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Civilization Wars: What is Success Mantra


I stumbled upon this Histomap created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. The Histomap describes how different civilization rose and faded with time. Expansion of any civilization represented by horizontal expansion on the graph. It is interesting to note these expansions and spreading of civilization was short lived. e.g. say Roman, Mongols or Greeks etc. Any attempt to expand quickly either militarily or by imperialistically became the extinction of that civilization in quick span of 100-300 years. It seems these kind of military expansion tired these culture and these culture weathered in short span. In this chart only Indian (Hindu) and Chinese civilization has sustained the test of time and one thing which is common to both these Asian giants that they have not gone out militarily or imperialistically around the world. Rather these cultures has spread on different part of the world by teaching and their inherent science of life. This seems to be answer to those who are trying to force their world views around the world. Perhaps its the time to realize that racial or religious discrimination and sense of superiority complex over other will not help. We need to learn to respect each other and learn what is good in others as well. We have to make choice either to learn to co-exit with mutual respect or extinct!  
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