Economic fortunes and conditions of life rise and fall, but the one true existential threat to a nation/culture/whatever was realized during the “Columbian Exchange” of infectious diseases
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“Existential threat” to the US is fascinating marketing lingo, and so open-ended as to be meaningless. Polities continued to exist post-Stalin, Mao, Castro, whoever. Greece survived after Alexander. The Timurids hung on post-Taimur.
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