There are many characteristics/factors that determine what makes a civilization advanced. Some characteristics or factors would be innovations, inventions, religion, and social classes/structures. All of these factors make a civilization advanced because it sets them up for an opportunity to advance intellectually and as a society. Even if some of these factors were excluded, the civilization/society could still advance technologically and intellectually through another method of some sort. Now to answer the question, what makes a society a civilization? Having any of these characteristics with a large populous and a structure of some form makes a society a civilization. A civilization is a group of people in a area and has factors such
