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  1. I What Makes Us Human? Philosophy · Biology
  2. II Why Do Civilisations Rise and Fall? History · Economics
  3. III How Do We Know What Is True? Epistemology
  4. IV The Story of Human Language Linguistics
  5. V Our Quest for Meaning Philosophy · Religion

Volume II

Why Do Civilisations Rise and Fall?

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You

Why do civilisations rise and fall? Every summary I have read stops at the word “complexity”.

The Guide

Then let us start where the summaries stop. Rome, the morning after the empire left Britain. What broke first: the coin, the road, or the story people told about themselves?

You

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