A French historian Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) was a “structuralist” who perceived human development to occur in three historical structures (“measures of time”): the quasi-immobile structure (la longue durée), the intermediate scale of “conjectures,” (rarely longer than a few generations), and the rapid time-scale of events. In his book, A History of Civilizations (French edition 1987, American edition 1993), he assumes that the history of human development is the history of civilization. Civilization for him is a process rather than a temporarily stabilized construct. He perceives one civilization as a human continuum or, depending upon the context, he may recognize hundreds of civilizations (for example, “Roman Civilization” or “Industrial Civilization”). The correct answer is A.