Timeline for What is the maximum time lag a country can deal with?
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| Apr 10, 2016 at 15:08 | history | edited | Martin Handrlica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2016 at 3:33 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Martin Handrlica: Sure, but that sort of distributed government is a way of dealing with time lags. As with the British Empire, local officials have more authority and aren't expected to wait for decisions from the capital. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 11:43 | comment | added | Martin Handrlica | I am not saying the lag led to the fall, but I was under the impression, that it was the main reason for the establishment of the Tetrarchy, and the West-East divide. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 4:12 | comment | added | jamesqf | I think it's really quite arguable that long communication times had very little, if anything, to do with the fall of the western Roman Empire. (Remember that the eastern Empire lasted about another thousand years!) It was quite close to its maximum extent by the 2nd century (Hadrian's wall dates from 122 CE), and operated successfully for several more centuries. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 4:11 | comment | added | Brythan | The larger problem with Rome was that it stopped letting soldiers retire near Rome. Instead, soldiers had to retire in the provinces to be awarded land. As a result, there were neither veterans nor sons of military families to recruit near Rome. So when barbarians carved their way through the provinces to get to Rome, Rome had nothing left to repel them. If Rome had pushed the nobles into the provinces and kept the soldiers close, it might be standing today. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 3:34 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 2:03 | comment | added | Aify | Or you know, we might manage to develop Ansibles in the future, which would enable lagless communications across space. | |
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| Apr 9, 2016 at 1:25 | history | asked | Martin Handrlica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |