Various ancient and medieval civilizations have produced "mirrors for princes" books, which aim to advise new monarchs on how to govern.
This was the age of historicism, the idea that the great civilizations of the past had each produced its own distinctive style.
Who cares whether a civilization produces a distinctive formal vocabulary?
But how could such a chaotic civilization have produced a woman like Serena Butler?
The Browns and other semisentient classes don't change theirs much, but every civilization of Masters produces something else.
A civilization such as this could not produce good infantrymen, he thought, which was why the Americans had reinvented warfare.
Around 5000 BC, a sophisticated civilization already existed and produced some of the first pottery and jewelry in the world.
The more commodities your civilization produces, the more valuable the types of commodities that you can produce.
Oh, Katerina, you haven't seen weapons till you've seen what our civilization produces.
No true civilisation could have produced such a town, which is nothing better than a huge dingy dormitory.