Civilizations


Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Story of Civilization
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Medieval Civilization 400-1500
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
A History of Civilizations
A History of Japan
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds
Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisFollowing Caesar by John KeaheyCairo by Gaston WietBukhara by Richard N. Frye
Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Best Aliens
425 books — 331 voters


The common man is in the majority, so the common man holds the most power, but unfortunately they give their power away to the few who tell them to do so. If a certain threshold of people believed in their hearts that a transition to a moneyless civilization would be best, it would manifest itself in the physical world.
Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

Anne Bishop
The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim. ...more
Anne Bishop, Etched in Bone

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Through Time Do you love a specific era, civilization, or decade? Do you love the fashion, mannerisms and pas…more
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