A Short History of Civilization (472 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle)

National Geographic characterizes civilization as a complex human society, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development. In many parts of the world, early civilizations formed when people began coming together in urban settlements like the Aztecs and the Inca. However, defining what makes a civilization is still an ongoing topic of conversation among today's academics. “Civilization” comes from the Latin word “civitas” or “city” and the most basic understanding is “a society made up of cities.” But early in our development anthropologists and scholars started to use the term "civilization" to describe societies they found culturally superior (which they were often a part of), and those they found culturally inferior as “barbaric.” Nowadays our thinking is more inclusive and we recognize civilization is a way that humans can come together and form a society based on a highly developed framework  Most anthropologists now agree on these criteria to define a soci