What is civilization?

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What is civilization?

• The word "civilization" comes from the Latin word
  for townsman or citizen, civis, and its
  adjectival form, civilis. To be "civilized"
  essentially meant being a townsman, governed by
  the constitution and legal statutes of that
  community

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The Rise Of Civilization

• The first people of the world, did they live in
  societies?
• Were there Wal-marts for the first people? Were
  there Starbucks, and what type of cell phones did
  they use?

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The rise of civilization

• Civilization is defined as highly organized
  society marked by advanced knowledge of trade,
  government, arts, science and often time written
  language

The Parthenon in Athens is an example of
classical Greek Civilization.
The ruins of Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the
Incas," has become the most recognizable symbol
of the Inca civilization.
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What is the first know society

• The earliest known civilizations (as defined in
  the traditional sense) arose in Mesopotamia
  between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in
  modern-day Iraq, Persia in modern-day Iran, the
  Nile valley of Egypt. The inhabitants of these
  areas built cities, created writing systems,
  learned to make pottery and use metals,
  domesticated animals, and created complex social
  structures with class systems.

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Location of the Asia minor

• Its name means 'Lesser Asia'. Asia Minor is a
  region of the ancient world that corresponds
  roughly to modern day Turkey, and is the area
  were major civilization is thought to begin.

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Who were the empire builders

• The Hittites conquered most of the local people
  in the Asia minor area and set up city states.

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