Questions tagged [civilization]
For questions about groups of societies and their defining characteristics and achievements.
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Would a species with 3 sexes be more adept at warfare and hard labor compared to humans? [closed]
For my fantasy story, I was trying to conceive of a three-gendered species for more uniqueness. I finally thought up an idea that might make biological sense. For mammals, the male sex has the sperm ...
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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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Would moving the equator to the Tropic of Cancer increase Earth's arable land?
In real life, the majority of Earth's land is in the Northern Hemisphere. The vast majority of people also live in the Northern Hemisphere. Essentially every important country (economics-wise and ...
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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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What could be the next technological revolution for a society that has FTL travel tech? [closed]
In a society with FTL travel tech that is relatively mature (like a Star Wars or Star Trek civilization), what could be the next technological breakthrough BESIDES teleportation (as I feel ...
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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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River valley civilization in woodland steppe?
I'm creating an antiquity-age earthlike world starting at the early bronze age. One of my continental interiors is a large, fairly flat, hot steppe region predominantly covered in steppe woodland, ...
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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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Could a civilization have existed on earth when our planet was much smaller, and as earth gained more size could it have grew around and above them? [closed]
I want to create a civilization that were living on earth when the planet was a much smaller protoplanet or a planetesimal. If earth grew over billions of years, could a civilization have existed ...
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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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Would medieval humans know if an ancient civilization had existed and been wiped out?
Let's say there was a society of lizard people that were highly intelligent, about 50 million years ago. They built permanent structures and developed up to an industrial tech level; they had iron ...
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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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Minimum technology required to discover relativity?
As the title states, what’s the least-powerful technology a civilization needs before they are capable of developing and verifying an accurate theory of special & general relativity?
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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 does an explorer civilization survive the Dark Forest Scenario?
The Dark Forest hypothesis is one put forth by author Liu Cixin in a novel named thus, which essentially revolves around three primary assumptions:
There is life everywhere throughout the galaxy - ...
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