The Development of Cities

[JDR Dragoon]

As for population pressure and the fall of Rome, it was never anything more than a 19th century fairy tale told by Malthusians.

Earlier it was also very much grounded in the notions of migrations as taken from the bible (ie. Exodus, Moses and his people fleeing Egypt etc.)

It is military conquest. But the modern world will say anything and believe anything, rather than admit that military conquest drives history.

It certainly plays quite a big part. We humans just seem to have a knack for coercing each other through violence :)