Civilization
Strategy game franchise
Civilization refers to human society at an advanced stage of development, marked by cities, government, writing, and complex social organization.
The word often implies cultural refinement and progress: Western civilization, the rise and fall of civilizations.
It can contrast with savagery or barbarism, sometimes carrying assumptions about which societies qualify.
In casual use, civilization means the comforts of developed society: After a week in the wilderness, we were glad to return to civilization.
Movement toward improvement
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- technologyApplied scientific methods
- innovationCreating something original
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
writing · invention · industry · science · enlightenment · modernity · achievement · milestone
Organized communal human existence
- cultureCollective social practices
- communityCollective of connected people
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- lawBinding principle or regulation
institution · citizen · democracy · hierarchy · order · custom · tradition · norm
Domain under unified control
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- ancientVery old indeed
- RomeItaly's capital city
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
Mesopotamia · Greece · Maya · Indus · China · Persia · Aztec · Sumerian
Planned approach to goals
- turn-basedPlayers alternate actions
- expansionIncrease in scope
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- tech treeUnlockable advancement hierarchy
barbarian · settler · city-state · diplomacy · victory · Gandhi · nuclear · hexagon
Educated in arts, manners
- sophisticationCultured elegance and complexity
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
politeness · refinement · cultivated · gentility · courteous · decorum · grace · taste
progress
Movement toward improvement
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- technologyApplied scientific methods
- innovationCreating something original
agriculture · writing · invention · industry · science · enlightenment · modernity · achievement · milestone · evolution
society
Organized communal human existence
- cultureCollective social practices
- communityCollective of connected people
- governanceHow authority is exercised
law · institution · citizen · democracy · hierarchy · order · custom · tradition · norm · ethics
empire
Domain under unified control
Egypt · Mesopotamia · Greece · Maya · Indus · China · Persia · Aztec · Sumerian · Babylonian
strategy
Planned approach to goals
- turn-basedPlayers alternate actions
- expansionIncrease in scope
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
tech tree · barbarian · settler · city-state · diplomacy · victory · Gandhi · nuclear · hexagon · resource
cultured
Educated in arts, manners
- sophisticationCultured elegance and complexity
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
elegance · politeness · refinement · cultivated · gentility · courteous · decorum · grace · taste · breeding
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- video gamesvideo games, gameplay, Fortnite, mobile game, arcade
- long gamesMonopoly, Test cricket, grand strategy, MMORPGs, World of Warcraft
- Historical GamesAge of Empires, Caesar, Pharaoh, Oregon Trail, Shogun
- Simulationscomputer simulation, virtual reality, flight simulator, VR, fluid dynamics
- Ancient MythsGreek mythology, Greek myths, Ariadne, Greek gods, labyrinth
Civilizationbarbarism
Savage, uncivilized behavior
savagery · primitiveness · the wild · prehistory · nomadism
Civilizationbarbarism
Savage, uncivilized behavior
savagery · brutality · inhumanity · barbarity · cruelty
Civilizationanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
chaos · lawlessness · collapse · apocalypse · dystopia
- ancient civilizationsSocieties of the distant past
- lost civilizationsDefunct ancient cultures
- Western civilizationEuro-American cultural tradition
- early civilizationEarliest complex human societies
- alien civilizationsNon-Earth intelligent societies
- dawn of civilization