Are civilization and conflict related? If so, how?
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By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Technically, anthropologists distinguish civilizations in which many of the people live in cities and get their food from agriculture, from band and tribal societies in which people live in small settlements or nomadic groups and subsist by foraging, hunting, or working small horticultural gardens. When used in this sense, civilization is an exclusive term, applied to some human groups and not others.\n\n\nThe earliest known civilizations (as defined in the traditional sense) arose in Mesopotamia around 3500-4000 BCE between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Nile valley of Egypt, the Indus Valley region of modern-day Pakistan and North India, and the parallel development of Chinese civilizations in the Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze River valleys of China, while smaller civilizations arose in Elam in modern-day Iran, and on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, as well as in present-day Mexico. The inhabitants of these areas built cities, created writing systems, learned to make pottery and use metals, domesticated animals, and created complex social structures with class systems
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Wars are needed as a natural part of human evolution. When you look at war from a long-range perspective, it becomes clear that, as destructive as wars are, their very destructiveness has served as the primary force for the evolution of the human race. By mercilessly elimnating those who were unable to survive in the theater of war, wars resulted in a constant upgrading of both the physiological and intellectual acuity of man.\n\nAlthough many bright people perish in wars, the preponderance of the casualties occur among people with the limited intellectual capacity to understand the mechanics of wars and who are thus unable to avoid becoming casualties (this takes into account the cowards who find a way to avoid the war).\n\nWho would seriosly dispute the fact that smart people have higher living standards than intellectually less endowed persons do? War elimnates the intellectually less fit and thus, in the end, raises the average intelligence and the living standards of society as a whole.\n\nThroughout the ages, evolution took advantage of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, war, natural disasters, disease and famine.\n\nIf we succeed in eliminating armies and war, we are also eliminating war in its capacity as a powerful contributor to evolution by keeping the world population in check. We are now at 6 billion humans, scientific projections of growth predict 10 billion within 50 years...mostly in under developed countries. Humanity will reach the limits of available resources at 9-12 billion..this is not sustainable.\n\nWe can only speculate as to which path evolution will take in reducing the world from 10 to 3 billion. A battle for resources will favor those with higher levels of intelligence and rationality. Evolution never receds to irrationality, superstition and stupidity.
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Religion and/or money is the root of every single conflict that you can find in history.  Sad, but true.
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The conflict comes from trying to control what we have no business controlling and cannot even though we try.\nfor we have no control and that is scaary, we cannot control population, religion or an out of control government and uncontrollable spending.
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I don't think I understand your question.  On the surface, of course not.  I suppose it depends on what you mean by "keeping someone from civilization."  Are you talking about kidnapping?  If they then starve to death, well, then yes, of course.  \n\nBut there are tribal societies that don't have much to do with the modern world.  In that case, *bringing* them to "civilization" would be tantamount to murder, as you would be destroying their way of life and quite possibility their mental and spiritual well-being as well.
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The "IN" civilization of its day (about 4000 B.C. it is said)! Great dances, written language, innovative societal structure... a people ahead of their time. Possibly the true founders of 'civilization'. They seem to have arrived on the scene fully developed (economically, politically, intellectually) and certainly established themselves in myth and history as the "Ancient Ones", even to those civilizations we consider ancient. Hmmmmm.... where DID they come from?
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A war is a prolonged engagement between two military powers.  For example, I consider Vietnam a war because the US and the South Vietnamese militaries were fighting the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese militaries.  Same with the current Iraq War, two forces, prolonged engagement.  An example for a conflict is the Somalia incident back in 1991 (remember Blackhawk Down?)  Warlords over threw Somalia's government and the US and allies went in for humanitarian aid.  It was a reletively short engagement, making it a conflict.  Thats how I define wars from conflicts, but I suppose the official way is whether or not Congress declares war. (If they do, its a war.  if not, its a conflict)
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Before 3000 BCE (5,000 years ago) there was no record of wars. At that point in history, the human population reached 100 million, and wars became endemic, after the onset of nations trading with each other (and cheating, or because of piracy/stealing) and we humans have been in the constant state of war ever since...\n\nThere are no reliable records of a civilization indicating the presence of armies in Mesopotamia much earlier than 2500 BCE, not 3500 BCE as previously mentioned...
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Disagreement in the Middle East degenerates into conflict as a result of the fact that society there is like most of that in the rest of the non-European world - that if you want to change something you cause change to happen by physical means. Example: if you do not like your leader, you kill him. If your neighbor steals from you, you cut his hand off at the very least. This is why generally only despots can rule there. The mindset is that a system like ours where you vote people out is not a viable alternative or is a laughable one. This is why US citiznes are held accountable for their governments - passivity is generally not understood in terms of politics. Countries like India, etc., though seem to have a little of both cultural ideals and embody a mix.\nAlso there is such dire poverty in the M.E. that many have nothing to risk or lose when doing things for a cause and so do not hesitate to risk everything.
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Ah did not have **** relayshuns with that wummun, Miss Lewinsky. (sorry :-)\n\nHere's a better one:\n\n"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."\n\nF.D. Roosevelt.
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civilization began when people starts to settle in a permanent place and stop being nomads (the hunter gatherers). being members of a community, citizens help each other when there are natural catastrophes (minor and major), like making a dike in the mesopotamian era to preven flooding. they also help build each others homes or plant crops.
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Some civilizations disappear because of themselves. For example, the Roman empire was just too great. It conquered many of its surrounding countries, bringing in more slaves. That  caused  the people to buy more and more slaves, meaning less and less jobs for their own people. The citizens of Rome starved, while some became more and more idle. When people are idle, they have nothing to do, so their minds turned to violence. Then there were rebellions because the empire could not take proper care of them with so much to do. Because it was now chaotic, the invaders took advantage of this and attacked, resulting in more disorganization. \n   The role that people play in their own destruction is that they do not take proper care of themselves, and sometimes making bad decisions, such as taking drugs. It can ruin their minds. They can make enemies too, so those enemies will try to eliminate them.
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I would have to believe warring is the same in any part of the world. There is the regalia, body and facial paint, war cries and jeering, weapons, body odor, physical movements, ceremonial antics, and familiarity. These people have so much hate for one another and love for their brethren that they know exactly who is who. Some will even sing songs. Songs of war, and songs of power. My tribe have songs of healing and renewal. Maybe the Rwandans do also.
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Isn't all war a control of human population?
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the human rase is much older than that. civilization is 6000 years old
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