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What do you think about when you hear the word civilization? Do we really need it in order to survive and prosper on this planet? The real question is whether we can live above subsistence without the technological innovations that densely populated settlements generate. Moreover, the question is not as frivolous as it may seem at first glance. Many cultures throughout human history consciously decided not to take the route toward nucleated settlements and the resultant consequences. The Celts represent one example from the time line of our course of a people who preferred not to have cities. The Avars, a Turkic-speaking people from Central Asia, were pastoral nomads who acquired cities during the course of their conquests, yet they used cities in ways that would strike average city dwellers as most strange.

Define civilization in your own words, based on your understanding of the nine characteristics commonly associated with civilizations presented in Section 2.1 of your textbook, World history: The human experience to 1500.

Choose one society from the Week 1 Civilization Tour

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, which includes Mesopotamian, Olmec, Egyptian, Harappan, and Ancient Chinese societies.

Based on at least two of the characteristics listed in Section 2.1, explain why your chosen society can be considered a civilization.

Provide specific examples drawn from this week’s learning materials to support your claims. Cite and format all sources according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

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, using both in-text citations and providing full references at the bottom of your post. Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words, due on Day 3.

Prior to completing your post, please review the following resources:

Fassnacht, M., Fink, S., Jackson, R., and Warn, M.  (2016). The anatomy of a discussion board

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. Retrieved from https://www.criticalthinkingandreasoning.org/infographic

Fassnacht, M., Fink, S., Jackson, R., and Warn, M. (2016). Critical thinking guide to skillful reasoning

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. Retrieved from https://www.criticalthinkingandreasoning.org/evaluating-critical-thinking

Guided Responses: Respond to two colleagues who have examined a different society than the one you selected for your initial post. In each substantive post of at least 150 words, compare the society you chose to the one your colleague has examined. What similarities or differences do you see? What factors might explain your observations?

How would you respond in substantive post of at least 150 words, compare the society you chose to the one your colleague has examined? What similarities or differences do you see? What factors might explain your observations?

· When I hear the word civilization, I think of the famous cities and the vast network of different individuals within its limits. Civilization would have a government, social structure, and ways of sustaining itself and its citizens, i.e., water, sewage, food, currency. Through the growing population of cities and the opportunities, nomadic life could have become less popular. With more citizens in such proximity to each other combined with the low sanitation of most ancient cities, you would risk disease and develop sickness that could lead to an epidemic. Today’s civilizations stand a great deal different than an ancient culture. The primary key factor would be the technological advancement, with even ancient Rome being confined to the Iron age over its lengthy course. The society I have chosen is Mesopotamia. Located in the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia was a collection of diverse cultures, which their religion, literature, and laws tied them together. One prominent characteristic that makes Mesopotamia a civilization is religion. The Sumerians worshipped numerous gods, with each city-state having a leading god. “The Sumerians built temples to honor these gods, and each temple had its priests, who performed a host of tributary ceremonies, festivals, and sacrifices to please the gods.” (Mahdavi, F., 2012). The writing system, called “Cuneiform,” was used to keep track of receipts and payment of goods such as livestock and grains. They would draw the shape and how much they were selling. With time the writing tablets were used to record, “economic transactions, religious mythology, hymns, proverbs, and religious essays in detail for future generations.” (Mahdavi, F., 2012). The writing system played such a vital role in the advancement of this civilization and many to come, including the United States.  Both religion and a writing system are characteristics found in chapter 2.1 of the reading and are crucial aspects that every civilization, advanced and ancient, would comprise of. For my use Albert Ruiz

References:

Mahdavi, F. (2012). World history: The human experience to 1500 [Electronic version].

Retrieved from: https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUHIS103.12.2/sections/sec2.2

How would you respond in substantive post of at least 150 words, compare the society you chose to the one your colleague has examined? What similarities or differences do you see? What factors might explain your observations?

· 1. Define civilization in your own words, based on your understanding of the nine characteristics commonly associated with civilizations presented in Section 2.1 of your textbook, World History: The human experience to 1500. 

What is civilization? I think the word civilization means that the people would get together at a social even within their cultures and talk about whatever their culture does. Also, civilization would start out with the basic coexisting and then go a little bit farther in their culture to become a multi-conglomerate group. 

2. Choose one society from Week 1 Civilization Tour, which includes Mesopotamian, Olmec, Egyptian, Harappan, and Ancient Chinese societies.

I decided to choose Olmec (500-300BC) because the mask looked like a Halloween mask at first until I started to read about the Olmen. Then, it said that they ruled and was known to us as the Mexico people which I didn't know at the time. The Mexico people approximately 1,000 years ago or more were or are the oldest in the Central America.  They were also known to be found in the other civilization, for example, Mayan and the Aztec. A guy named Carlo Winters said that the Olmec's played a role in the Mexican culture and their heritage as well. 

3. Based on at least two of the characteristics listed in Section 2.1, explain why you have chosen society can be considered a civilization. 

The two characteristics I choose was Social order and Religion because the Olmecs decided to set apart and was considered that the civilization was that the writing that they have found. The archeologists did find some kind of writing back in 2004 which was a hieroglyphic writing that was the Olmec writing. This writing was discovered by the Mesoamerican or the Mayan writing before the aforementioned was ever discovered back in 2004. So, the writing that was found came from the Mesoamerican cultures writing. Within the Olmec society, the civilization could be classified as the Urbanization. The Olmecs had the calendars and hieroglyphics which had the height from the 700 and 400BC. The Olmecs was the first ones to have a Mesoamerican ballgame, writing, and epigraphy. 

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