It seems strange that suddenly throughout history things just seem to ‘stop’ for a period of time. If it was due to war or some other catastrophe, surely other civilisations would have records of the events that happened
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As the Roman empire collapsed in Europe, maintaining accurate records of every little thing became a lower priority than fighting Goths or whatever. It’s not that history stopped happening, people just weren’t writing everything down. That may coincide with imperial decline but it’s not like everyone just forgot how to do society for 500 years.
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