1. A person looking at our culture today might see many buildings, and have different opinions about which is the most important. For example, they might see the largest and most important buildings as grocery shops, and malls. This shows how we live in a very consumerist society whereas an ancient society would probably be centered around spiritual buildings like ziggurats, so those cultures were much more focused on divinities.
2. The most valid criteria for a culture to be considered a civilization would be an ability to write, a complexity to the social group, and distinct functions that are established, and having some technological advancement, like working with metals.
How do the primary and secondary characteristics of civilization that we discussed in our class last Tuesday further explicate the definition of civilization?
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