Private lecturer Dr. Daniel Hildebrand, Frankfurt am Main; Germany
Abstract
There is no obvious answer to this question: “What determines the rise and fall of civilizations?”. This is a question that has been confronted for thousands of years of research. The discipline of universal history, which today is almost forgotten, was ultimately responsible for the same task as the classical, especially ancient-historical historiography of past centuries mostly felt obliged to a practical benefit. In this paper, an attempt is made to offer a hypothesis based on which the causes of the rise and fall of a civilization be determined.
