its when humans get together, build cities, create art, make laws and occasionally invent bureaucracy just to keep things interesting
key attributes
- territory
- governance
- economy
- technology
- art
- architecture
- language
civilization types as key to understand our underdevelopment
look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: spirits of religion, creative art, research, and business enterprise
unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace