civilization

(noun)

An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.

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Examples of civilization in the following topics:

  • The Guatemalan Civil War

  • The Syrian Civil War

  • The Russian Civil War

  • The Chinese Civil War

  • The Indus River Valley Civilization

    • The Indus Civilization was the most widespread of the three early civilizations of the ancient world, along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
    • At its peak, the Indus Valley Civilization may had a population of over 5 million people.
    • In 1912, John Faithfull Fleet, an English civil servant working with the Indian Civil Services, discovered several Harappan seals.
    • The Great Bath at Mohenjo-daro, a city in the Indus River Valley Civilization.
    • Identify the importance of the discovery of the Indus River Valley Civilization
  • Indus Valley Civilization

    • The Indus Valley Civilization was an urban civilization from 3300-1300 BCE that covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
    • The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age urban civilization that existed from 3300-1300 BCE and covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
    • Situated around the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River, the Indus Valley civilization is also known as the Harappan civilization, named after Harappa, the first city to be excavated in the 1920s.
    • Socially, the Indus Civilization appears to have been relatively egalitarian in nature.
    • After the collapse, regional cultures emerged showing influence of the Indus Valley Civilization to varying degrees.
  • The Caral Civilization

    • The Caral civilization flourished in the Andean region between the 30th and 18th centuries BCE.
    • The Caral civilization (also known as the Norte Chico civilization and as Caral-Supe) was a complex pre-Columbian society, located  in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru (200 km north of Lima).
    • It has been established as the oldest known civilization in the Americas, and as one of the six sites where civilization separately originated in the ancient world.
    • Its urban plan was used by Andean civilizations for the next four thousand years.
    • The most impressive achievement of these civilizations was its monumental architecture, including large earthwork platform mounds and sunken circular plazas.
  • Civil Law and Criminal Law

    • Civil law differs from criminal law, which emphasizes punishment rather than dispute resolution.
    • The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contract is part of civil law.
    • The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law.
    • In civil law there is the attempt to right a wrong, honor an agreement, or settle a dispute.
    • Puerto Rico, a former Spanish colony, is also a civil law jurisdiction of the United States.
  • Legislative Change

    • The consistent struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and efforts of hundreds of thousands anonymous African Americans forced legislators to enact a series of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
    • Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 seemed to indicate a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights, the legislation was limited.
    • The media coverage and violent backlash, with the murders of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi, contributed to national support for civil rights legislation.
    • Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • The Civil Rights Acts

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
    • In a civil rights speech on June 11, 1963, President John F.
    • Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
    • Kennedy, who called for the passage of a civil rights bill.
    • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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