Probably the commonest and most simple definition of civilization is that it applies to any culture that builds cities. The Sumerians definitely built cities.
Aside from that, they had a high culture. They developed irrigation, organized agriculture, writing, household furniture, Musical Instruments, and political systems.
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According to Samual Noah Kramer the great majority of Sumerians as "farmers and cattle breeders, boatmen and fishermen, merchants and scribes, doctors and architects, masons and carpenters, smiths, jewlers, and potters." And he writes, "In early days political power lay in the hands of these free citizens and a city governor ... who was no more than a peer among peers."
That sounds civilized.
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Mesopotamia was civilized by the sumerians, which had a religious belief of many gods. They had an important preist who was there ruler and had temples to worship there gods called ziggurates. There was no set religion when mesopotamia was found until the Jewish people founded judism with there belief in one god. The religion of the people in mesopotamia is polytheism.
The sumerians believed that the gods ruled the cities
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Sumer is the first civilization. The Sumerians were the first civilized people.
Both had all the elements that make a society. They had government, art, religious practices, a military, huge cities, trading with others, surplus of foods, music, and created massive building projects.
During the period of the Roman Empire, Rome was considered the most civilized city in the world and Roman citizens the most civilized people in the world, regardless of whether they were rich or poor.
The Americans are a civilized people.
In some places they do. But in more civilized regions it is considered immoral and is frowned upon in most societies.
The Romans wanted to be civilized because they wanted to be the best, and to do that they needed to be civilized people.
Considered by whom? What do you mean by the terms "primitive" and "civilized"? The word "primitive" may have a meaning if you put it in a specific context; "civilized" is such an emotionally loaded term that you're better off not using it. A community can be technologically "primitive" while adhering to a highly "civilized" mode of conduct.
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No, the cyclops in the Odyssey are depicted as savage and uncivilized beings. They are portrayed as brutish creatures that lack hospitality and live in isolation, showing no regard for the social norms or customs of ancient Greek society.
Act more like civilized people and less like animals.
Mesopotamia was civilized by the sumerians, which had a religious belief of many gods. They had an important preist who was there ruler and had temples to worship there gods called ziggurates. There was no set religion when mesopotamia was found until the Jewish people founded judism with there belief in one god. The religion of the people in mesopotamia is polytheism.