0 human society with its well developed social organizations, or the culture and way of life of a society or country at a particular period in time: --
1 the process of educating a society so that its culture becomes more developed: --
2 a highly developed culture, including its social organization, government, laws, and arts, or the culture of a social group or country at a particular time: --
There is a strong likelihood that other advanced civilizations would progress through the same application of uranium.
Information disseminated by interlopers, working on local suspicions, bred misconceptions-a catalyst that accelerated and intensified the collision of civilizations.
A civilization's pattern languages are often synonymous with its technical and cultural heritage.
The essence of this technological development is visible in the remarkable difference between large-scale projects in the early modern period and in ancient urban civilizations.
We can open up the question of why science should have taken such different for ms in different ancient civilizations.
Only great inventions have made it possible for civilizations to keep from sliding back into cycles of repetition.
Moreover, their analysis does not examine differences in the levels of support within specific civilizations.
Cultures and civilizations seem to oppose one another just as contrasting ideologies once did.