FACTORS FROM THE PATTERN OF 700 YEAR CYCLES

1)   Quality of life:  Gross National Product population

2)   Area within empire: note this splits into independent administrative areas such as the E and W Roman Empires, 2 augustii and 2 caesari

3)   Laws: Number of laws, and respect for legislation; note respect is inversely proportional to numbers.

4)   Economics: Gross national product measured in fixed units,

NOTE: measure not in currency, but gold or silver (iron etc.)

5)   Morals/Customs: The social values, evaluation of worth, personal and religious basis for value systems, devoutness/cynicism.

6)   Sex dominance: male domination phases 1,2,3,4,5, and 8 female influence is found in phases 6,7,9, and 10 with reigning queens 7 and 9.10

7)   Trade: The ability to ship goods safely anywhere within empire and even between empires. safety of personal travel.

8)   Responsibility: Individual self responsibility (and reward), progresses to collectivism without individual responsibility and a link between behavior and result,. INCENTIVEI reward for behavior.

9)   Collectivism versus individualism: The introduction of welfare, or other forms of. governmental charity supported. from public taxation displaces individual charity, and destroys the self respect system.,

10) Generalist versus specialization: The cycle starts with generalists, who become more and more specialized until overspecialization with failing communications lea   to collapse of production.

11).Quality and Quantity: a)Art, b)Music, c)Crafts,. d) Production; the quantity...available increases while the quality first increases and then falls.

12) Religion: Formation of new religions phase 3,-devoutness and number of followers varies in pattern.

13) Civil Construction: Size and number of projects maximal phase 8, follows general curve.

14) Luxury: The free time for leisure class, increases with wealth of whole empire, allowing innovation, creativity.

15) Fraction near poverty: the distribution curve of wealth follows a pattern with extreme poverty in phase 1.

16) Philosophical motivation: a) Military, b) Religious, c) Economic d) Social, and repeat

17) Empire loyalty versus Nationalism, "The logic of empire" versus regional fragmentation.

18) Security/safety of individuals: Urban/suburban/rural: mobile population versus fixed population (movement of tribes such as Vandals, Goths, etc.)

19) Law enforcement: respect and efficiency, fraction of population involved, (police / military / court I jail system)

20) Privacy versus public intrusion:

21) Taxes:  As a fraction of production, status, wealth, and how spent.

22) Civil Service: the fraction of population on public payroll, (6% phase 6 to 15% phase 7; ditto mid phase 9)

23) Currency: Starts out 1)Gold, 2)gold/silver; 3)silver; 4)silver/base metal (copper or tin); 5)base metal alone; 6)base + script credit; 7)script alone then ⁸)collapse of currency system; return to gold basis.

24) Judicial System: 1)swift/ citizen/ local; 2)slow/ impartial/ for everyone but elite assumes control; 3 ponderous/ corrupt/ dis-respected/ priest - elite exclusion of people; 4) excessively slow usually unjust/ farcical/ parasitic on people.

25) Migration: from fixed because of insecurity of travel to individual migration to mass migrations of groups

26) Exploration/Adventure  peaks from phase 4 to ending in phase 9

27) Form of government (NOTE actual form not title assigned form): amateur; republic; professional; democracy/  mob ,  elite imperial ­oligarchy  nominal oligarchy without real control,  uncontrolled government by inertia (decline / anarchy and overthrow of nominal but  ineffective head of government.