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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4336954" data-attributes="member: 19675">Applying RW events to the PoL design suggests that you can also have an ostensibly civilized city or state that has so isolated itself that it stagnates and maybe even regresses.The aforementioned Chinese were responsible for many inventions in the ancient world, but shut themselves off from the "barbarians" outside their walls and powerful navy.  When travelers and traders worked their way back into China from the West bearing some of their latest and greatest inventions, they were often met with awe and respect...even though the Chinese had actually invented the same things hundreds of years before.  They had forgotten their greatness.</blockquote>