Civilization and great historical rivers. Mechnikov Lev Ilyich

Lev Ilyich Mechnikov (1838-1888)-a bright Russian scientist (ethnographer, geographer, historian), creative figure (artist, writer), polyglot, revolutionary-anarchist and participant in Garibaldian campaigns, was one of the founders of the soci-knowing approach to the analysis of the world Stories based on the line -evolutionary concept of the development of society and civilization. The geographical factor, or rather, the nature of water resources is considered as one of the main causes of this development. The history of mankind is divided into three stages: river, marine and ocean - forced, subordinate and free unions. About civilizations that arose on the banks of the great rivers, and the author tells in his main work, first published in 1889