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A Macrohistoric Trend Toward World GovernmentFrom the days of the Mesopotamian Empire to the present, Julian Steward's cyclical empires have tended to grow larger, millennium by millennium. Here the areas of twenty-eight large Old World empires are measured. The results suggest that, if the trend continues, a peace ful world order is probable within three thousand years: 2,600 years later than Naroll's prediction.
Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 8, No. 1,
35-39 (1973) |
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