What is a Civilization?

What is a civilization? This is a big question that some experts still debate it to find the best definition, especially between archeologists who have a definition of civilization for earlier civilization and anthropologist whose definition concern about recent civilization. However, both early and late civilization has many evidences that proof many steps of process in formating a civilization. Surprisedly, some research has found the remarkable evolving process from earlier civilization to the more modern one. Understanding the formationprocess of the civilization is believed can help us to define what a civilization is. Generally, forming a civilization takes a long-complex process and has some certain components as support.

Homo sapiens is a human-liked species, existed on the earth by 10,000 B.C.E, known as “Ice Age” era. They lived in some groups primitively by hunting animal and gathering the plants as their food resources. According to the name of the era, the Earth was covered by ice, and it’s understood that hunting the animals was hard to do because they were dormant in the winter where the temperatures about 30oF (-1oC) and active only in the summer which was about 60oF (16oC) (Smith, 2004), so do plant. These two reasons-lack of foods and bad season urged this initial humans to move to another place that can support their live. Beside that, sometimes they got inter-group clash that made some of them should roam to get a new land to settle temporary. So, that’s why this unorganized human groups called as nomad. However, even primitive, they had a basic skill to paint, usually in a cave wall, because they often live in a cave. Researchers are trying to understand what these paints for, but some of them argue that thes...

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...has been constructed at the first civilization, and the late civilization completed it rely on their need.

Generally speaking, civilization is an advance structure of intelligence and organized well of human society that including ideology, culture, politic, economy, social and security. The complexity of recent civilization as a result of the improvement of the old one, according to changing in the life and the demand of human. From time to time, recent civilization will lead both the development or the destruction and re-evolve to build the new civilization with more complex components.

Works Cited

Smith, Lorraine, C. (2004). Exploring Content 1: Reading for Academic Success. New York: Longman. Pg.114

Butler,C. (January 16, 2012). Farmers, Nomads, and the Spread of Civilization, from The Flow of History website http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/pre/2/fc9.