{"pk":38104,"title":"Seeing the Forest of Secular Cycles","subtitle":null,"abstract":"War and Peace and War\n presents a model of cyclic human behavior that can be mapped onto data from historical periods to explain some of the reasons behind these events. This report describes a database for representing these maps between specific instances of the \nsecular cycle \nmodel and high-level descriptions of many of the world’s historical empires. The initial use of this database provides a strategic look at one possible interpretation of well-known historical events. It is hoped that this initial mapping will act as a baseline to be enhanced by more detailed research. In addition, when viewed at this strategic level this mapping suggests a refinement of the Secular Cycle model based on a regular shortening of the periods of these cycles over the full imperial cycle and over the general course of human history.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Database, secular cycle"},{"word":"imperial cycle"},{"word":"formative period"},{"word":"empire"},{"word":"human history"},{"word":"arithmetic sequence"},{"word":"History"}],"section":"Databases","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6244v78z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Sirag, Jr.","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-03-01T17:32:01-08:00","date_accepted":"2012-03-01T17:32:01-08:00","date_published":"2012-12-31T13:58:19-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38104/galley/28671/download/"},{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38104/galley/28672/download/"}]}