HIST 1111 - What is a Civilization?

[thedelta]

angle makes the right ear look like the mouth of another face. can't unsee. dropped.

[blogintonblakley]

Here a better definition:

Civilization is a culture that uses a variety of hierarchically focused systems to render control of the resources everyone needs into a very few hands.

[BradyPostma]

Using the loaded, moral improvement sense of civilization, what is our aspiration for future civilization?

Star Trek attempted to answer that question, but I don't know what good, scholarly work has been done on that question.

[africanhistory]

PC is what stymies the debate and on the flipside, the discussion has been used historically to do some cruel things. But it is a device for discussing human development and people need the maturity to understand it in that critical context and not see it as it is often used— as a value judgment.

[margaretdonahue]

My comment was abruptly removed...related to civility....huge censorship

[africanhistory]

So if writing is needed then what about Great Zimbabwe