Finally we have reached the end of this blog! At the start of this blogging journey I was certain that environmental factors played a major role in many of the ancient societal collapses studied in this blog. However, I gathered pretty early on that there was such uncertainty about what happened in the past that it was much more probable that a whole multitude of effects (including societal and cultural factors) was the reason why some past to societies declined.
Yet I still feel looking at the past is great for us as we move forward as, in the problems faced in nearly all of the examples of collapse in ancient cities are the problems we still face today- deforestation, reduced water security, aridification, invasive species and climate change. Thus by looking at how these factors affected societies may aid us in predicting what mean for populations today. However, in the end I remain hopeful and fairly certain that a societal collapse could not happen in the future as I don't believe that in this globalised world we will let a society collapse and I remain optimistic in thinking that somewhere solutions are being thought of and put in place to mitigate the impacts of the problems we face.
In the end I hope you all enjoyed reading about past societies and saw how they can relate to our future. I also hope this blog has inspired you to find your own ancient societal collapse casestudies as there are still many out there waiting to be analysed but until I pick up the blogging quill again, I bid you adieu!
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