of history, anthropology, sociology, and political science. More recently, they are joined by experts in cliodynamics and explore of complex systems.