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The Akkadian and Persian examples show that the rise-and-fall pattern is consistent enough that game theory should ask how the rules, motivations, incentives, and strategies change over time.
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Akkadians
The Akkadian and Persian examples show that the rise-and-fall pattern is consistent enough that game theory should ask how the rules, motivations, incentives, and strategies change over time.
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"and then traders are able to take the goods across to egypt okay and then you're able to go north to anatolia so why..."
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"conquer everyone else okay the acadians okay after after they built the first empire okay then what happened is that other people come over..."
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"...okay? The Mongols started out as mercenaries for the Chinese. The Akkadians started out as mercenaries for the Sumerians. The Moloch started out as..."
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"...Okay? The Mongols started out as mercenaries for the Chinese. The Akkadians started out as mercenaries for the Sumerians. The Moloch started out as..."
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"...time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries, the Akkadians, who will come and conquer the entire region, okay? And establish an..."
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"...And this leads us to the first world empire called the Akkadian Empire, named by Sargon of Akkad. Now, his name is interesting. His..."
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"...to win. Okay? All right. So as you can see, the Akkadian Empire stretches throughout the Fertile Crescent. Okay? Conquers Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, extends..."
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"...fact, throughout Mesopotamian history, there have been three major empires. The Akkadian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, and the Assyrian Empire. And it goes back..."
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"...a very similar story. So, Sargon of Akkad who founded the Akkadian Empire Romulus and Remus who founded Rome King David who founded Israel..."
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"...what happens is, we have to allow a society, called the Akkadians, to come in and conquer everyone, because they are the most warlike,..."
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"...Okay, so the Mongols perfected this strategy, all right? But the Akkadians also used this strategy, Sargon the Great. Sargon, the second of Akkad,..."
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"...everyone and build the first empire in world history called the Akkadian Empire. So we don't know much about him, but this is what..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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