Government
Irrigation, City Walls, and Roads are all examples of what?
What are Public Works?
What is one way we study the past?
Written Records: Historians
Artifacts: Archaeologists
What is Food Surplus?
The excess quantity of food available that exceeds the real demand for it.
Historians consider this to be the world's first city.
What is Uruk?
What animal tricked Eve into eating the fruit?
What is a serpent?
Groups of people in similar economic conditions are called what?
What are Social Classes?
What is Religion?
Unified people, explained nature, shaped laws.
Food Surplus created a path for what? (Hint: It let civilizations focus on producing specific resources!)
What is Job Specialization?
Early Civilizations often settled around what land form?
What are River Valleys?
What does a historian study
What is Writing/Records?
A government where the people are in charge.
What is a Democratic Government?
What is a Nomad?
Has no home, has to travel for food, Attacks farming villages?
What determined how successful farming could be in certain areas?
What is Environment?
This word describes the area surrounding something.
What is the Environment?
Who studies artifacts?
Archaeologist
Is Technology one of the 8 Features of Civilization?
No, Technology is NOT one of the 8 features (even though it mattered a lot).
A religion that worships many gods.
What is Polytheism?
What allowed people to stay in one place instead following animals for food?
What is Domestication?
What were Early Homes made out of?
Mud + Straw
Name one curse that came from Adam & Eve disobeying God
Farming was made harder.
Child Bearing was made painful.
Serpents had to slither on their bellies.
Mankind was banished from the garden.
Name the 8 Features of Civilization
Cities, Government, Religion, Job specialization, Social classes, Arts & architecture, Public works, Writing.
Name 2 things cause by job specialization
Trade
Social Classes
Name the challenges that Early Farmers faced?
• Bad weather & climate.
• Disease.
• Attacks from nomads
Early Tools were made of what?
Stone & wood (Not iron yet).
What is the name of someone who studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?