Sujet : Re: The joy of Civilization
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 31. Oct 2024, 02:57:05
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On 31 Oct 2024 00:06:33 GMT, rbowman wrote:
You might say civilization was alive and well in
contemporary Europe, but it was vanishing in the Americas about a
millennium ago.
Civilization originated in Mesopotamia. I have a book in my shelf on a
generalist introduction to the archaeology of the earliest civilizations,
and it has a specific set of features that a society has to have to be
classed as a “civilization”:
* Urbanization
* Division of labour
* Metalworking
* Writing
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