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1
the way people live at a particular time and place
- a documentary on the advanced civilization created by the Mayas over a thousand years ago
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2
a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts
- by the 18th century Boston had reached a level of civilization sufficiently advanced to support a circle of portrait painters
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