IV.3. CYCLES OF GROWTH, CONFLICT AND NEW POWER

4.3. MENU: Cycles: Growth. Conflict. New power

COMMERCIAL FORCES WIN AFTER A FIGHT AND STRONGER POWER CONTAINS THEM 

In the most developed regions charismatic leaders, advanced merchants and destabilized crowds establish states of an unprecedented kind

Turmoil like that of Djimini takes place in much of the light green zone, with far more intensity.

Growth, destabilization 

and much more control

• Transformation ripples down from the more commercial north  

• An explorer is taken for a messianic leader   

• "Everywhere the humble show their masters their teeth"   

• A theocracy amps up growth...

•  Then contains it

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Transformation ripples down from the more commercial north