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	DECLINE AND FALL OF BUDDHISM
		Introduction: Various aspects of decline of Buddhism and its ultimate fall, are discussed in details, specially the Effects rather than Causes, from the "massical" view rather than "classical" view.
		Education and illiteracy: Fall of Buddhism directly affected the multitudes of population, who were denied education.
		Fall of Science:How Science was on zenith in Buddhist India and how Brahmins purposefully caused its fall to uphold their own supremacy after the fall of Buddhism.
	www.ambedkar.org /books/dob.htm (453 words)

	Decline and Fall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh.
		Decline and Fall is a satire and contains much of the author's characteristic fl humour.
		The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decline_and_Fall (147 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Gibbon: The Fall of the Roman Empire
		The hostile favourites of Arcadius and Honorius betrayed the republic to its common enemies; and the Byzantine court beheld with indifference, perhaps with pleasure, the disgrace of Rome, the misfortunes of Italy, and the loss of the West.
		If the decline of the Roman empire was hastened by the conversion of Constantine, his victorious religion broke the violence of the fall, and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors.
		But this superiority insensibly declined with their laws and manners; and the feeble policy of Constantine and his successors armed and instructed, for the ruin of the empire, the rude valour of the Barbarian mercenaries.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/gibbon-fall.html (3083 words)

	Economic Deterioration of Rome in the Third Century AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The decline of Rome was the result of a complex process of interwoven weaknesses, defects and contingencies.
		In his famous work ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ he states that the period in the history of the world when the human race was most happy and prosperous was the time between the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus (98-180 AD).
		The decline of the slave-market lead to a system whereby the free peasantry increasingly became the work-tool of the state and the landowners also became a work-tool bound to the place where they were needed.
	www.roman-empire.net /articles/article-018.html (6406 words)

	Decline and Fall
		For instance, Alaskan production is declining because oil reserves in Prudhoe Bay are being drawn down and not being replaced, although the decline can be slowed through enhanced recovery methods.
		Egyptian oil reserves were 3.3 billion barrels in 1982, and as a result of oil discoveries, expanded to 6.2 billion barrels in 1992, but has subsequently declined by 40% to 3.7 billion barrels.
		Falling Colombian exports to the United States will be from more distant sources enhancing tanker demand no matter what level of Venezuelan exports.
	www.poten.com /show_articles.asp?id=336&table=tMarket (644 words)

	Lecture 10: The Vision of Human Progress: Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet
		While sitting as a Member of Parliament, Gibbon was busy preparing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the first volume of which appeared in 1776, the same year that Smith had published The Wealth of Nations.
		Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was received as a masterpiece and his history is still regarded as such.
		The most celebrated passages of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapters 15 and 16 in the first volume, are those which were most inflammatory to some 18th century critics.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture10a.html (5215 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Table of Contents
		This decline was all the more vivid when held up to the golden ideals of political and intellectual freedom put forward in his study of the early classic literature.
		The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It has obtained undisputed possession, as rightful occupant, of the vast period which it comprehends.
		However some subjects, which it embraces, may have undergone more complete investigation, on the general view of the whole period, this history is the sole undisputed authority to which all defer, and from which few appeal to the original writers, or to more modern compilers.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-1/toc.html (610 words)

	Encyclopedia article on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of Eighteenth Century, was written by the British historian, Edward Gibbon.
		The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/home.html) from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
		The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=375) from Project Gutenberg.
	encyclozine.com /The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire (1096 words)

	THE DECLINE AND FALL OF EMPIRES: A THEORY OF DE-DEVELOPMENT
		5.7 The decline and fall of the Chinese Ch'ing dynasty
		The diagram is similar to Diagram I for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
		Reality, it seems, is neither one nor the other, but an afterlife after decline and fall, with reincarnation or rebirth, at a higher or lower level, depending on their merits, at the same place or somewhere else.
	www.transcend.org /galt.htm (9725 words)

	The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
		I/ The Decline And Fall In The West (Chapters 1 - 38)
		III/ The Decline And Fall In The East (Chapters 39 - 71)
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/home.html (84 words)

	Tutorial 3B
		Accounts of the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire vie on an ideological battlefield, with political commitments largely determining the reasons one offers for the collapse.
		As the dominant versions of history were written since the end of the Great War have consciously or unwittingly adopted the perspective of the nation state, the collapse of the empire has often been viewed as the inevitable fulfillment of the destiny of a nation.
		It was the first of the Asian civilizations to face the problem of 'decline' relative to the West because it was adjacent to the West and therefore most vulnerable to its expansionism, whether intellectual, political, economic or military.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /ottoman/module3/tutorial3b.htm (3316 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Edward Gibbon: The Idea of Roman Jurisprudence
		Cicero, his contemporary and friend, declined the reputation of a professed lawyer; but the jurisprudence of his country was adorned by his incomparable genius, which converts into gold every object that it touches.
		In the decline of the Roman empire, the proud distinctions of the republic were gradually abolished, and the reason or instinct of Justinian completed the simple form of an absolute monarchy.
		They declined the solemnities of the old nuptials; defeated the annual prescription by an absence of three days; and, without losing their name or independence, subscribed the liberal and definite terms of a marriage contract.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/gibbon-chap44.html (17290 words)

	Reason: The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy: How nationalism, protectionism, and collectivism spawned a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reason: The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy: How nationalism, protectionism, and collectivism spawned a century of dictatorship and war.
		And indeed, some in that camp did fall prey to the facile assumption that major wars were no longer possible in the new global economy.
		In the 1890s, after their stunning gains in the Reichstag precipitated Bismarck’s fall and the repeal of the repressive Socialist Law, new leaders like Georg Vollmar and Eduard Bernstein pushed the party toward "revisionism," or support for gradual reform and cooperation with the existing state.
	www.reason.com /0112/fe.bl.the.shtml (5465 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Decline and fall
		The bland answer to all this is that the financial markets have at last started doing their sums about the US trade deficit that left-of-centre economists have been doing for years - and they do not like what they see.
		In principle this is good, because the dollar has been overvalued for years and if the US is to "trade" out of its deficit by selling more exports, it needs to have a much more competitive exchange rate.
		The danger is that the Bush administration's ham-fisted attempts to play politics with international trade and currency markets may turn an orderly decline of the dollar into a rout as investors lose confidence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,1091712,00.html (796 words)

	Collapse: Mali & Songhai
		The rise and fall of two medieval kingdoms of West Africa is an example of this.
		After the decline of the Songhai empire, Timbuktu was briefly occupied by Moroccan forces, then taken over by the Fulani people and later by the French.
		Timbuktu's history mirrors the rise and decline of civilizations in the area.
	www.learner.org /exhibits/collapse/mali.html (488 words)

	RALPH LERNER \| Musings in the Ruins \| Law and History Review, 19.2 \| The History Cooperative
		For the Decline and Fall is indubitably a document of eighteenth-century historiography, richer than most and more nuanced and more artful by far, but a document nonetheless.
		He is intent on depicting the historical world in which the Decline and Fall existed—"a peinture, as it would have been put in the eighteenth century, rather than a récit"—"an ecology rather than an etiology" (1:10).
		Gibbon may have begun by intending to write of the decline and fall of the city and the empire, but he ended up writing of the triumph of barbarism and religion.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/19.2/er_lerner.html (3763 words)

	Edward Gibbon
		English historian and scholar, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment, who is best-known as the author of the monumental THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, often considered the greatest historical work written in English.
		In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) Gibbon himself was grateful to Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), Bernard Montfasucon (1655-1741), and Ludovico Muratori (1672-1741) for their collections of facts and documents.
		Gibbon viewed the Roman Empire as a single entity in undeviating decline from the ideals of political and intellectual freedom that had characterized the classical literature he had read.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /egibbon.htm (1331 words)

	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was during these years that he wrote and published the first three volumes of Decline and Fall.
		From the moment when the first volume was published in 1776, Decline and Fall has been accepted by all generations as a classic work both for its brilliance of style, and its historical understanding and magnitude.
		It is composed of two main parts: one, my personal selections of quotations from Decline and Fall, and; two, my annotated list of all the Roman and Byzantine Emperors.
	www.infosites.net /general/decline-and-fall (654 words)

	DECLINE & FALL
		If he falls by their hands, they are exposed, in their turn, to the danger of reprisals, the interest and principal of the bloody debt are accumulated: the individuals of either family lead a life of malice and suspicion, and fifty years may sometimes elapse before the account of vengeance be finally settled.
		The prudence of Mahomet declined a general engagement: the valor of Ali was signalized in single combat; and the war was protracted twenty days, till the final separation of the confederates.
		Zeid fell, like a soldier, in the foremost ranks: the death of Jaafar was heroic and memorable: he lost his right hand: he shifted the standard to his left: the left was severed from his body: he embraced the standard with his bleeding stumps, till he was transfixed to the ground with fifty honorable wounds.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume2/chap50.htm (13214 words)

	Gibbon, Edward. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It was on a visit to Rome that he conceived the idea of his magnificent and panoramic history.
		This appeared as The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vol., 1776–88) and won immediate acclaim, despite some harsh criticism.
		Editions of the Decline and Fall are legion.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gi/Gibbon-E.html (438 words)

	CHURCH HISTORY
		The fall of mighty Rome in A.D. 476 profoundly impacted the secular world and the church.
		The Ostrogoths settled in Italy after the fall of Rome in A.D. The Visigoths settled in southern Gaul (France) and northern Spain.
		After the fall of Rome in A.D. 476, the desire for monastic living increased, for the world in general was in a mess and the church had become more worldly.
	www.thirdmill.org /files/english/html/ch/CH.h.Arnold.CH.16.html (1450 words)

	The decline and fall of the Wintel empire \| Perspectives \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perspective: The decline and fall of the Wintel empire
		The creeping sense of privileged paralysis is one of the dominant themes of Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," perhaps the ultimate book about big organizations gone bad.
		The decline and fall of the Wintel empire
	news.com.com /The+decline+...+Wintel+empire/2010-1006_3-5296717.html (1493 words)

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		Montesquieu was committed to establishing that the surface milieu of history bore an underlying rationale and that there were general causes for the rise and fall of civilizations that transcended the influence of individuals.
		The Decline and Fall, however, is a demonstration that history is often driven by politics and sometimes by chance and that human passion usually presides over human reason.
		But the economic decline of Rome, coupled with high taxes and the complete loss of martial spirit among the citizens, meant that new armies could not be raised and so the territorial gains could not be held.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/15/jun97/gibbon.htm (2785 words)

	Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Empire (from Byzantine Empire) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Empire (from Byzantine Empire) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Loss of territory, internal discord, and defeats by the crusaders were blows from which the empire could not recover.
		More results on "Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Empire (from Byzantine Empire)" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-198009?ct= (813 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XV
		The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The West
		The humane temper of Justin Martyr inclined him to answer this question in the affirmative; and though he expressed himself with the most guarded diffidence, he ventured to determine in favour of such an imperfect Christian, if he were content to practise the Mosaic ceremonies without pretending to assert their general use or necessity.
		From the first of the fathers to the last of the popes, a succession of bishops, of saints, of martyrs, and of miracles, is continued without interruption; and the progress of superstition was so gradual and almost imperceptible, that we know not in what particular link we should break the chain of tradition.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap15.htm (10618 words)

	Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire
		There were many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.
		Although some argue that Christianity may have provided some morals and values for a declining civilization and therefore may have actually prolonged the imperial era.
		Those morals and values that kept together the Roman legions and thus the empire could not be maintained towards the end of the empire.
	killeenroos.com /1/Romefall.htm (1188 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I found Decline and Fall to have many more laugh-out-loud moments than its predecessor, although I did not feel there was as much depth to the story.
		Waugh was undoubtedly one of the greatest satirists of his day, and although written in nineteen twenty-eight, Decline and Fall remains a witty, hugely comic novel to this day.
		Sent down from Oxford though no fault of his own, Pennyfeather begins his decline and eventual fall in to the depths, encountering along the way a series of incredible characters and unbelievable situations ranging from murder to white slavery but somehow throughout it all seeming to retain his innocence.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141187484 (1640 words)

	From a Republic to Emperor Augustus
		Piecemeal they were defeated and captured, and, to advertise their defeat and lift the morale of Roman citizens, Crassus had them crucified along the road (the Appian way) between Capua and Rome.
		After this latest slave uprising the demand for slaves declined among the Romans, largely from fear of slaves in great numbers.
		Landowners in Italy began replacing gangs of slaves with what they saw as an easier and less frightening alternative: freemen farming as tenants, the landlords receiving a third or more of their harvests.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch18.htm (9882 words)

	Lecture 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome
		What had happened between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance was the bastardization of classical languages.
		For Edward Gibbon, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (3 vols, 1770s), the decline of Rome was natural and required little explanation: "The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.
		Another thing which we ought to remember is that the Roman Empire was large, and when we speak of the fall of Rome, we are talking about the western half of the Empire.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture14b.html (1381 words)

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