User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-5512928-20110524191629

I think that Panem fell behind due to the fact that they did not have very good land and lots of their clever people died, so they forgot stuff. However Europe, Africa and Asia formed a super state and prosphered because The deserts in Africa became fertile land due to rain and the sea level rising and Also lots of people hid in the Himalayas for a bit when the floods happened so very few people died