Friday, August 22, 2008

What is Civilization?


In my point of view civilization is a mixture of elements related to culture and social contents. For example in history a civilization could be understood as a big group of people that had something specific to do, a special function such being the archer or being in charge or a blacksmith working in a forge. This is meanly organization of people which make you be a civilized society.

Also we can understand civilization as something that has to do with history in terms of not committing same mistakes than before and the development of important areas that a progress involves, for example art, literature, manufacture of buildings and of course technology. This means that in a civilization we will see and implies an advance or evolution of perception of art in terms of the context in which we make this “art”, and how we added it to the epoch we are living in. Ancient buildings for example leave a legacy in the world and it says that we have history and we belong to this olden times in which we have participated before being organized.