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Originally Posted by pzkpfw
How does precession affect life on Earth and how could this manifest itself in cycles of civilisation?
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I had a previous thread
Precessional Cosmology which discussed this at length
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What reason would you have, to think that precessional cycles should affect human events on Earth?
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Considering the solar system as an organic unity suggests to me that main regular cyclic patterns are likely to be manifested in things which evolve within them.
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Without looking at history, how would you predict events or cycles?
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We can predict astronomical cycles without looking at history. However, to explore how astronomical cycles may be manifest in history can be assisted by looking at how instances of the cycle played out in events.
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What does "strength" actually mean here?
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Influence on events compared to other factors.
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This confirms you are cherry-picking things that fit your idea. If I roll a die 10 times, and pick out just the events where "3" followed "2", can I say that's a cycle?
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Of course not. Dice are random, cosmic time is ordered.
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I also think people here have provided examples that contradict your word (that I bolded) above.
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Zama in 202 and Hiroshima in 1945, and the creation of republics in Rome at 509BC and England 1637-60AD are separated by 2147 years. Imperial expansion is a longer process but one where the two processes match well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...5th_century_BC can be roughly set against American expansion from 1650.