Civilizational analysis divides humanity into five great culture areas.

Evidence

To these works could be added the last, tragically marked work of Louis Hartz, A Synthesis of World History (Zurich: Humanity Press, 1983), which “with remarkable prescience,” as Samuel Beer commented, “foresees a division of mankind very much like the present pattern of the post–Cold War world” into five great “culture areas”: Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Confucian, and African. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 921

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the five-civilization division that motivated the title of the book.