The Second World War was one of the wars in which economic factors played a decisive role. There were wars, such as the Mongol invasions, where economics didn't play a role at all: the Mongols conquered enemies dozens of times larger economically. In modern warfare, however, as combat is mostly mechanized (it was explosive power that created the damage and not muscle power), while states became more organized (and thus could transform the economic resources of their territories into armies and fleet),...

Population density

Extensive field survey research is enabling us to have a good idea of the overall trajectory of population density. Here is the result of field surveys conducted on the Albegna valley in central Italy, a core region of the mediterranean:


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Population densities reached their peak in the 50 BC to 100 AD period, in other sites the same pattern...

Iron

Iron was the most widely used metal in the Classical Mediterranean, however, since iron production doesn't release special elements in the atmosphere we cannot determine clearly the trajectory of iron production during ancient times. However, based on local archaeological evidence, we can reconstruct the trajectory of iron production in certain areas of the ancient world.

In Britain, where extensive surveys of iron making sites were made, we can roughly reconstruct...

Behold! All the graphs that I have ever posted in the forum condensed in one blog post.

Using the products of modern archaeology it is becoming possible for us to reconstruct the trajectory of the total volume of economic activity of the classical world during antiquity. The evidence apparently indicates that aggregate economic activity in the ancient world peaked in the 1st century AD, after rising for nearly a thousand years and then started to decline, nearly continuously, for...

I am posting in my blog an old post of mine that I liked. It's my first blog post without statistics.

Some people believe that the Greeks were an exceptional civilization. That they were fundamentally different in nature from other civilizations. I do believe that. While others don't. However this blog post is not about IF the Greeks were different, but explaining WHY the Greeks were different. It is for discussing why Hellas evolved a rather different culture from other cultures....