[kellychaos]

I don't know if this has anything to do with techology/science much but I've been watching some of the "barbarian" themed documentaries (vikings, goths, huns, ect.) on the History Channel lately and it seemed that the common motif from fourish to finish is that they started as a warrior society intent on domination and ended up crumbling from within as merchantilism began to flourish and their militaristic needs dwindled eventually causing in-fighting.