Perhaps it is time to combine early and
contemporary definitions of civilizations
(Targowski, 2009b) by emphasizing these following
important attributes:
1) Large society
a. Specializing in labor
b. Self-differentiating
c. Sharing the same knowledge system
2) Space and Time
a. Autonomous fuzzy reification
b. Distinguished and extended area or
period
c. Reification not a part of a larger entity
3) Cultural system, values and symbol driven
a. Communication driven (e.g.: literate
and electronic media)
b. Religion, wealth, and power driven
4) Infrastructural system, technology-driven
by, first, at least one of the following:
a. Urban infrastructure
b. Agricultural Infrastructure
c. Other infrastructures (Industrial,
Information and so forth)
5) Cycle-driven
a. Rising, growing, declining, and falling
over time