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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,021 ratings — published 2004
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,929 ratings — published 1997
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,152 ratings — published
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,895 ratings — published 2024
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,233 ratings — published 2011
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,815 ratings — published 1975
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.64 — 174 ratings — published 2010
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 15,598 ratings — published 1995
Medieval Civilization 400-1500 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,206 ratings — published 1964
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 383 ratings — published 2000
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,216 ratings — published 1963
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,638 ratings — published 2015
A History of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,694 ratings — published 1972
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.81 — 108 ratings — published 1994
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,431 ratings — published 2021
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 13,098 ratings — published 2014
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.60 — 225 ratings — published 2000
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 191 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,753 ratings — published 2010
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 10,364 ratings — published 2011
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.90 — 200 ratings — published 1989
The Mars Mystery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,032 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 3.91 — 2,242 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 — 5,490 ratings — published 2009
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,754 ratings — published 2010
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,162 ratings — published 1978
Waterless Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,491 ratings — published 1931
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.17 — 931 ratings — published 2005
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 3.85 — 54 ratings — published 2005
The Life and Death of St. Kilda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.09 — 515 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 4.06 — 3,972 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 — 816 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 — 355 ratings — published 1993
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,340 ratings — published 1949
The Civilizing Process (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,013 ratings — published 1939
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,655 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 4.08 — 107 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.80 — 270 ratings — published 1998
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,949 ratings — published 1971
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.73 — 213 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 — 4,017 ratings — published 2007
Dr. Johnson's London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 793 ratings — published 2000
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.82 — 270 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 — 959 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 4.12 — 78 ratings — published 1954
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 941 ratings — published 2006
“Now we know that man is more than two million years old,' exlaimed Heyerdahl, 'it would be very strange if our ancestors lived like primitive food collectors for all that time until suddenly they started in the Nile valley, in Mesopotamia and even in the Indus valley, to build a civilization at peak level pretty much at the same time. And there's a question I ask that I never get an answer to. The tombs from the first kingdom of Sumer are full of beautiful ornaments and treasures made of gold, silver, platinum, and semi-precious stones -- things you don't find in Mesopotamia. All you find there is mud and water -- good for planting but not much else. How did they suddenly learn -- in that one generation just about -- where to go to find gold and all these other things? To do that they must have known the geography of wide areas, and that takes time. So there must have been something before.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement”
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