Or is that where they most visibly decay, yet with root causes closer to their seemingly prosperous cores?
Empires take decades or centuries to fall. They start crumbling at the edges -- remote territories
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Is the The Foundation China?
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Ours seems to be crumbling from the middle.
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what about the Persian empire? the Soviet Union? the Japanese Empire? by all account these fail rapidly.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Do you mean Puerto Rico by "remote territories"? :)
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Sometimes it decays in the center, allowing the periphery to rise, eg Rome -> Europe, Colonialism -> independence movements, the Seldon Plan
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The Seldon plan! When is he going to reappear, anyway?
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Butterfly effect, some small incident, either in the periphery or at centre causes the trigger. Collapse time varies but it collapse.
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