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And the black plague.  That didn't help, either, though its role was more to finish off a declining system, rather than to start the system's decline.
by Zwackus on Wed Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:43:27 PM EST
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The plague put a sharp underlining to the end but they had outstripped their resources at their level of technology.  In cases like this ignorance is lethal.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Wed Dec 30th, 2009 at 11:03:48 PM EST
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