Societal collapse | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:00:30 1 Causes of collapse
00:01:41 1.1 Foreign invasions
00:03:27 1.1.1 Introduced diseases
00:04:30 1.2 Sub-replacement fertility
00:06:29 2 Changes occurring with collapse
00:11:10 3 Population dynamics
00:12:11 4 Theories
00:13:10 4.1 Linking social and environmental dynamics
00:15:14 4.2 Population pressure and mineral resource exhaustion
00:18:38 4.3 Theories of energy return on energy invested
00:20:50 4.3.1 Energy scenarios of Bryn Davidson
00:21:22 4.4 Models of societal response
00:24:24 4.4.1 Tainter's critique
00:27:13 4.5 Toynbee’s theory of decay
00:30:50 4.6 Systems science
00:32:57 5 Examples of civilizations and societies that have collapsed
00:33:10 5.1 By reversion or simplification
00:33:58 5.2 By absorption
00:35:28 5.3 By extinction or evacuation
00:36:08 6 See also



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Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society. Such a disintegration may be relatively abrupt, as in the case of Maya civilization, or gradual, as in the case of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
The subject of societal collapse is of interest in such fields as history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and, more recently, cliodynamics and complex-systems science.