🏛️ VOCABULARY
A society with a highly developed culture and technology.
Civilization
The development in human society that came after ancient cultural hearths.
Civilizations
A person who performs a job other than farming.
Specialized worker
The practice of organizing and storing information.
Record keeping
One of the five traits of civilization involving new and better tools.
Improved technology
The belief in and worship of one or more gods and goddesses.
Religion
Large population centers that became cultural, political, and economic centers.
Cities
A professional writer who recorded official information.
Scribe
Professional writers who recorded official information.
Scribes
The science of obtaining metals in their natural form and preparing them for use.
Metallurgy
A place of worship.
Temple
The five major characteristics used to identify a civilization.
Cities, complex institutions, specialized workers, record keeping, and improved technology
The exchange of goods.
Trade
One important thing scribes recorded in early civilizations.
Traditions and laws
Metallurgy was important because it allowed people to make these.
Stronger and more complex tools
A political, economic, and cultural center with a large population.
City
A place of worship believed to be one of the earliest examples of monumental architecture.
Göbekli Tepe
People who could make tools or work with metal are examples of these workers.
Specialized workers
This important civilization trait allowed societies to organize and preserve information.
Record keeping
A major change that allowed societies to develop specialized workers.
Food surpluses
An organization set up to make and enforce rules in a society.
Government
Large structures built for specific purposes.
Monumental architecture
These workers became possible when enough food was produced that not everyone needed to farm.
Specialized workers
The ability to keep track of important information helped make societies more this.
Organized
More food than is needed by a population.
Surplus