Civilization - Wikipedia Civilizations are organized around densely populated settlements, divided into more or less rigid hierarchical social classes of division of labour, often with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations, which engage in intensive agriculture, mining, small-scale manufacture and trade
Civilization - World History Encyclopedia Civilizations developed from hunter-gatherers who first established semi-permanent and then permanent communities after settling into an agrarian lifestyle and began to produce surplus food
Civilizations - National Geographic Society Scholars often differ over how to define “civilization” and how to categorize societies based on that definition – or whether to categorize them at all
Civilisation - definition of civilisation by The Free Dictionary Define civilisation civilisation synonyms, civilisation pronunciation, civilisation translation, English dictionary definition of civilisation Noun 1 civilisation - the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization civilization social process - a