Civilization is what man has made of himself.

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.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.

Civilization ( or civilisation ) is a sometimes controversial term that has been used in several related ways.

The Indus Civilization was the earliest center of ceramics, and thus the pottery of Cholistan has a long history.

It has been suggested that a seal from bronze age India belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization and referred to as Pashupati resembled Cernunnos.

The Indus Valley Civilization ( also known as Harappan culture ) has its earliest roots in cultures such as that of Mehrgarh, approximately 6000 BCE.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

* Shaka Zulu has been featured as leader of the Zulu Civilization in most of the Civilization video games.

This has earned the region the nickname " The Cradle of Civilization.

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.

The notion that biological psychiatry is a real science or a genuine branch of medicine has been challenged by other critics as well, such as Michel Foucault in Madness and Civilization ( 1961 ), and Erving Goffman in Asylums ( 1961 ).

Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game ( appearing to refer to the first version of the game series ) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the ' Outside Context Problem ' central to the novel.

It has been compared to Montesquieu's L ' Esprit des lois, The Spirit of the Laws and covers no small part of the field of Buckle's first volume of the History of Civilization.

As He listens to the screaming of the shells, the crashing of monstrous guns, all the ghastly symphony of the reddest war mankind has ever known, His heart must recognize the bitter truth in the statement of one of the world's foremost educators — That in nineteen centuries Civilization has failed to accept honestly the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Canadian Museum of Civilization anthropologist Diamond Jenness has compared the tribe to Vikings.

The ridge was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, allowing the city to stand above the surrounding plain, but the flooding of the river has since buried most of the ridge in deposited silt.

Though there is no evidence that priests or monarchs ruled Mohenjo-daro, archeologists dubbed this dignified figure a " Priest-King "; like the Dancing Girl, it has become symbolic of the Indus Valley Civilization.

In addition, Portugal has three Discovery-branded channels: Discovery Turbo ( motorsports ), Discovery Science ( science and technology ) and Discovery Civilization ( ancient history, crimes, terrorist attacks, etc .).

This game, designed for 3 to 6 players, has kept only a few features of Civilization, such as commodities ( no longer collectible cards but territories ) and the civilization advances ( no longer cards but ticks in a check list ).

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

In 1999, Civilization was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

According to Rolf Alfred Stein author of Tibetan Civilization, the area of Shang Shung was not historically a part of Tibet and was a distinctly foreign territory to the Tibetans.

Civilization developed and flourished during the Pre – Columbian era with little contact among the cultures external to Mesoamerica.

The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was the first major civilization in South Asia.

Indigenous peoples flourished in this region, near the gateways to other continents, leading to a developed civilization in 5th to 4th millennium BC, the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.

An ancient prehistoric culture, the Zayandeh River Civilization, flourished along the banks of the Zayandeh in the 6th Millennium BC.

The Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1700 BCE, in and around western Punjab region located in present-day India and Pakistan.

Early inhabitants, around 3000 BC were likely to have been connected through culture and trade to neighboring civilizations like Jiroft and Tappeh Sialk and more distantly to the Indus Valley Civilization.

Civilization developed concurrently with the Fertile Crescent in the ancient Mediterranean islands around Greece from about 3200 to 1000 BCE and carried to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome that is considered the Classical era in the Western world.

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.

It first appears in the archaeological record here around 2500 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization.

Built around 2600 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete.

It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture.

The Civilization board depicts areas around the Mediterranean Sea.

Corduroy roads were built in Glastonbury, England in 3300 BCE and brick-paved roads were built in the Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent from around the same time.

A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture is evident in the Indus Valley Civilization which thrived in present-day Pakistan and western parts of the modern day Republic of India from around 2600 BC.

Civilization III, like the other Civilization games, is based around building an empire, from the ground up, beginning in 4, 000 BC and continuing slightly beyond the modern day.

The oldest evidence comes from the Indus Valley Civilization, around roughly 4500BC.

The Indus Valley Civilization went into decline around the year 1700 BC for reasons that are not entirely known, though its downfall was probably precipitated by a massive earthquake that dried up the Ghaggar River.

Excavation on many sites of the Gandhara Civilization are being done by researchers from Peshawar and several universities around the world.

Archaeological discoveries show that by about 3000 BCE the small communities in and around the Indus River basin had evolved and expanded giving rise to the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the earliest in human history.

Civilization began around the highly navigable Mediterranean Sea ...

Documented early plumbing systems for bathing go back as far as around 3300 BC with the discovery of copper water pipes beneath a palace in the Indus Valley Civilization of ancient India ; see sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Metalcasting began in the Indus Valley Civilization around 3500 BC in the Mohenjodaro area, which produced the earliest known example of lost-wax casting, the Indian bronze figurine named the “ dancing girl ” that dates back nearly 5, 000 years to the Harappan period.

The world's first tidal dock is believed to have been built at Lothal around 2300 BCE during the Indus Valley Civilization, near the present day Mangrol harbour on the Gujarat coast.

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