{"id":436700,"date":"2018-06-30T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/?p=30731"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:03:16","slug":"history-response-paper-are-we-civilized-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/history-response-paper-are-we-civilized-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"History Response Paper-Are we Civilized yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2.\u00a0<strong>Are we Civilized yet?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Instead of using the term \u201ccivilization\u201d the textbook uses the word or term \u201csociety.\u201d Specifically, the text uses the term \u201ccomplex society\u201d to refer to \u201ca form of large-scale social organization that emerged in several parts of the ancient world.&#8221; According to the authors, complex societies depended on robust agricultural economies. In these economies more food was produced than was needed for subsistence. Because of the excess food, people were able to specialize on other tasks and people became political authorities, government official, military experts, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the term \u201ccomplex society\u201d has a different connotation or meaning than the term \u201ccivilization.\u201d Historians today might be reluctant to use the term \u201ccivilization\u201d or \u201ccivilized\u201d because according to the Dictoniary.com, the term originated in the mid-18thcentury with one meaning being \u201cthe act or process of bringing out of a savage or uneducated state.\u201d The term, therefore, implies that a group of people have reached or developed to a particular stage, while others need to reach a certain stage to be considered \u201ccivilized.\u201d The term establishes a hierarchy for looking at different cultures or settlements. This hierarchal frame is unhelpful for the study of history because it may lead the student to dismiss or undervalue different social structures or cultures that don\u2019t necessarily fit within our current understanding of the word \u201ccivilized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A course with a title like \u201cWorld Civilizations\u201d may imply that only particular groups of people or particular cultures will be studied. Societies that may not be considered complex in our text or \u201ccivilized\u201d, such as early hunters and gathers, were societies with complex social structures and settlements that had important implications for world history.<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/civilization?s=t)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.\u00a0Are we Civilized yet? Instead of using the term \u201ccivilization\u201d the textbook uses the word or term \u201csociety.\u201d Specifically, the text uses the term \u201ccomplex society\u201d to refer to \u201ca form of large-scale social organization that emerged in several parts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/history-response-paper-are-we-civilized-yet\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}