Civilization, precipitated by history, is conducive to enhancing human adaptation and cognition to the objective world, and conforms to the sum of humanistic spirit, inventions, public order and good customs that are pursued by human spirit and can be recognized and accepted by most people.

Civilization is a collection of all social and natural behaviors that make human beings free from barbarism. These collections at least include the following elements: family concept, tools, language, writing, faith, religious concept, law, city-state and country.

Due to the uneven distribution of various elements of civilization in time and region, various civilizations with obvious differences have emerged.

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Civilization is a new stage of human culture and social development. This stage is characterized by the continuous development of material production, the continuous enrichment of spiritual life, the intensification of social division of labor and differentiation, the development of different classes from social division of labor and class differentiation, and the emergence of mandatory public power-the state.

The sum of wealth created by human beings is also a kind of civilization, especially spiritual wealth, such as literature, art, education and science. Civilization covers the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature.

Its main functions are: first, to pursue the perfection of personal morality; The second is to safeguard public interests and public order.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Civilization (Chinese Vocabulary)