Cultural Evolution os Human Society is non linear.

Cultural Evolution os Human Society is non linear.

The evolution of human societies and in general of human history, do not follow a liner trend but rests mainly on mutual interactions amongst different components. Identifying the meanings of complexity in human processes which involve material, energy, and environmental factors, the cultural evolution is viewed via a complex system approach of a collective result of non-linear interactions making a series of successive transitional phases along a trajectory. The interacted multi- factorial issues derive from three concentric circles or dynamical systems, a) the internal (issues derived from within a given society), b) the external (issues derived from interaction with neighbour societies) and c) the environmental (issues related to the context and other geological phenomena).

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The spice and silk trails are a prime example of one of these such factors… they led from Europe to the more exotic parts of the globe, and then the Europeans proceeded to slowly eventually conquer them.