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
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
A History of Japan
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Following Caesar by John KeaheyIstanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisCairo 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
427 books — 334 voters

A.A. Gill
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A.A. Gill, To America with Love

Malay Roy Choudhury
If you do not know an oriental language, you are less than five thousand years old
Malay Roychoudhury, The Hungryalist Poems by Malay Roychoudhury

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