What is a civilzation??

Question

What is a civilization? (Simple easy to understand awnser please!)

Answer 1

Basically a civilisation is an organised society of people living and working together to feed and (if necessary) clothe themselves and provide themselves with shelter.

The word civilisation comes from the Latin word "civilis" meaning a townsman or citizen and distinguishes those people who have settled into some kind of community, from others who are hunter/gatherers, or nomadic shepherds, or travelling traders.

Answer 2

Doshieal is on the right track. Generally a civilization is a complex society in which people live in cities, have a written language, produce enough surplus products to have a trading network, have a division of labor, and a complex political organization.

Answer 3

civilisation is human society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in cities.

Compared with less complex cultures, members of a civilization are organized into a diverse division of labour and an intricate social hierarchy.

The term civilization is often used as a synonym for culture in both popular and academic circles.[1] Every human being participates in a culture, defined as "the arts, customs, habits... beliefs, values, behavior and material habits that constitute a people's way of life".[2] Civilizations can be distinguished from other cultures by their high level of social complexity and organization, and by their diverse economic and cultural activities.

The term civilization has been defined and understood in a number of ways different from the standard definition. Sometimes it is used synonymously with the broader term culture. Civilization can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century English anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, for example, civilization was "the total social heredity of mankind;"[3] in other words, civilization was the totality of human knowledge and culture as represented by the most "advanced" society at a given time.[4] Civilization can be used in a normative sense as well: if complex and urban cultures are assumed to be superior to other "savage" or "barbarian" cultures, then "civilization" is used as a synonym for "superiority of certain groups." In a similar sense, civilization can mean "refinement of thought, manners, or taste".[5] However, in its most widely used definition, civilization is a descriptive term for a relatively complex agricultural and urban culture.