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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.
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"It's impossible to describe the end of a society while ignoring its beginning and growth, so this book turns out to be a straightforward history of civilization in general."
"Cooper addresses a new public in new ways, through a mastery of anecdotage and accessible storytelling."
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