factors of a successful civilization?
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The factors of a successful civilation are determined by four things: North or South region, Eastern or Western, a Developed country, or a core country. North or South like North America versus South America or Europe versus Africa, which one is more civilized? Eastern or Western, meaning Eastern practices (ex. Afganhistan) or Western (Europe). A developed country has previously gone through a great demographic transistion phase: pre-industrial with birth and death rates decreasing steadily (as death rates decline rapidly birth rates follow). Two transistion phases follow the pre-industrial era, but are then accompanied by the final product: an industrial era, which exhibits low birth and death rates.  A successful civilation is at the highest degree of the food chain, so to speak. It operates mostly at a quaternary level (computer management, business, communication employement), it has lucrative trading with peripheral and semi-peripheral countries (i.e. countries with no or little industry and technology). In fact, it practically lives off the periphery- U.S. (core country) lives off of many products made in China (semi-periphery). Today, the most obvious "factor" defining successful civilations are innovators and mass usage of technology and communications. Another factor is that it has usually less than 10% agriculture; and, like the U.S. for example, uses a great percentage of the worlds' resources (U.S. uses one fourth or 25% of the world's total natural and non-renewable resources).
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Savings actually form the foundation of civilization. For a great primer on the importance of savings, check out the following article:\n\nhttp://www.mises.org/story/1596\n\nScroll down to the section called "The basics of the pool of funding concept"
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Yes, any theocracy can be successful. BUT ...\nThis does not imply that such a theocracy might evolve in the next 10 years.
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Depends on--\nwhich religion, &\nsinging skill.
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You should ask this question to Nobel Prize Committee which awards the Nobel Prize.\nOriginal and significant contribution in that field plus luck, will be the key to the success, if we measure the success this way.\nWe know Stephen Hawking through reading his books. His research papers were not as popular as his books. Comparison could be made and someone else might be much more lucky.\nIt is all politic.
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Honesty\n\nGood Manners\n\nquality\n\nValue for money\n\nElegance
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1. uniquely impressive life expectancy gains (40 to 65) via widespread equitable social welfare policies   2. institutions necessary for a green revolution in agriculture that spread throughout China from 1965-1983  3. a basic industrialization foundation (albeit grossly imbalanced towards heavy industry and military) for reformers to build on  4. unintentionally stimulating later democracy debates and movements by invoking the Paris Commune ideals in the early Cultural Revolution (ideals he soon betrayed).  \n\nThese achivements have to be balanced against the 1959-61 famine, imprisonment of real and supposed dissenters, two major episodes of state violence, and the elimination of most non-propagandistic art, literature, film, etc.
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Defense, being a superpower has the major economical factors of meaning large army.\n\nNow for this, other thigns suffer, such as Health and Education, meaning that as a whole the society will stagnate as new ideas can't spread through education and Health is the way you keep people around to remember the old.
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World Peace\nEradication of poverty\nLiteracy for all people
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Respect, intelligence, money, prowess, power, lives, creativity, awareness, focus, honor and reason. How's that?
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HARDWORK\n\nThats it....\n\nNothing Other than this can bring us SUCCESS sooner or later
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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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question is too general. Anyway, maybe professionalism, leadership, good time & resource management, hard working.
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There are hundreds of articles at http://success.hammocksurvivalguide.com/ that might help explain that.
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Factors that are detrimental to a nation's growth vary from one nation to another. However the prominent factors are- a high population growth rate, high rate of unemployment and social and income inequalities. These along with secondary factors like inflation, corruption etc. retard the growth of developing nations.
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successfully ? who knows
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Any of the below cover it, as do all other answers.\nmost favorable\nbest possible\nmost advantageous\nfinest