"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
There are also other historians of civilization with interesting research achievements, for example, the Polish historian and philosopher, Feliks Koneczny, who expressed a view that ethics is the most important factor deciding about growth and development of civilization
”It also seems to be a law of history that every death, interregnum, and rebirth of civilisation is accompanied by a change of locality. Modern Western civilisation made its first progress not in Greece and Southern Italy, which had nurtured its parent, but on the almost virgin soil of outlying provinces of the Roman Empire; and even Near Eastern civilisation started, away from the centres of Ancient Greek culture, in inner Anatolia, and expanded among the unsophisticated Slavs.” check out his great book on the Western Question, you can find the text as open source on the web
This book is the real humanistic history book in all the world ... reaction between civilisations ... challenge and response...and above all his big and profonde recognation of ibn khaldoune ... contribution from zarfa the son of tobna and alkahina the algerian the simite
Edward Gibbon......Oswald Spengler......Arnold J Toynbee.....3 of the greatest Historians......and are not studied in todays universities......the Challenge is there, & the universities, are not Responding.....
