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civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil

The word Civil is derived from the Latin word civilis, from civis ("citizen"). Used as an adjective, it may describe several fields, concepts, and people: Civil aviation Civil death Civil defense Civil disobedience Civil engineering Civil law Civil liberties Civil libertarianism Civil marriage Civil procedure Civil rights Civil service/Civil servant Civil war

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civilization: Encyclopedia - Civilization The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. The term comes from the Latin civis, meaning "citizen" or "townsman". Civilization - Senses of the word. Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions. 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, ...

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Civilization - Senses of the word

civilization: Encyclopedia II - Civilization - The future of civilizations

Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington has argued that the defining characteristic of the 21st century will be a clash of civilizations. According to Huntington, conflicts between civilizations will supplant the conflicts between nation-states and ideologies that characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently, world civilization is in a stage that has created what may be characterized as an industrial society, superseding the agrarian society that preceded it. Some futurists believe that civilization is undergoing another transformation, ...

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Civil engineering - Sub-disciplines of civil engineering

civilization: Encyclopedia - Aegean civilization

Aegean civilization is the general term for the prehistoric civilizations in Greece and the Aegean. It was formerly called "Mycenaean" because its existence was first brought to popular notice by Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Mycenae starting in 1876. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not the chief center of Aegean civilization in its earlier stages (or perhaps at any period), and accordingly it is more usual now to use the more general geographical title. Aegean civilization - Di ...

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Aegean civilization - Distinctive features

Aegean civilization - History of Aegean Civilization

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil procedure

Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the process that courts will follow when hearing cases of a civil nature (a "civil action"). These rules govern how a lawsuit or case may be commenced, what kind of service of process is required, the types of pleadings or statements of case, motions or applications, and orders allowed in civil cases, the timing and manner of depositions and discovery or disclosure, the conduct of trials, the process for judgment, various available remedies, and how the courts and clerks must function.< ...

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. Civil disobedience has been used in nonviolent resistance movements in India in the fight against British colonialism, South Africa in the fight against apartheid and in the civil rights movement of the USA and Europe as well as in the Scandinavian resistance against Nazi occupation. The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this p ...

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil trial

A civil trial is a trial between private parties carried out to resolve a dispute between the parties. The term is distinguished from criminal trials, in which the government is seeking to punish an accused person for a violation of the law. A government entity can sue or be sued as a party in a civil trial, but has no greater rights than any other private party. Most frequently, civil trials are brought to resolve questions arising under the law of contract, tort, and property. Each party will present evidence in support of th

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil war

A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. Civil war is usually a high intensity stage in an unresolved political struggle for national control of state power. As in any war, the conflict may be over other matters such as religion, ethnicity, or distribution of wealth. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict. An insurgency, whether successful or not, is likely to be classified as a civil war by some ...

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civilization: Encyclopedia - Civilization III

Sid Meier's Civilization III is a turn-based strategy computer game by Firaxis Games, the sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization II. Also called "Civ 3" for short, the game is the third generation of the original Civilization. The game offers highly evolved gameplay in terms of both mechanics and strategy. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Civ III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, ...

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Civilization III - Gameplay

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil code

A civil code is a systematic compilation of laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law. Civil code - History. Civil code - European codes and influences on other continents. The idea of codification emerged during the age of enlightenment, when it was believed that all spheres of life could be dealt with in a conclusive system based on human rationality. The first attempts at codification were made in the second half of the 18th century, when the Ge ...

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Civil code - History

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civilization IV

Europe: November 4, 2005 Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy computer game. It is the latest installment of the acclaimed Civilization series started by Sid Meier. It was developed by lead designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Meier and his studio Firaxis Games. Civilization 4 was released between October 25 and November 4, 2005 in North America, Europe, and Australia. A Macintosh version is expected in early 2006. Civilization IV - New features. There are many ...

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Civilization IV - New features

Civilization IV - Customization

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil engineer

The term civil engineer refers to an individual who practices civil engineering. Originally the term "civil" engineer worked on public works projects and was contrasted with the military engineer, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, civil engineering has spun off a variety of fields e.g. architectural engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and what is still called civil engineering. An interesting definition could be, "The profession of Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of the power ...

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Civil engineer - Scandinavian civil engineers

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil parish

In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. Civil parishes in the modern sense were established in 1894, and although their origins are in the system of ecclesiastical parishes, they no longer have anything to do with the Church of England. Parishes previously also existed in Scotland and Wales. They still formally exist in Ireland, but are now largely obselete. Civil parish - Geography. Parishes do not ...

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civilization: Encyclopedia - Vedic civilization

The Vedic civilization is the Indo-Aryan culture associated with the Vedas, the earliest known records of Indian history. Mainstream scholarship places the Vedic civilization into the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, many Hindu scholars date its beginnings as early as the 7th millennium BC based on astronomical information in the Vedas, genetics, horse bones findings in Harappan places that suggest a Vedic way of living before 2000 BC,and the reference to a big Saraswati river in Rig Veda which proves Vedic people were there before it decrea ...

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civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil service

A civil servant or public servant is a civilian career public sector employee working for a government department or agency. Further workers in non-departmental public bodies may also be classed as civil servants for the purpose of producing statistics. Examples in this category include some employees of so-called QUANGOs. Collectively they form a nation's Civil Service or Public Service. In the British system of Civil Service, civil servants are career employees recruited and promoted on the basis of their ...

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Civil service - History

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil registry

In most countries, births, deaths, and marriages are recorded at a government controlled births, deaths and marriages registry office (eg. the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages in many Commonwealth countries). Civil registry - United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, legislation making civil registration of births, marriages and deaths mandatory was introduced in 1837. The General Register Office are the national supervising body in England and Wales, and there is also a General Regis ...

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Civil registry - United Kingdom

civilization: Encyclopedia - Maya civilization

Archaeological evidence shows the Maya had started to build ceremonial architecture by approximately 1000 BCE. There is some disagreement about the boundaries which differentiate the physical and cultural extent of the early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Olmec culture of the Tabasco lowlands and the Mixe-Zoque– and Zapotec–speaking peoples of Chiapas and southern Oaxaca. Many of the earliest significant inscriptions and buildings appeared in thi ...

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Maya civilization - Writing and literacy

Maya civilization - Reference

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil defense

Civil defense is an effort to prepare civilians for military attack. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response (evacuation), and recovery. Programs of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s but it was only after the threat of nuclear weapons became realized that they became widespread. As the intensity of the Cold War waned emphasis shifted from military attack to emergencies and disasters in general. In the United States this eventually led to the replacem ...

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Civil defense - Stages

civilization: Encyclopedia - Civil police

A civil police force is a police force comprised of civilians and not military personnel. In the hierarchy of a government, such a force would typically come under the purview of an umbrella organization such as a Home Office, a Department of Public Safety, or an Interior Ministry as opposed to being found amongst the departments of an army or other armed forces. Civil police agencies may be organized and trained on military lines (often called a constabulary, although that term may also be used for non-paramilitary forces), or they may be strictly non-military type organizations ...

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