Questions tagged [civilizations]
Civilizations refers to a means to organize groups of people around common: culture, race, ethnicity, language, religion, national boundaries, etc. The organizing principles are not concrete. Questions about civilizations should be definite in scope, and related to the particular characteristic(s) that tie the civilization together.
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Has there ever been a civilization that had no human enemies? [closed]
Looking at history, it feels like countries/civilizations have historically had to have enemies. Sometimes the enemies are real, other times they're imagined, but there always must be an "enemy&...
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Why is the Maya civilization not considered one of the cradles of civilization?
I don't have a background in history, but I've been doing some reading about the Mayans on Wikipedia, and there's something I'm confused about.
The "cradles of civilization" page on ...
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Is there truth to the Dynastic Race Theory regarding Ancient Egyptians?
According to Dynastic Race Theory,
[T]he earliest roots of the ancient Egyptian dynastic civilisation were imported by invaders from Mesopotamia who then founded the First Dynasty and brought culture ...
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How do we reconcile hierarchical and violent aspects of Ancient Egypt with its nonviolent principle of Maat, as exemplified in negative confessions?
Maat represents and refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Ma'at was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the ...
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Is there any data that supports or refutes the claim made in this paper about the Harappan/Indus Valley civilization?
I came across an old article recently, about the collapse of the Harappan civilization. Here's the paper it is based on-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387054/
I found this to be the ...
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What was the role of the mountain ranges surrounding India in developing India's civilization?
I am reading 'The Wonder That Was India' by A.L.Basham. In chapter 1, Introduction the author says,
India's isolation has never been complete, and the effect of the mountain wall in developing her ...
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Any examples when one civilization/country got technology from another and after due to lack of knowledge lost it
I am wondering if there where actual cases when one civilization/country got advanced technology from another and due to lack of knowledge lost it. By advanced technology I mean that it was advanced ...
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Why is the Harappa (Indus Valley) civilization considered one of the six independent cradles of civilization?
In addition to the proven Sumerian presence in Harappa, all its crops originates in the Fertile Crescent or Far East, which proves that they have been influenced by foreigners since the Neolithic ...
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Has any war in recorded history ever resulted in the complete annihilation (civil and military) of an enemy - all of them killed with no survivors?
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In reviewing the Wiki topic on War of annihilation it is clear that there have been several examples (many of them in recent history) wherein the goal of a war was to utterly destroy an enemy ...
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What mesoamerican culture used long, "pike-like" spears?
A while back, I read about some Mesoamerican tribe or culture that armed many of its warriors with extremely long spears, that either the Spanish invaders or the article I read itself compared to the ...
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What is a good introduction into (western) civilization?
I recently asked this question:
How can we be certain of customs in the primitive age?
Here it was stated that the Durants' work is flawed and outdated to a certain extent.
Is there a more modern ...
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why were animals domesticated? (for meat and fur) [closed]
So my understanding is that it was not until the industrial revolution until people could eat farm animals commonly, while hunter gatherer groups subsisted on meat as the main part of their diet, so I ...
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Did Egyptian civilization start from North to South or vice versa?
I've been reading archeological claims that say that the ancient Egyptians came from the South and that the first chiefdoms and kings were in the south.
Some also claim that there is a crown of ...
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Were there any ancient civilisation that functioned without currency or bartering? [closed]
As required here is how I define the terms used in this question:
• money/currency: is something that has little use to the individuals (such as metal coins) but has a commonly recognized value the ...
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What is the difference between a culture and a civilization?
This is my first question on this site. So, I just hope I would be helped here.
As used by historians, what is the difference between a 'civilization' and a 'culture'?
I used Google to find some ...
