From the days of the Mesopotamian Empire to the present, Julian
Steward's cyclical empires have tended to grow larger, millennium by
millennium. Here the areas of twenty-eight large Old World empires
are measured. The results suggest that, if the trend continues, a peace ful world order is probable within three thousand years: 2,600 years later than Naroll's prediction.
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