List of Civilizations
The following table lists the 23 civilizations identified by Toynbee in the book. This table does not include what Toynbee terms primitive societies, arrested civilizations, or abortive civilizations. Civilizations are shown in boldface. Toynbee's "Universal Churches" are written in italic and are chronologically located between second- and third- generation civilizations, as is described in volume VII.
| 1st Generation | 2nd Generation | Universal Church | 3rd Generation |
| Minoan | Hellenic (Greek and Roman) | Christian | Western; Orthodox-Russian; Orthodox-Byzantine |
| Shang | Sinic (see also Han Dynasty) | Mahayana (Buddhism) | Chinese; Japanese-Korean ("Far Eastern") |
| Indus | Indic | Hinduism | Hindu |
| Syriac Society | Iranic; Arabic | Islam | Islamic |
| Egyptiac | - | - | |
| Sumeric | Hittite; Babylonian | - | - |
| Andean; Mayan; Yucatec; Mexic | - | - | |
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