“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...

For much of his life, St. Augustine was a loyal citizen of Rome. Although it was a secular state, he believed it provided the only tolerable framework for human society. For Augustine, as for most ...

American historian Eric H. Cline argues that several modern factors are pushing us closer to a collapse of civilization similar to the one that occurred in the 12th century BC, which led to the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. John Perlin’s A Forest Journey explores how forests and wood were fundamental to the rise and fall of civilizations, providing materials for ...

Part One. Primitive culture. Man and culture ; Energy and tools ; The nature of social organization ; The transition from anthropoid society to human society ; Exogamy and endogamy ; Kinship ; ...