Questions tagged [civilization]
For questions about groups of societies and their defining characteristics and achievements.
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What could be the next technological revolution for a society that has FTL travel tech? [closed]
In a society with FTL travel tech that is relatively mature (like a Star Wars or Star Trek civilization), what could be the next technological breakthrough BESIDES teleportation (as I feel ...
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Can a planet have a warm, tropical climate both at the poles and at the equator?
I am trying to create the perfect planet for life. It will mainly consist of shallow seas/oceans with archipelagos spread throughout the globe. The islands are the same size as New Guinea on average. ...
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River valley civilization in woodland steppe?
I'm creating an antiquity-age earthlike world starting at the early bronze age. One of my continental interiors is a large, fairly flat, hot steppe region predominantly covered in steppe woodland, ...
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If humans colonized Earth 100,000 years ago, would we know it?
Let's say that humans actually originate from another planet. An extinction level event happened on their home planet, and a handful of them escaped, wandering through space looking for a planet that ...
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Could a civilization have existed on earth when our planet was much smaller, and as earth gained more size could it have grew around and above them? [closed]
I want to create a civilization that were living on earth when the planet was a much smaller protoplanet or a planetesimal. If earth grew over billions of years, could a civilization have existed ...
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How might a civilization that comes after us be aided by the fact someone has been here and done it before?
Suppose a hypothetical apocalypse scenario that wipes out all human beings, but leaves infrastructure and the like behind. In particular, digital technologies are mostly unaffected. Consider then, ...
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Would medieval humans know if an ancient civilization had existed and been wiped out?
Let's say there was a society of lizard people that were highly intelligent, about 50 million years ago. They built permanent structures and developed up to an industrial tech level; they had iron ...
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Building a fictional city on a deserted island from scratch
I am writing a fantasy story in a fantasy world and I have a question about the development of cities. One of the major kingdoms in that world decides to build a city on a newly discovered deserted ...
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Minimum technology required to discover relativity?
As the title states, what’s the least-powerful technology a civilization needs before they are capable of developing and verifying an accurate theory of special & general relativity?
For details, ...
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Why would a warrior tribe be dependant on a pacifist tribe?
I have two small tribes which are in a similar, small geographical location. One of the civilisations is a group of warriors, called Wolves, who have trained to be warriors since children. The others, ...
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How does an explorer civilization survive the Dark Forest Scenario?
The Dark Forest hypothesis is one put forth by author Liu Cixin in a novel named thus, which essentially revolves around three primary assumptions:
There is life everywhere throughout the galaxy - ...
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How might civilization develop if hunter-gatherers and/or early agrarian civilizations had access to highly advanced technology? [closed]
Imagine a setting where, across numerous worlds: people without memory, identity or culture wake up surrounded by the ruins and technologies of a highly advanced spacefaring civilization that ...
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Chosing civilization types for an interstellar galaxy-wide world [closed]
So, I need multiple civilizations interacting in an interstellar world of the size of a galaxy.
But my current view now is that all interstellar civilizations will be AI-driven and based and ...
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What time units would a civilisation constantly travelling between planets and universes use? [duplicate]
While it's possible for an advanced enough civilisation to get some value from atoms and record it in a computer, how would a civilisation without that technology first develop some form of time ...
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How much time would it take to build a small medieval city/village/town with a wall surrounding it? [closed]
What I'm asking is how many months would it take for around 50,000 people to build an urban medieval settlement that is circular and surrounded by a wall made of brick/stone to protect against magic ...
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