Civilizational Collapse (Part 4)

This is part 4 of an intermittent yet always enjoyable series:

• Part 1: the rise of the ancient Puebloan civilization in the American Southwest from 10,000 BC to 750 AD.

• Part 2: the rise and collapse of the ancient Puebloan civilization from 750 AD to 1350 AD.

• Part 3: a simplified model of civilizational collapse.

This time let’s look at the collapse of Greek science and resulting loss of knowledge!

The Antikythera mechanism, found undersea in the Mediterranean, dates to somewhere bet...