Necessities for a Successful Civilization
This is the source of water that ancient civilizations needed to grow crops and drink.
What is a river?
Planting crops and raising animals is called this.
What is agriculture?
A synonym for trade
What is barter or exchange?
The person or people who make rules and laws for a civilization belong to this group.
What is the government?
When a civilization loses its power or control over its territory, it is said to do this.
What is fall or collapse?
Early civilizations needed to build these to protect themselves from enemies and floods.
What is a wall?
As civilizations grew, people invented new tools and machines to solve problems and make life easier. This process of creating new methods or devices to meet the needs of a growing society is called what?
What is technological innovation or innovation?
When people give money or goods to the government, it is called this.
What is a tax?
This person leads a country, city, or civilization and enforces its laws.
Who is a king, queen, chef or ruler?
Empires often fell after being attacked by these groups from outside their borders.
What are invaders or enemy attackers?
This is a permanent place where people settle and grow food, rather than moving around constantly.
What is a settlement?
By pulling plows, transporting goods, and supplying materials like wool and leather, these tamed animals played a major role in the growth of early civilizations and technological progress.
What is domesticated animals?
Goods that are brought into a civilization from another place are called this.
What are imports?
When women hold all the power within a civilization.
What is a matricarchy?
Sometimes an empire falls because of this inside problem, like poor leadership or corruption.
What is internal weakness or political instability?
Civilizations often choose the location of their capital city carefully. (They might pick a place near rivers, on hills, or at crossroads to make it easier to trade, defend, and govern.)
What is strategic and advantageous location?
The reason why different civilizations have different techonological advancements.
What is due to the access and influence of resources available to them?
The name of the route that China developed to allow trade with Europe?
What is the Silk Road?
In many early civilizations, society was divided into levels or classes, also known as this.
What is a social hierarchy or social class system?
This large empire, famous for its roads and aqueducts, eventually fell due to a combination of invasion, corruption, and economic troubles.
What is the Roman Empire?
The combination of reliable food, water, shelter, and social organization can be called this foundation for a civilization.
What is the infrastructure or foundation of civilization?
The reason civilizations must develop new forms of technology.
What is to meet the needs of their growing population and provide food.
Having this allows for the growth of a civilization.
This form of government relies on elected representatives to make decisions on behalf of the people.
What is democracy?
As civilizations grew, people invented new tools and machines to solve problems and make life easier. This process of creating new methods or devices to meet the needs of a growing society is called what?
What is technological innovation or innovation?