Characteristics of a Civilization
Characteristics of a Civilization 2
Characteristics of a Civilization 3
Characteristics of a Civilization 4
Characteristics of a Civilization 5
100
to ensure survival of all of the people of a civilization
What is a stable food supply?
100
tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is technology?
100
a person who makes money selling goods
What is merchant?
100
a person who helps record laws
What is a scribe?
100
this invention allowed Sumerians to move heavy loads
What is the wheel?
200
this is the different social levels and jobs a civilization
What is the social structure?
200
this is to record history
What is a written language?
200
a craftsperson
What is artisan?
200
this is the belief made kings very powerful
What is chosen by the god?
200
this invention help add strength and beauty to buildings
What is the arch?
300
this is to ensure order and laws of a civilization
What is government?
300
a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure
What is a civilization?
300
the top people of the Sumerian social structure
What is the king, priests, landowners, or government officials?
300
this is an ancient mesopotamian temple tower
What is ziggurat?
300
this is the language that sumerians created using wedged shaped characters
What is cuneiform?
400
this is a set of beliefs & a way to worship
What is religion?
400
These led to a stable food supply? list 2
What are the plow and irrigation canals?
400
the middle level of the social structure
What are artisans, fishers, farmers, and merchants?
400
this is a characteristic of a civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or a group of people
What is a culture?
400
this a symbol or picture that stands for an object
What is a pictograph?
500
this includes paintings, architecture, music and literature
What is art or highly developed way of life?
500
this is what the irrigation canals supplied crops with
What is water?
500
the bottom of the social structure
What are slaves?
500
These are examples of art. 2
answers will vary
500
these are the 7 characteristics of a civilization
What are a food supply, social structure, government, religion, art, technology, and a written language?
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