Talk:A Study of History

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Contents 1 Headline text 2 Link on this page is dead 3 Source 4 Time of Troubles 5 Ghana? 6 Ethipia and Tibet????

[edit] Headline text

itBold text's the JV, baby, and we're working with something here!!!!

[edit] Link on this page is dead

Living the Vision

Fixed. Bastie 18:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Source

Who says this is the longest written work in English?

Charles Matthews 15:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time of Troubles

A section on what constitutes a "Time of Troubles" would be useful, especially since the term is used in the article more than once. I'll write it in myself, if and when I finish reading the books. GrubLord 14:48, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghana?

The last lines complaining of Ghana being treated differently from Ireland and Scandinavia seem odd. The reason Toynbee considered these abortive civilazations is because they were so quickly absorbed into the Christian and Western world and had little opportunity to show what they could do independently. Ghana had 1,000-2,000 years to show the world what it could do. It was not aborted.

[edit] Ethipia and Tibet????

In fact, Toynbee does mention Ethiopia (Abysinnia)and Tibet. But he considers them "living fossils" of civilisations which have disapeared. The first one would be a fossil of the Syriac civilisation (as other monosophistic Christians, such as those living in Egypt). The other one would be a fossil of one of Indian civilisation, as long as other Buddist societies, such us Mongolian Mahayanna Buddhists or Burma Hinayanna Buddhists. All this is stated in "A study of History, Volume 1" (July 2007)