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Explain the typical cycle of civilizations. What does this cycle say about human nature?

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Cycles of Human Civilization

Toynbee in his Study of History (1934), com- pared civilizations to organisms and perceived their existence in a life cycle of four stages: genesis, growth, breakdown, and disintegration. ... However, accord- ing to him, all civilizations that grow eventually reach a peak, from which they begin to decline.

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