A Macrohistoric Trend Toward World Government

From the days of the Mesopotamian Empire to the present, Julian Steward's cyclical empires have tended to grow larger, millennium by millennium. Here the areas of twenty-eight large Old World empires are measured. The results suggest that, if the trend continues, a peace ful world order is probable within three thousand years: 2,600 years later than Naroll's prediction

Ancient history · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Geography · Government (linguistics · Old World · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · World order · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Geology · History · Law · Philosophy · World Systems and Global Transformations

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