civilised is also a loaded word, do we mean a passed down culture or a city dwelling culture? Native epics etc? i mean, at what point do we say that for instance the English were civilised? Was it when they were Christianized? When the literacy levels went more than 50%?
The definition for the word, civilized, originates from describing a person or culture that has abandoned a nomadic culture to live in relatively permanent communities described as cities, towns, and villages. The other usages of civilized then tend to be comparative between the social customs of the more civilized and uncivilized cultures to the more civilized and more technologically advanced cultures. Among Amerindian cultures, one Amerinidan culture discriminated against another Amerindian culture by describing its own culture as civilized and the enemy culture as uncivilizedd because of differences in ethnic origins, language, and cultural habits.