The Roman historian Livy was more of a teller of tales, and he invoked the intervention of the gods to explain cause and effect. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Augustine's City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and continued by such lesser men as Isidore of Seville. ... The two forms were not infrequently mixed. ... But by far the greatest medieval Arabic historian was Ibn Khaldun, who created an early version of sociological history to account for the rise and decline of cities and civilizations. ...

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