And so it's the turn of civilised cultures to come under the spotlight.
The words "civic," "civil," "civilian," "civility," and "civilisation" come from a Latin root, "civitas," city. It can be argued that a civilised nation is one which has reached a sufficient level of sophistication as to require urban developments - the formation of communities into cities, plural.
Throughout history, there have been a good many examples of civilised societies, each of which thought itself the pinn