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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,543 ratings — published 2004
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,903 ratings — published 1997
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,005 ratings — published 1996
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,689 ratings — published 2024
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,803 ratings — published 1975
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,334 ratings — published 1995
Medieval Civilization 400-1500 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,194 ratings — published 1964
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,248,234 ratings — published 2011
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.89 — 380 ratings — published 2000
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,197 ratings — published 1963
A History of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,653 ratings — published 1972
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published 1994
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,637 ratings — published 2014
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.60 — 220 ratings — published 2000
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.64 — 173 ratings — published 2010
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.74 — 191 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,522 ratings — published 2010
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,263 ratings — published 2011
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.89 — 194 ratings — published 1989
The Mars Mystery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,020 ratings — published 1997
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,223 ratings — published 1995
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,432 ratings — published 2009
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,531 ratings — published 2010
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,471 ratings — published 1978
Waterless Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,485 ratings — published 1931
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1996
Ancient Civilizations: The Illustrated Guide to Belief, Mythology and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.90 — 52 ratings — published 2005
The Life and Death of St. Kilda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.09 — 508 ratings — published 1975
What Life was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China Ad 960-1368 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 71 ratings — published 1998
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,896 ratings — published 2007
Daily Life in Holland in the Year 1566 And the Story of My Ancestor's Treasure Chest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.54 — 79 ratings — published 1992
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.95 — 810 ratings — published 2007
The Indian in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.10 — 123 ratings — published 1975
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.88 — 356 ratings — published 1993
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,320 ratings — published 1949
The Civilizing Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,003 ratings — published 1939
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,638 ratings — published 2000
The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.07 — 104 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.82 — 266 ratings — published 1998
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,901 ratings — published 1971
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.73 — 212 ratings — published 1969
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,931 ratings — published 2007
Dr. Johnson's London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 783 ratings — published 2000
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.81 — 264 ratings — published 2008
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.05 — 955 ratings — published 1964
Ur of the Chaldees: A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 1954
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 934 ratings — published 2006
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,230 ratings — published 1651
Cruces of Beowulf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1971
The Cultural World in Beowulf (Anthropological Horizons)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1995
“Rich, modern countries have common traits that make them different from poor, traditional countries, which also share common traits. Differences in wealth can lead to conflict between societies, but the evidence suggests that this mainly occurs when rich and powerful societies try to conquer and colonize poor and traditional societies.”
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“The rolling hills we traveled through were lined with rows of crisscrossed crops- apple and pear trees, vines of grapes, and maize- creating bafflingly precise geometries. In the forested areas, the branches on the trees drooped lugubriously like the long sleeves of Druid priests.
Jonathan pointed to the curved roads that cut through the hillsides and valleys. "Forged by Romans, Mina!" he said. "So many civilizations have come and gone on this land- Celts, Romans, Normans, Mongols, French. Who knows how many more?”
― Dracula in Love
Jonathan pointed to the curved roads that cut through the hillsides and valleys. "Forged by Romans, Mina!" he said. "So many civilizations have come and gone on this land- Celts, Romans, Normans, Mongols, French. Who knows how many more?”
― Dracula in Love
