Questions tagged [civilization]
For questions about groups of societies and their defining characteristics and achievements.
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Civilization that has existed forever [closed]
Imagine a civilization that has no beginning. What interesting characteristics would it have? For clarity:
This implies that the universe that contains it has also existed forever.
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Could Fascist ideals survive in a Democratic Society?
I am making a dystopian society, where the government is elected democratically, more specifically using the Westminster system. However, the society was previously a fascist regime for the period of ...
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How to convincingly erase a population's memory?
I am a big fan of the "forgotten precursor civilization" trope, and the lesser-used trope of gods or major religious figures worshiped in the present turning out to be forgotten and ...
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Could man have developed flight without the existence of flying creatures? [closed]
So much of man's inventions are based on nature, it causes me to wonder what would happen if we were missing the vital discoveries that make up modern technology. In a short story I'm writing, there ...
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How could a group of Semi-Nomadic subsistence farmers construct a large city?
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The group lives in an area of ~1.35Million km2
Individual city population around 40,000 to 100,000 people. Multiple of these cities within the larger territory
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Do tribes dissolve when united into one nation?
In my world there is a mostly agricultural kingdom with roughly medieval technology in a temperate, heavily forested land with very harsh terrain and climate comparable to New Zealand. In its place ...
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Successfully maintaining austerity economic policies for hundreds of years
Basic Introduction (story background for anyone interested)
I have a city-state, which was once part of a formerly large Empire. This Empire catastrophically imploded a 'long time ago', but this city-...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
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A group of let's say, 2500 people wake up from suspended animation on a world terraformed beforehand to be very similar to Earth. These people, ...
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If Venus had a sapient civilisation similar to our own prior to global resurfacing, would we know it?
Let’s assume that Venus was habitable and Earth-like up until 700 million years ago, when a catastrophic global resurfacing destroyed everything and led to a runaway greenhouse effect, which ...
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Can modern civilization maintain itself under an Earth constantly bombarded with lightning?
I have an Earth unknowingly tainted by a drop of blood shed from a Lightning Deity. The divine blood corrupted the world such that it is always experiencing lightning strikes at an omnipresent scale. ...
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Solution for a modern nation that mustn't see themselves or their own reflection
I have the Propagation Hivemind, an all-female human hivemind(many minds aggregating to form one big mind) numbering in the hundreds of billions populating East Asia. Every member of the Hivemind ...
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Air magic only used to decrease humidity and improve living conditions?
I'm writing a world with an overall warm and very humid climate (Eocene-adjacent, although it does not have to be 100% realistic). Population is very low compared to Earth. Humans generally live in ...
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Can a planet have a warm, tropical climate both at the poles and at the equator?
I am trying to create the perfect planet for life. It will mainly consist of shallow seas/oceans with archipelagos spread throughout the globe. The islands are the same size as New Guinea on average. ...
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If humans colonized Earth 100,000 years ago, would we know it?
Let's say that humans actually originate from another planet. An extinction level event happened on their home planet, and a handful of them escaped, wandering through space looking for a planet that ...
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How might a civilization that comes after us be aided by the fact someone has been here and done it before?
Suppose a hypothetical apocalypse scenario that wipes out all human beings, but leaves infrastructure and the like behind. In particular, digital technologies are mostly unaffected. Consider then, ...
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Building a fictional city on a deserted island from scratch
I am writing a fantasy story in a fantasy world and I have a question about the development of cities. One of the major kingdoms in that world decides to build a city on a newly discovered deserted ...
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Why would a warrior tribe be dependant on a pacifist tribe?
I have two small tribes which are in a similar, small geographical location. One of the civilisations is a group of warriors, called Wolves, who have trained to be warriors since children. The others, ...
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How might civilization develop if hunter-gatherers and/or early agrarian civilizations had access to highly advanced technology? [closed]
Imagine a setting where, across numerous worlds: people without memory, identity or culture wake up surrounded by the ruins and technologies of a highly advanced spacefaring civilization that ...
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What time units would a civilisation constantly travelling between planets and universes use? [duplicate]
While it's possible for an advanced enough civilisation to get some value from atoms and record it in a computer, how would a civilisation without that technology first develop some form of time ...
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How stable would a rogue star system be?
By some means, artificial or naturally occuring, a human inhabited star system has been flung from the Milky Way. Prior to being ejected from the galaxy, the system bears at least one Earth-like ...
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How can kaiju exist in nature and not significantly alter civilization?
I'm building a world where kaiju-sized creatures exist alongside regular-sized creatures. How these kaiju don't crumble under their own weight doesn't matter, and can be explained away by them being ...
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Cultural identity in an Multi-cultural empire
I'm world-building for a universe. I just came up with Deals Best Kept, and I realized I wanted to have a bunch of fantasy races interact, be very culturally diverse and mixed, and also account for a ...
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What could Kaiju do to stop us from travelling into deep space?
The world's overrun with Kaiju but, while they kill many and cause much destruction, our civilization continues, migrating inward, away from the coasts where the Kaiju typically occupy.
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Why might a civilisation of robots invent organic organisms like humans or cows?
In a civilisation of robots (of unknown origin) on an isolated, desolated planet, what motivation might they have for purposefully trying to invent organic organisms?
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Urban Planning on a Tidally Locked World
I'm in the early stages of a project involving a habitable tidally locked world, this one a fairly Earth-like (large ocean) around a K-class orange dwarf. And using this study for reference, where the ...
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