Aِli Asghar Pourezzat; Ghazaleh Taheri Attar
Volume 8, Issue 21 , December 2006, , Pages 79-119
Abstract
Today’s world situation is the result of various historical incidents.
During these accidents and changes, some civilizations manifest, grow
and collapse. The study and analysis of the effecting factors on
stability or disintegration of a civilization could be serving as an
example for the ...
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Today’s world situation is the result of various historical incidents.
During these accidents and changes, some civilizations manifest, grow
and collapse. The study and analysis of the effecting factors on
stability or disintegration of a civilization could be serving as an
example for the existing civilization and developing societies very
much. The Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and most effective
civilizations in the history of mankind, and Iran land as the cradle of
this civilization, has experienced many governments and dynasties.
Some of them have declined and finally collapsed for unknown
reasons while they had pride, glory, and a high level of political and
economical power; like Achaemenian, Sasani, Ashkabni, Safavi, and
etc.
Achaemenian Empire with a background of 230 years governing on
the world was declined by a young, low experienced, ambitious army
general. Establishing this Empire which involved different and
various races, languages and cultures, was a big revolution in the
world history of governance. The world for the first time enjoyed a
united and centralized government. It was only Roman Empire that
could compete with it years later. The main question of this study is
that how an empire and civilization with this level of power, glory and
domination gradually collapsed from inside. It seems that many
reasons involve in the decline and collapse of a civilization, or its
survival and stability. In this study it was assumed that some factors
such as justice, responsibility, freedom and national identity lead to
stability. On the other hand, factors like despotism, narcissism, and
discrimination cause acceleration in civilizations' collapse. The study
of historical evidences confirms the hypothesis that injustice is one of
the most important factors which cause internal collapse, and
intelligence level decline in these governments.
