alt Hacker News> Doesn't civilization just literally mean a system of living together in a city?
The classic checklist definition is: cities, writing, centralized state, agriculture, social stratification with rulers.
> Doesn't civilization just literally mean a system of living together in a city?
The classic checklist definition is: cities, writing, centralized state, agriculture, social stratification with rulers.
Which is what Rome would do to any group of people they came across. Rome defined "civilizatons" and other groups ended up conforming.