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

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

THROUGHOUT THE SAHEL CIVIL WARS BREAK OUT,  NEW COMMERCIAL FORCES WIN AND STRONGER POWER SPRINGS UP TO CONTAIN THEM 

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

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

Growth, destabilization 

and much more control

• Change 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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Change ripples down from the more commercial north