“Arnold J. Toynbee explained the rise, growth, and decline of civilizations through the concepts of environmental challenges, human groups’ responses to them, and the imitation of creative minorities and masses, analyzing the process by which civilizations successfully respond to external challenges. British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, in A Study of History, established...
How does Arnold J. Toynbee’s concept of “challenge and response” explain the growth and decline of civilizations?
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