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by JumpCrisscross
591 days ago
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> city is not the etymological origin of the world civilisation Civilisations are a subset of societies [1]. Urbanisation is commonly held as a divider between complex societies and full-blown civilisations. > then we just ask the question: what are cities? This is valid. I’d say the defining attribute is economies of scale. Ant colonies and bee hives demonstrate elements of this; the sum is greater than the whole. Whether ants and bees form complex societies is less debatable, unless we reduce the terms to mean intricate where we begin enveloping colonies of trees and every social animal, potentially even just multicellular life, which while poetically pleasing isn’t useful. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization |
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