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**xtrupoke** · 02-19-2009, 12:39 AM

The only place that collapsed into the Dark Ages after the Fall of Rome was western Europe. Indeed, at this point in history, the nation of Ghana would begin to develop, centered around the upper Niger, where merchants could buy raw gold, transship it across the Sahara, and sell it to interested parties at significant profit. China was halfway through a funk brought about by the fall of the Han Dynasty, India, Byzantium, and Parthia were puttering along nicely, and of course the Arabians were about to emerge in a blast of hell-hath-no-fury upon the world and then themselves (unlike the Germanics) become civilized.

I don't think you wanted the qualifier of western. eastern as well. I'm not as familiar with India but certainly Byzantium did fine for a while. still, it doesn't beleaguer the point that such an event might alter the chart. The fall of the US could usher in a period or warfare, power struggles, and chaos. or it could not. perhaps china would step in as the US did when the British fell from power. It's not impossible for such things to happen again though. I'm also not familiar with ghana and whether they used gold to build baths, toilets, roads, protect the roads, pay doctors, etc. I find it fascinating that Louis the XIV built a magnificent palace with no toilets, yet 4500 years earlier, people on crete had public toilets.

02-19-2009, 12:39 AM	#10
xtrupoke Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 302 Senior Member	The only place that collapsed into the Dark Ages after the Fall of Rome was western Europe. Indeed, at this point in history, the nation of Ghana would begin to develop, centered around the upper Niger, where merchants could buy raw gold, transship it across the Sahara, and sell it to interested parties at significant profit. China was halfway through a funk brought about by the fall of the Han Dynasty, India, Byzantium, and Parthia were puttering along nicely, and of course the Arabians were about to emerge in a blast of hell-hath-no-fury upon the world and then themselves (unlike the Germanics) become civilized. I don't think you wanted the qualifier of western. eastern as well. I'm not as familiar with India but certainly Byzantium did fine for a while. still, it doesn't beleaguer the point that such an event might alter the chart. The fall of the US could usher in a period or warfare, power struggles, and chaos. or it could not. perhaps china would step in as the US did when the British fell from power. It's not impossible for such things to happen again though. I'm also not familiar with ghana and whether they used gold to build baths, toilets, roads, protect the roads, pay doctors, etc. I find it fascinating that Louis the XIV built a magnificent palace with no toilets, yet 4500 years earlier, people on crete had public toilets.
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