Question

We group artworks with similar characteristics into periods, civilizations, or styles. Which is the best definition of civilization?
Question 17 options:



The years during which a particular culture created works of art



A stage of social development of a particular people that is characterized by city-building



The common characteristics among many different groups of people around the world



The style of artwork among a group people.

Answer 1

Okay I'm no expert in this but, I'm thinking it might be the style of artwork among a group of people. 

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is The years during which a particular culture created works of art

Explanation:

When we consider the art production of a society, which is a group of people with many characteristics in common, we’ll have to consider what this group has developed through the ages. In other words, we need to compare the beginning, when those people decided to gather around and found a cause for their reunion.

As art is a production of social agents, which is related to society participants and resulted in social interactions, civilization has its art expressions as part of its features.

But differently from many assumptions about civilization, that group didn’t have necessarily to build cities. Many civilizations weren’t concerned to build people agglomerates and found other solutions to places where people would interact and live. That’s a western point of view and consider that only ancient societies like Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Roman and Greece that had civilians agglomerates as civilizations would discriminate against other societies, with mental, laboral and intellectual production, as non-civilization.  

One example is the indigenous societies in America, Africa, and Oceania. Their model of society doesn’t fit in city-building and that was an excuse for Europeans conquest as they were classified as not civilized.  

A civilization encompasses many different styles and periods, depending on their technical development. If we regard to societies based on clay artifacts productions, we’ll realize that style changes according to their expertise with the materials, or even the discovery of different alternatives and solutions to their production.

Civilizations may have many things in common, but the different settlements will have different relationships between their civils and classifying them in the same label can annul their particularities.