Practice question · Put in order
Put Ibn Khaldun’s dynastic cycle in order.
- Harsh marginal conditions forge intense group cohesion
- Comfort dissolves the cohesion that won the throne
- A new group with high asabiyyah arrives from the margin
- The cohesive group conquers a soft, wealthy dynasty
- The conquerors settle into luxury, taxes, and administration
Hints
- Hardship builds cohesion before conquest is possible.
- Comfort erodes what hardship built, and the cycle restarts.
Show the answer
- Harsh marginal conditions forge intense group cohesion
- The cohesive group conquers a soft, wealthy dynasty
- The conquerors settle into luxury, taxes, and administration
- Comfort dissolves the cohesion that won the throne
- A new group with high asabiyyah arrives from the margin
Why
Hardship, conquest, comfort, decay, replacement, and back to the start. Roughly four generations, about 120 years, and the cause of the fall is precisely the success.
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