In short, warfare didn't happen until civilization arose.

He had found an even greater project: discovering why civilization arose in the first place.

Their last scouting party had detected nothing significant going on, and they are shocked that our civilization had arisen so quickly.

Besides, there was a chance that it might survive the Federation; when a new civilization arose it would be useful.

Scholars more generally now believe that civilizations arose independently at several locations in both hemispheres.

Throughout Nigeria two more very important West African civilizations arose.

But how could there have been such a culture on Earth before human civilization arose?

As complex civilizations arose, so did complex religions, and the first of their kind apparently originated during this period.

It must be unique, or else other civilizations would surely have arisen elsewhere in the unbounded Universe.

With matter-transposition an interstellar civilization could arise and thrive, even though limited to the speed of light for its ships.