and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.

* The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, volume 1, by Alfred Bates.

* Remembrance of Synagogues Past: The Lost Civilization of the Jewish South Bronx by Seymour Perlin,

Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy " 4X "- type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

In 1999, Activision released Civilization: Call to Power, a sequel of sorts to Civilization II but created by a completely different design team.

Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).

Call to Power spawned a sequel in 2000, but by then Activision had lost the rights to the Civilization name and could only call it Call to Power II.

The oldest known structures which have served as citadels were built by the Indus Valley Civilization, where the citadel represented a centralised authority.

Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

This Bronze Age civilization collapsed before the end of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas.

A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".

* Histoire de la folie à l ' âge classique ( Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason ), a book by Michel Foucault

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

* The Reformation, the sixth volume of The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant, focusing on the Protestant Reformation

Turkmenistan was a passing point for numerous migrations and invasions by tribes which gravitated towards the settled regions of the south including ancient Mesopotamia, Elam, and the Indus Valley Civilization.

They released only one album, 1979's ( GI ) ( produced by Joan Jett ) and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris ' documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement.

Founded at a conference in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria, that was attended by Othmar Anderlie, Pitirim Sorokin, and Arnold Toynbee, this is an international association of scholars that publishes a journal, Comparative Civilization Review, and hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.

The significance of this was phenomenal, as it allowed the new Guanxian irrigation system to populate an area of some 40 by 50 miles ( 60 × 80 km ) with over five million people, still in use today ( Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Part 3, 288 ).

He continued to use it on his studio albums until his death in 1993, culminating in the posthumous release of his magnum opus Civilization, Phaze III ( by Zappa's estimation, 70 % of this two-hour work is exclusively Synclavier.

Bahrain has been proposed as the possible site of Dilmun, a land mentioned by Mesopotamians as a trade partner, source of raw material, copper, and entrepot of the Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization trade route.

* Macedonia-A Civilization Uncovered, BBC documentary on the excavations in Macedonia held by archaeologist Manolis Andronikos

Civilization is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibsons Games ), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

AH also acquired Jedko Games ' The Russian Campaign and War at Sea, and Hartland Trefoil's Civilization.

** Civilization III, developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2001

** Civilization IV, developed by Soren Johnson for Firaxis Games and released in 2005

** Civilization Revolution developed by Firaxis Games released in 2008

** Civilization V, developed by Firaxis Games, and released in September 2010

Sid Meier's Civilization IV ( also known as Civilization 4 or Civ4 ) is a turn-based strategy, 4X computer game released in 2005 and developed by lead designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and Meier's studio Firaxis Games.

Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games.

" GameSpot featured Utopia in its series Unsung Heroes: Ground Breaking Games, calling it a " surprisingly complex game ( often referred to as " Civilization 0. 5 ") laid the foundation for PC sim classics such as Civilization and SimCity.

The rules of the game were close to Civilization, while the client / server architecture was basically that of XPilot.

< http :// www. uta. edu / huma / illuminations / kell12. htm ></ ref > his best known works are Eros and Civilization ( 1955 ) and One-Dimensional Man ( 1964 ).

* Jarrige, C, J. F. Jarrige, R. H. Meadow, G. Quivron, eds ( 1995 / 6 ), Mehrgarh Field Reports 1974-85: From Neolithic times to the Indus Civilization.

Gimbutas gained fame — and notoriety — with her last three books: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe ( 1974 ); The Language of the Goddess ( 1989 ), which inspired an exhibition in Wiesbaden, 1993 / 94 ; and her final book, The Civilization of the Goddess ( 1991 ), which based on her documented archeological findings presented an overview of her conclusions about Neolithic cultures across Europe: housing patterns, social structure, art, religion, and the nature of literacy.

Like Civilization, Colonization features a map editor so that players can make their own worlds / scenarios in addition to the included map of the Americas or the game's randomly-generated ones.

There are claims that Sid Meier talked Bunten into doing Axis and Allies ( which became 1990's Command HQ, a modem / network World War II game ), while Meier did Civilization, which went on to become one of the best-selling video games of all time.

* Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization, West Publishing Co. Minneapolis, 1994 for the English-language version of the quote from Abbé Sieyès, quoted at http :// www. magnesium. net /~ locutus / work / eurohist2. htm.

* The Ancient Egyptians and the origin of Civilization ( London / New York, Harper & Brother 1911 ).

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* Ernest R. Lacheman et al., Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians: Volume 4-The Eastern Archives of Nuzi and Excavations at Nuzi 9 / 2, Eisenbrauns, 1993, ISBN 0-931464-64-1

* David I. Owen and Ernest R. Lacheman, Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians: Volume 5-General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 9 / 3, Eisenbrauns, 1995, ISBN 0-931464-67-6

* HEAL w / various artists Civilization Vs. Technology ( Elektra-1991 )

* Madness and Partition: The Short Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Stephen Alter, Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 14, Madness and Civilization / al-Junun wa al-Hadarah ( 1994 ), pp. 91 – 100.

* Civilization V-Peacetime background / soundtrack music for the English empire.

* Welcome Back to Civilization, Dead Man ( aka Man From Sumatra / George Carson Killed )

In Sid Meier's Civilization series, it may be important for either economic or military reasons to build railroads as fast as possible, and doing this efficiently requires considerable micromanagement of Settler / Engineer units.

Darkness Civilization mainly concentrates on destroying creatures via " Slayer " or card effects, discarding cards from opponents hand, self destructing creatures, sacrificing creatures, mana and shields for benefit, milling from opponent's and / or own deck and picking up one's own shields ( may or may not allow Shield Trigger abilities ).

The Nature Civilization focuses on mana increasing, high cost and power ratio creatures, searching deck for creatures, power limited unblockability, moving creatures from / to mana zone, creatures that break shields when blocked, forcing blockers to block, creature / spell cost reduction and shield trigger canceling effects.

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