Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "What do we mean by 'civilisation'?" video.

  1. What is considered the first four civilizations really describes the areas that were non-nomadic, the most advanced, and at similar levels of development and government. There were others places, which were older and might be considered a community, but not considered "civilized." I'm not sure how civilized the people that built Göbekli Tepe were, but they were more advanced than most, at that time, because of what they built. . The first four, known as the first "civilizations," especially Mesopotamia, had government (4,000 BCE), and law (Code of Urukagina 2,380–2,360 BC), and were advanced in language (Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European, 4,500 BCE), writing (3200 BC), mathematics, architecture, and skill. What I have found is that civilization followed the pastoral-farming people, and their language, which spread from the areas on either side of the Caucasus, as well as the lands on either side of the mountain ranges leading to the Indus Valley, and the Urals, which goes back to the domestication of the Aurochs, (wild cattle), and the change from hunter gatherer to farming and herding. They had also domesticated the horse, and invented the wheel and wagon, or chariot, which created an unstoppable military. It's also why the early civilization's ruling class wore cattle horns on their headdress, and even venerated cattle. . However, the domestication of the Aurochs supposedly occurred around 8,000 BCE, and over the next 2,000 years, what became known as the first four non-nomadic agricultural "civilizations," which were tied to the Proto-Indo-European language, sprang up from that by about 6,000 to 5,500 BCE in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere. . "A "civilized" way of life is ultimately linked to conditions coming almost exclusively from intensive agriculture. Gordon Childe defined the development of civilization as the result of two successive revolutions: the Neolithic Revolution, triggering the development of settled communities, and the Urban Revolution, which enhanced tendencies towards dense settlements, specialized occupational groups, social classes, exploitation of surpluses, monumental public buildings and writing." . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
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