Abstract

This book aims to examine how cultures survive, evolve, or become extinct during their struggles over the course of development through the combined influences of religious, social, economic, scientific, political, and philosophical movements across many centuries. Using an observational system and research methodologies incorporating art, lit erature, and architectural forms, this book explores how a different set of cultural, economic, and political belief systems representing the authority group may engage some groups in society but disengage others, leading to conflicts or the destruction of culture over the long term. This book also explores the natural relationships within a society and between groups and individuals based on their practices and system of ideas, social attitudes, and cultural values or their religious, philosophical, economic, and political beliefs.