civilization

organized cultural society that encounters many communities, on a scale of a nation or human, as well as a system of development
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civilization

Summary

civilization ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,487 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • civilization's image is recorded as Egypt.Giza.Sphinx.02.jpg[2].
  • civilization's GND ID is recorded as 4067906-8[3].
  • civilization's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85026423[4].
  • civilization's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13319049t[5].
  • civilization's subclass of is recorded as society[6].
  • civilization's Commons category is recorded as Civilizations[7].
  • civilization's said to be the same as is recorded as world community[8].
  • civilization's opposite of is recorded as primitive culture[9].
  • civilization's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D002962[10].
  • civilization's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1768[11].
  • civilization's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vty[12].
  • civilization's MeSH tree code is recorded as I01.076.201.450.226[13].
  • civilization's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph119248[14].
  • civilization's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Civilizations[15].
  • civilization's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 909[16].
  • civilization's PSH ID is recorded as 9736[17].
  • civilization's facet of is recorded as humanity[18].
  • civilization's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • civilization's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[20].
  • civilization's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000050510[21].
  • civilization's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/civilization[22].
  • civilization's has characteristic is recorded as technological state of a civilization[23].
  • civilization's BBC Things ID is recorded as ff94654b-6713-43b5-b473-d829301f2577[24].
  • civilization's different from is recorded as Civilization[25].
  • civilization's YSO ID is recorded as 14980[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for civilization include Civilization[27], a video game series[28] and Civilization VI[29], a video game[30], directed by Sid Meier[31].

Why It Matters

civilization ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,487 views/month).[1] civilization has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] civilization is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for civilization include Civilization[27], a video game series[28] and Civilization VI[29], a video game[30], directed by Sid Meier[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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