English > civilization: 4 senses > noun 3, group| Meaning | A particular society at a particular time and place. |
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| Example | "early Mayan civilization" |
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| Synonyms | culture, civilisation |
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| Category | archeology, archaeology | The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures |
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| Parts | subculture | A social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs |
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| Narrower | Aegean civilization, Aegean civilisation, Aegean culture | The prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries |
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| Helladic civilization, Helladic civilisation, Helladic culture | The bronze-age culture of mainland Greece that flourished 2500-1100 BC |
| Indus civilization | The bronze-age culture of the Indus valley that flourished from about 2600-1750 BC |
| Minoan civilization, Minoan civilisation, Minoan culture | The bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC |
| Mycenaean civilization, Mycenaean civilisation, Mycenaean culture | The late bronze-age culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC |
| Paleo-American culture, Paleo-Amerind culture, Paleo-Indian culture | The prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America |
| Western culture, Western civilization | The modern culture / culture of western Europe and North America |
| Broader | society | An extended social group having a distinctive cultural / cultural and economic organization |
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| Spanish | civilización, cultura |
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| Catalan | civilització, cultura |
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