Why is there a debate about the application of the term "civilization" to developing settlements?
What will be an ideal response?
A. The term "civilization" has been discredited
1. people have abused it as a name for societies they approve of and that resemble their own
2. denied the term to cultures they deem alien or lacking in material culture or institutions similar to their own
3. misapplied it as the name of a supposedly universal stage of social development when there is no evidence to support the claim
B. New understanding of what civilization means
1. a society that, for good or ill, engages ambitiously with its environment, seeking to remodel the rest of nature to suit human purposes
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