Type II self-aware life: Masters of a region
 
  Type II Civilizations are those species that have sufficiently mastered matter, ergon fields and the processes of fusion and fission to develop transport vehicles and machines. A region is defined as large land mass, or series of land masses ( such as an Island Group) that are considered autonomous and controlled by some form of organized leadership.  
  Significantly, Type II Civilizations have codified teaching methods to the point of developing basic education systems and the formal classification of knowledge.  
15.14.1 The classification of Type II- Masters of a region  
  To ensure the standardization of language associated with Type II Civilizations, the following classification of sub components is used:  
 
Sub Classification Component
State universal personification deity
Tribe Inter-stellar, Earthy deity- nature
 
  The classification of Type II Civilizations identifies two distinct models- one that recognizes ultimate power to some higher environmental power, and a model that respects the personification of a deity.  
  City States  
  The city state is where we see the emergence of what is more commonly classed as Civilization. The structure of this Type II model is:  
 
Sub Classification Component
Highest Class universal personification deity
City State 1 city/state, walled, settlement
State Religious/Warrior Leaders 12 to 40 religious/warrior leaders
Scribes/Assistants 50 to 100 supporters
Worker Families Thousands of workers
Slave Families Thousands of slaves
 
  Tribes  
  The tribe is where we see the emergence of a spirit of localized cooperation and harmony within a certain environment. We also on some occasions include this structure within our scope of the definition of Civilization. However, this model is usually seen as having preceded the model of the city state. Instead, we consider it concurrent.  
 
Sub Classification Component
Highest Class Inter-stellar, Earthy deity- nature
Tribes 40 to 100 families
Lead family and elders 10 to 50 elders
 
15.13.2 Emergence of Type II Civilization on planet Earth  
  If fierce controversy exists over the dates of origin of the species, then the origins for dating what we would commonly call 'the first civilizations' is even hotter in controversy.  
  For years, the commonly accepted date for the first 'civilizations' of modern human were thought to be no older than a few thousand years. Then in the late 19th century and early 20th Century, a series of startling finds and analysis re-dated archeological sites such as Jericho, Jerusalem, Stone Henge and settlements of Egypt and South America as old as 12,000 years.  
  The now more accepted date by widely read and knowledgeable academics is around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.  
  Thanks to the archeological work done in Iraq and Iran we now know that the more advanced city/states had structures very similar to our own current day city states.  
These early settlements were built around central religious monuments- such as ziggurats, or temples of some kind. To this day, many cities remain constructed centrally around a religious structure such as a cathedral, temple or former religious site of significance.  
  These settlements had structures for military nearby, for government officials, the storage of wealth and documents. All of these basic structures which we find in place in modern cities is identical at the highest level to the first models of Type II Civilizations ten to twelve thousand years ago.  
  On the other hand, the emergence of the extended tribe is considered to have preceded the emergence of the city state. However, to this day, there remains no evidence to suggest the existence of advanced tribal cultures resulted in the creation of city states. Advanced tribal cultures precede city states by tens of thousands of years from research in Africa, France and Australia.  
  However, evidence as to the continuation of these cultures separately to city state cultures indicates that it does not follow city states emerged from tribal cultures directly.  
     
 
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