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Oswald Spengler, a Rare card
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Oswald Spengler quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oswald Spengler card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is best known for his two-volume work The ______ of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history.
Answer
Decline. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. From the Oswald Spengler article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He predicted that Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency around the year ____, which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism before Western civilization's final collapse.
Answer
2000s. He predicted that Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency around the year 2000, which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism before Western civilization's final collapse. From the Oswald Spengler article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history.
- Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.
- He predicted that Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency around the year 2000, which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism before Western civilization's final collapse.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oswald Spengler article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Oswald Spengler (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
