Each civilisation pushes to the limit one main characteristic.
Egyptians pushed to the limit the tomb building because they believed in afterlife.
Chinese believed in the emperor's heaven mandate, a built big tombs and palaces for them
Greeks pushed to the limit the representation of perfect human in the arts
Romans perfected engineering and resource extractions.
Europe till renaissance and Spain till 1700 built the best and the tallest churches because they believed in God.
Renaissance believed in human and tried to live hedonistically.
Dutch and later British believed in thrift and gaining money and they perfected stock exchange and banking.
If we make the biggest and most beautiful Malls in what we are thinking?
