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  2. Civilization - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia were the oldest civilization in the world, beginning about 4000 BCE. Ancient Egypt is an example of an early culture civilization. [1]A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or ...

  3. Civility - Wikipedia

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    Adolf G. Gundersen and Suzanne Goodney Lea developed a civility model grounded in empirical data that "stresses the notion that civility is a sequence, not a single thing or set of things".

  4. Five Civilized Tribes - Wikipedia

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    The term "civilized tribes" was adopted to distinguish the Five Tribes from other Native American tribes that were described as "wild" or "savage". [11] [12] Texts written by non-indigenous scholars and writers have used words like "savage" and "wild" to identify Indian groups that retained their traditional cultural practices after European contact.

  5. Civilization state - Wikipedia

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    A civilization state, or civilizational state, [1] is a country that aims to represent not just a historical territory, ethnolinguistic group, or body of governance, but a unique civilization in its own right. [2]

  6. Savage (pejorative term) - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in about 2008, [17] the term became an American slang term meaning "bad-ass, cool, and violent". [ citation needed ] In 2019, while browsing orange shirts to honor Native victims of residential schools for Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation , a teacher at Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton came across an orange ...

  7. History of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    A map showing Charlemagne's additions (in light green) to the Germanic Frankish Kingdom. After his reign, the empire he created broke apart into the kingdom of France (from Francia meaning "land of the Franks"), Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom in between (containing modern day Switzerland, northern-Italy, Eastern France and the low-countries).

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  9. History of citizenship - Wikipedia

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    According to one view, citizenship as a subject of study is undergoing transformation, with increased interest while the meaning of the term continues to shift. [6] There is agreement citizenship is culture-specific: it is a function of each political culture.