Wooooo boy, we're gonna get into a PhD dissertation here, but oh well.
It's not a matter of dividing history into chunks, it's a matter of observing repeatable events. "X1 slew Y1 in order to gain Z1. Three hundred years later, X2 slew Y2 in order to gain Z2." The threads aren't the same, but the weave is very familiar.
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And, honestly, I would put "short term" at fifty years at most. We are not an intelligent species.
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how would you know if your observations are merely the result of historians collecting and narrativizing events to create a history that gives you the impression that empire is cyclical? and who told you that empire is the main way of understanding past events?
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again, map and terrain. history is the map, past events are the terrain.
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