Driving Forces of Civilizations.

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Religious core

There is no documented culture that did not engage in religious activity. There were monotheistic and polytheistic civilizations. The former category includes civilizations like Islamic culture that held to the doctrine of a single God.

These latter cultures practised ancestral worship and held multiple gods in high regard. They also held superstitious beliefs. The majority of cultures were polytheistic. For instance, they thought that unstoppable forces were responsible for causing natural calamities like floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. Religion has always been important in people’s lives because it offers explanations for the biggest questions about life, the cosmos, and everything, despite the disparities between civilizations in terms of beliefs and practices.

World-wide Holistic View

One of the characteristics that set one culture of a civilisation apart from others is its worldview. A civilization’s worldview is the collection of ideas that underlie and shape all of a particular nation’s or community’s perception, thought, knowledge, and action. It is the overarching lens through which a nation’s or community’s citizens view and understand the world. The term “world” here refers to all that surrounds a person, including the invisible. Another aspect of a worldview is man.

and God, the individual and society, the rights and obligations of parents and children, husband and wife, the individual and society, and nature and God, is one of a civilization’s worldview’s functions. A civilization’s worldview can be influenced by a variety of elements, including religion and culture. Accordingly, one may characterise a civilization’s worldview as the cultural-religious ideas that a people or community holds to explain the enigmas of the world. The worldview of a civilization evolved alongside that culture.

Explaining the mysteries of the world, such as birth, illness, and death, as well as the relationship between God and man, man

Many ancient worldviews have changed as a result of science and technology, which are the cornerstones of contemporary civilization.

Dynamic Nature

Dynamism in this context refers to “evolution and progress.” Civilizations change over time. They are dynamic, which means they are constantly evolving, taking on new elements like culture and religion, and moving forward in time. This is the same as claiming that man and civilization are analogous. He experiences childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Another aspect that makes civilisation hard to characterise is its volatility. It also puts the preservation of a civilization’s identity in jeopardy.

It is amazing how some civilizations merge with other big civilizations and lose their individuality. It is also remarkable that a civilization that loses its uniqueness may either become indistinct or the progeny of another civilization, or it may simply perish after having passed the initial stage of birth. Loss of fundamental cultural characteristics is simply loss of identity.

Due to cultural globalisation, we are currently seeing a trend where numerous civilizations are descended from Western civilisation. The Latin term globus, which means “ball,” is where the word “globalisation” originates. It means something that is relevant to the entire planet or Earth. Globalisation of culture results in the domination of Western culture. As a result, it can be considered a modern type of colonialism.

Heterogeneous Character

The term “civilizations” refers to urban societies with various, diversified macrocultures that are closely held together by networks of intensive, habitual interactions, especially political, military, and economic. They are also multicultural, multireligious, and multiethnic.

The advantages of civilisation “cannot be restricted to few persons or be limited to particular groups,” according to this statement. They represent “the entire society working together.”

Humans vary from other species in that they interact with individuals of different races, cultures, and nations: “A civilisation is the highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identification.”

As a result, one aspect of civilization is the sharing of cultural and economic ideas. Every culture owes thanks to other civilizations because none of them can survive without them.

Significance of Civilizations.

The two components of every civilisation are the material and the spiritual, regardless of the religion used to describe it: “civilization denotes both material and moral ideals” or “infrastructure (material) and superstructure (spiritual)”: A civilised society is a stage of societal development where the people’s education, spirituality, and physical growth are completely supported, with technical breakthroughs that are in line with people’s needs and that improve society. The connection

The relationship between civilization’s material and spiritual dimensions is like the two sides of a coin; one cannot exist without the other.

There has never been a great civilization without a spiritual component.

The physical side of civilization includes a vast range of objects and living things, including buildings, cities, parks, works of art, tools, and machines. It includes everything that has a shape or physical form. They show the growth and advancement of humanity. In a nutshell, they represent the expansion of knowledge and are the results of either human creativity or knowledge.

The purpose of civilization is to meet human wants. It is important to remember that all races, ethnicities, cultures, and religions can benefit from civilization. They benefit all people.

Inference:

The study proves that the birth of human civilizations began with a need to survive together for a longer living span.

Architecture evolved as an effective tool for them to survive against the nature that blankets them.

Organically, the ways and means adopted by human beings were sensitive towards the nature they were guarded by. Its coliving with the space it occupies evoked a feeling of association between the two. This makes the man think before altering or changing the space around.

This sense of association, consciousness and authentic choices towards a space I believe develops an empathetic lens.