What makes a civilisation?

What does civilisation mean?
What makes some countries "civilised" and other countries not "civilised"?
Why are some ancient people known as "ancient civilisation" and other ancient people not?
What features do "Ancient Civilisations" have in common?
What was needed to create a civilisation?

These are the fascinating questions that we will start to investigate over the next week or so. We'll do lots of research and discussion in order to try and find some answers.

Some websites that might help are:

A discovery of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece - British Museum
The Ancient World
Ancient Egypt - British Museum
The Roman Empire
Ancient Civilisations - British Museum ***** Top Site
Ancient China - British Museum
Ancient India - British Museum
Ancient Mesopotamia - British Museum