Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Launching Blog 3^rd Episode

Md. Merajul Islam

The Incas Beyond Empire and Collapse:

Language, Bodies, and the Andean Science of Survival

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-incas-beyond-empire-and-collapse-565e6afd4a45?postPublishedType=initial

Mohammad Merajul Islam, after a first episode on the Roman Empire and the consideration of all that was kept, even fructified, in the later historical periods, came to the idea that “collapse” is the wrong concept to explain the end of a historical form of development and the continuation of this phylogenetic development in the next historical periods. The Roman Empire did not collapse since we live on and with its direct legal, civil or criminal, codes, and numerous other institutions in education, politics, agriculture, science, even if the blocked social situation with massive slavery, and the military management of their world with constant wars and violence, necessitating massive security forces, is the real obstacle that brought the political apparatus down..

He then expanded his approach in the second episode, with the study of the “collapse” of the USSR. He showed how in fact it was a real trans-substantiation from an industrial empire to algorithms, from plans to platforms. They came to an end when they were confronted to the necessity to adapt to new conditions if they wanted to remain relevant in the new century.

But it was necessary to study other older cases to show it is a fundamental process in human history, which did not start with writing or representational paintings and entoptic signs that no one would still call “scribbling” like Hergé did before and after 1945. But it started with the abstract symbolic vocal elements (vowels and consonants and their rotation) that opened the door to naming objects, people, animals, situations, activities, and so many other things. From there, with observation, speculation, and discussion, hence communication that could only be vocal or body language, they went through the emergence of conceptualization somewhere around 300,000 BCE, as soon as they were able to produce a minimum of 500 (arbitrary estimation) VCV or CVC clusters

In the present third episode, he studies the case of the Incas in the Andes and their empire. The case is a lot more complicated because the Incas did not have a writing system with any real phonological symbolism that we consider to be a writing system. The interest here is that after considering what brought the political apparatus of the empire down, i.e., the genocide (military and with European diseases) and the culturicide performed by the Spaniards, still in the 20^th century before and after the Second World War, some popular forms of culture, comic books in this case and Hergé’s Tintin, literarily try to bury the Incas in their own “death” by justifying the looting of Inca tombs and Inca kings’ mummies. The Incas are accused of being vengeful, barbaric, and, of course, totally primitive, with the naïve power of a sun eclipse, with people who were more advanced in cosmology than the Catholic Church, which forced Galileo Galilei to make amends about the earth turning on its own axis and around the sun.

Enjoy it. The next chapter will concern the Mayas, and this next chapter will lead Mohammad Merajul Islam to a real book on human development and phylogeny in sustainable conceptual invention and science. Are we not rediscovering the ecological mental achievements of humanity over very long hundreds of thousands of years, an ecological dimension we seem to have forgotten, and for some people, lost?

All this is only possible with the mentorship of

Prof. Dr. Jacques Coulardeau

University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

It is urgent to re-evaluate civilizational phylogeny, because there is rarely any collapse: only evolution and development into a new and more advanced form of civilization.

The Incas Beyond Empire and Collapse: Language, Bodies, and the Andean Science of Survival

Mohammad Mirajul Islam & Jacques Coulardeau

2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

113 Pages

Art History,  *  Phylogeny,  *  South American Indians,  *  Ancient civilizations,  *  Topics Related to Applied Linguistics and Communication

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:16 PM