Log in Tatjana Blumfeld 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Tatjana Blumfeld's post “What is a horticultural s...” What is a horticultural society? • (24 votes) Rosie Friedland 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Rosie Friedland's post “Hi Tatjana! Horticultural...” Hi Tatjana! Horticultural is another way of saying an agricultural society. Horticulture is the practice of tending and cultivating plants. It's being compared along with a pastoral society, which involves herding animals, as more complex forms of social org. than hunger-forager societies. Hope this helps! (45 votes) Srishti Sethi 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Srishti Sethi's post “The formation of politica...” The formation of political structures seems apparent with civilization, but how questioning around human existence may have lead to religious groups? • (15 votes) pianissimo 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to pianissimo's post “Religion is supposed to p...” Religion is supposed to provide an answer to the meaning of life. Why was I born? Where will I go after I die. It may have been used by the "elite" as another person mentioned, but I do not believe that was the main reason that led to religious groups. (12 votes) Martin Lupin 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to Martin Lupin's post “Why the shape of the temp...” Why the shape of the temples of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica was similar to a pyramid? • (12 votes) sowersdo a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to sowersdo's post “I think it is because it ...” I think it is because it lets water drain easily. (5 votes) KAYLIN167 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to KAYLIN167's post “So, how do we determine w...” So, how do we determine what's writing and what isn't? For example, the Quipu in paragraph thirteen in the article. Would that be considered an ancient form of writing, or a way to calculate certain things? How do we know? • (12 votes) Natasha Sanchez 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Natasha Sanchez's post “I think that writing is d...” I think that writing is defined as a way of making words physical. I would count the Quipu as a type of writing. Some people could have a different interpretation but that is my two cents. Great question Kaylin! (7 votes) Dj 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Dj's post “How could a civilization ...” How could a civilization form like this in such a small period of time? • (4 votes) Paul G 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Paul G's post “Agriculture made it possi...” Agriculture made it possible for civilization to grow exponentially. Because food is not a challenge anymore (compared to hunter-gatherer societies), people have free time which could lead to specialization in crafts, the arts, and technology. Technology like irrigation and selective breeding of plants with high calories lead to more food, population boom, and more people to do jobs that the society requires. In short, more people means more brains and hands to do any type of work. (9 votes) Rachel a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to Rachel's post “A complex society becomes...” A complex society becomes a civilization when they begin to establish social organization, religious practices, and begin political groups. • (5 votes) Niuniu 9 months agoPosted 9 months ago. Direct link to Niuniu's post “I think with social hiera...” I think with social hierarchies it's a bit of an oversimplification to chalk everything up to 'life would be boring if we were all the same' or 'people should be paid more for doing tough jobs', hierarchies don't actually exist to benefit those who work harder but only those who are born in positions of power, imo social hierarchies exist to uphold class exploitation (6 votes) Mary Johnson 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Mary Johnson's post “When did "marriage" i.e. ...” When did "marriage" i.e. monogamy come into being? • (6 votes) Hecretary Bird 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Hecretary Bird's post “Some of the earliest inst...” Some of the earliest instances that we know of a man and woman ceremoniously uniting are found in the Mesopotamia area. In the Talmud and the Bible, there are references to marriage, and we get the idea of the man providing from the woman from hebrew tradition and texts. There really isn't a conclusive answer as to exactly how marriage came into being, but it was probably the need for order and higher stability in early families. (4 votes) Botond Bátorfi 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to Botond Bátorfi's post “How did castes emerge? Wa...” How did castes emerge? Was it the possessing the required qualities that enabled people to practice some kind of power over the others, or was it about who can make the others "kneel" for them? • (3 votes) Nicole Ng 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to Nicole Ng's post “Well it depends on what t...” Well it depends on what type of caste you're talking about. Hinduism has a caste system based on its religion, while castes like feudalism are most likely for socioeconomic order and 'balance' in a society. Castes do just that, order, and if you think about it, we informally have them today in our Western societies in the forms of socioeconomic classes. Considering that most social organisms, especially humans, start out as hierarchal social animals naturally, then I theorize that's where the concept of castes formed. (7 votes) heather reser 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to heather reser's post “how effective was their t...” how effective was their trading society? how big did there communities approximately reached/get to be? • (5 votes) mbachuanderson 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to mbachuanderson's post “please I would love to kn...” please I would love to know what factors led to early civilization (1 vote) Bekzod Kimsanboev 5 years agoPosted 5 years ago. Direct link to Bekzod Kimsanboev's post “When people started agric...” When people started agriculture,did people stop travelling because thre was no need to forage anymore? If yes, then how did diffrerent methods of agriculture spread around the world? • (1 vote) baysim 5 years agoPosted 5 years ago. Direct link to baysim's post “Agriculture did not sprea...” Agriculture did not spread. Rather, it emerged in the areas suitable to it. In very fertile regions around the Yellow or Indus rivers, for example, agriculture helped bring about a sedentary lifestyle which led to the need for specialization and later on the need for centralized rule. We see agriculture emerging around the world at similar time periods. However, that is just relative to us - agriculture may have arose in one region a couple thousand years before agriculture emerged in another region halfway across the world. In places not suitable for agriculture, like the Australian outback, the hunter-gatherer tradition was maintained because there was no incentive to become agrarian. The need to forage still remained in places such as these well after the period we refer to as the Agricultural Revolution occurred. (6 votes)Want to join the conversation?
It's mentioned where the spectrum of social organization is described.
Factors that were most important to establishing and maintaining a civilization was the gathering of people to do their different jobs. Establishment of cities and shared views.
I do think that social hierarchies are necessary for civilizations because life would be boring if we were all the same. Also, when people do tough jobs, they should be paid for them.
I do not think that all state-level political structures are necessary for civilization, I think independent cities with a shared culture can be a civilization.
