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Encyclopedia > Civilization (disambiguation)

The word Civilization has a number of meanings:

Entertainment: A civilization or civilisation has a variety of meanings related to human society. ... ... Look up Culture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikinews has a related story: Culture and entertainment Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Cultural Development in Antiquity Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Culture and Civilization in Modern Times Classificatory system for cultures and civilizations, by Dr. Sam Vaknin Categories: Culture... Etiquette is the code that governs the expectations of social behavior, the conventional norm. ... The White Mans Burden is a Eurocentric view of the world used to encourage powerful nations to adopt an imperial role. ...


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Civilization (2553 words)
Civilizations are distinguished from tribal societies such as hunter-gatherers and pastoral nomads.
The thesis that civilizations represent relatively homogeneous cultural spheres was central to the thinking of Oswald Spengler, who defined the coherence of a civilization as its organization around a single primary cultural symbol.
The degree to which Aegean civilization is autochthonous, having emerged from the culture of Old Europe, or is derived from Afroasiatic cultures of Egypt and the Levant is subject to debate.
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