Civilization
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People with common language, customs, government, and economy, earliest in Mesopotamia 3000 BC.
A civilization needs a form of government (a set of laws), a form of education, skilled workers, an agricultural surplus to feed the skilled workers, law enforcement, economy, and a currency or trading system.
Civilization has also been defined by Clyde Kluckhohn as having "three essential criteria for civilization: towns containing more than 5000 people, writing, and monumental ceremonial centers".[1]
In order to attain these prerequistes a group of humans must have climbed up the ladder of Technological Development necessary to attain these criteria.
