1. The culture of a particular country. 2. Culture generally, which distinguishes humankind from the animal...

People began farming at different times in different parts of the world. Around 8500 B.C. hunter-gatherers in the area of southwest Asia known as the Fertile Crescent began to cultivate wild grains and domesticate animals. One thousand years later,...

Civilization (Standard American) (Standard British, civilisation) is a kind of human society or culture; specifically, a civilization is usually understood to be a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in cities....

Justice Stephen Breyer on Saturday stressed the role of the Supreme Court in protecting civil liberties in an age of terrorism.At a public appearance in Brussels, Belgium, the justice said the high court made a mistake in World War II when it said the relocation...

What is most frustrating about Civil Brand is that it fails to live up to it's potential. Who better to tell this tale of black women lost in a system more concerned with profit and oppression than penance and rehabilitation than women and men at...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton pledges to expand federal hate crime laws and use an independent board to review Justice Department attorney hiring.That's according to a slate of proposals she was expected to talk about during a speech to the NAACP on Saturday night.The...

The bullet-scarred bus sat rusting in the spring rain, on display for all to see what triggered Lebanon's 15-year civil war.Christian gunmen ambushed the bus as it carried Palestinians on April 13, 1975, sparking reprisals that spiraled into warfare between Lebanon's Christians and Muslims, killing...

Tries to answer the philosophical question: Are we civilized?

The Decline of Ancient Mediterrean, Chinese, and Indian civilizations.