Ancient Civilizations Quotes

“ultimate sacrifice of human lives—was required to sustain the world.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Cortés and his followers were among the last Europeans to witness a Native American civilization at the height of its powers.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Primary is usually reserved for those civilizations that are thought to have come into being independently.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Rather, they begin to organize themselves differently, to have distinct ideologies and social institutions. It is these innovations that identify them as civilizations.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“They do, however, invite us to address general questions and to consider why human societies in very different contexts in widely separated parts of the world chose to adopt such strikingly similar solutions, a point we return to shortly.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Bruce Trigger, who compared seven early civilizations in such features as population density, technology, religious beliefs and practices, legal systems, and family and community organization.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“An ancient city site will usually be obvious to archaeologists, both from its size and from the scale of its remains.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“urbanization (the presence of cities) and the state (a centralized political unit).”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“civilization as a shorthand for urbanized, state-level societies.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Sir Edward Tylor was one of the fathers of nineteenth-century anthropology and a fervent believer in human progress.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“According to that ultimate arbiter of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, “to civilize” is “to bring out of a state of barbarism, to instruct in the arts of life; to enlighten and refine.”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations

“Ancient Civilizations describes these extraordinary early societies, using archaeological evidence and historical records, oral traditions, and scientific evidence from many academic disciplines”
― Chris Scarre, Ancient Civilizations