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World History in Five
Epochs of Civilization
Links to stories of the first four epochs of civilization:
A Short History of Civilization I - How government has developed since the Sumerian and Egyptian city states (1999) 14,388 words
A Short History of Civilization II - How world religion became a power center in society (1999) 15,265 words
A Short History of Civilization III - Development of European and world culture following the Renaissance (1999) 14,635 words
A Short History of Civilization IV - The emergence of the entertainment culture as today’s civilization (1999) 14,36l words
What the fifth and future civilizations may bring:
Using world history to predict the future - Patterns in the first four epochs of civilization guide us toward the future (2001) 5,385 words (formerly Google’s top-rated site for the search words “predict the future”)
Intimations of a fifth civilization - How human society and culture may follow the capabilities of computing machines (1999) 13,765 words
Speculations on human life in outer space - Our human identity lies ultimately in our culture and seed. (1986) 1,955 words
More on civilizations:
What is a Civilization? - A society or a culture? (1999) 1,046 words
A Short History of Communication Technologies - From written language to the Internet, the invention of new communication techniques has changed human culture (1999) 13,829 words
Diagram of Emerging Institutions in Civilized Society - The social mitosis or process of cell-like division applied to human societies (2001) 90 words
Religion in the five epochs of civilization - Society’s spiritual orientation changes with the times (1999) 15,331 words
See the website at http://www.worldhistorysite.com which has a complete set of writings on this subject.
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