They are a feature of civilization, not culture, and imply the existence of literacy, a legal system, and formal codes of conduct.
Frederick's strategy underscores the importance of those features that define the greatness of a civilization: knowledge, wisdom, respect and compassion for other human beings.
One is bound to notice, however, that archaeological finds tend to call into question the whole concept of a Dark Age by showing that certain features of Greek civilization once thought not to antedate about 800 bce can actually be pushed back by as much as two centuries.
Both are among the most characteristic features of Egyptian civilization.
Magical thinking structures the processes of imagination, and imagining something can and sometimes must precede the fact or the act; it has shaped many features of Western civilization.
The festivals included not only drinking wine and engaging in sexual activity but also participating in such significant features of Greek civilization as choral singing and mimes.
The Roman Empire, the ancestor of the Byzantine, remarkably blended unity and diversity, the former being by far the better known, since its constituents were the predominant features of Roman civilization.
Most historians agree that the defining features of their civilization were: 1) Greek language, culture, literature, and science, 2) Roman law and tradition, 3) Christian faith.
The BJP grew out of the Hindutva ideology that emerged in the early 20th century and stresses above all the need to emphasize the Hindu faith, history, and culture as the defining features of Indian civilization and identity.
He cannot resist a piquant aside that "vodka is an unorthodox but immeasurably improving addition" in discussing the raw nature of steak tartare, or that "I find the very idea of drinking unmodified milk disgusting; and the way butter is prized for frying is one of the features of North European civilization to which a lifetime's effort has failed to reconcile me".
