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Type II Civilization and human community life |
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When we consider human community life and
the first models of human community life, we naturally think of those of the
oldest civilizations on record- the Sumerians, the Egyptians and Sth American
Cultures. |
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In Chapter 15, we defined all self aware
life by categories called Civilizations. When we consider human community life
we need to consider our understandings within the framework of a wider scope
being self-aware life. |
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The classification of Type II- Masters of
a region |
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To ensure the standardization of language
associated with Type II Civilizations, the following classification of sub
components is used: |
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| Sub Classification |
Component |
| State |
universal personification deity |
| Tribe |
Inter-stellar, Earthy deity- nature |
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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. |
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City States |
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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: |
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| 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 |
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Tribes |
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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. |
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| Sub Classification |
Component |
| Highest Class |
Inter-stellar, Earthy deity- nature |
| Tribes |
40 to 100 families |
| Lead family and elders |
10 to 50 elders |
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Emergence of Type II Civilization on planet Earth |
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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. |
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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. |
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The now more accepted date by widely read and
knowledgeable academics is around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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