Quantitative dynamics of human empires

Marchetti, C. & Ausubel, J.H. (2012). Quantitative dynamics of human empires. International Journal of Anthropology 27 (1-2) 1-62.

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Abstract

Quantitative modeling of social systems shows a large component of automatic drives in the behavior of individual humans and human society. Studies of the formation and breakdown of twenty diverse empires operating over almost three thousand years describe these processes with utmost clarity and pardigmatic simplicity. Taking territorial expansion as the basic parameter, we show that it can e represented in time by a single logistic equation in spite of the complicated sequences of events usually reported by historians. The driving forces of empire, leading to expansion and saturation at 14 days of travel from the capital, can be reduced to testosterone and progesterone.

Item Type:	Article
Research Programs:	Exploratory and Special projects (ESP)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:46
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:22
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/9946

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