210 Reasons for decline of Roman Empire

Source: A. Demandt, Der Fall Roms (1984) 695See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and  Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73.See also: 1 (washington.edu) 1.      Abolition of gods2.      Abolition of rights3.      Absence of character4.      Absolutism5.      Agrarian question6.      Agrarian slavery7.      Anarchy8.      Anti-Germanism9.      Apathy10.  Aristocracy11.  Asceticism12.  Attack of the Germans13.  Attack of the Huns14.  Attack of riding nomads15.  Backwardness in science16.  Bankruptcy17.  Barbarization18.  Bastardization19.  Blockage of land by large landholders20.  Blood poisoning21.  Bolshevization22.  Bread and circuses23.  Bureaucracy 24.  Byzantinism25.  Capillarite sociale26.  Capitals, change of27.  Caste system28.  Celibacy29.  Centralization30.  Childlessness31.  Christianity32.  Citizenship, granting of33.  Civil war34.  Climatic deterioration35.  Communism36.  Complacency37.  Concatenation of misfortunes38.  Conservatism39.  Capitalism40.  Corruption41.  Cosmopolitanism42.  Crisis …

The Modulation of Thought

What defines the confines of societal thinking? How fertile can the imagination of a culture can be? I will give one example - when Europeans brought to oxen a Pacific island, the natives, who never saw an ox, named it a pig with two large teeth on it’s forehead. I don’t remember this anecdote perfectly, …