Trait Definitions
A person who performs a job other than farming
What is a specialized worker?
An extra amount of food
What is a food surplus?
A professional writer
What is a scribe?
A place of worship
What is a temple?
What is the belief in and worship of gods and goddesses
What is religion?
The practice of organizing and storing information
What is recordkeeping?
Taming animals and growing wild plants
What is domestication?
A specialized worker that sells or trades things
What is a merchant?
What is monumental architecture?
Related to trade or money
An organization that sets rules, keeps order, and provides services
What is government?
What is the plow?
A specialized worker that is a religious leader
What is a priest?
The buys and selling of materials and goods
What is trade?
A shared way of life
What is culture?
New tools and techniques
What is improved technology?
The reason food surpluses led to specialized workers
What is less of a need for farmers?
A specialized worker that provides education to children
What is a teacher?
An effect of the invention of the wheel
What is easier trade and transportation?
Decisions made about who gets what resources
What are politics?
Centers of trade, government, and culture
What is a city?
Made specialized workers possible in early civilizations
What is a food surplus?
Three types of specialized workers
What are priests, merchants, teachers, soldiers, scribes, etc.
Two reasons cities were important to early civilizations?
They served as political, economic, and cultural centers
They were centers of trade
They led to complex institutions (government and religion)
A society with a highly developed culture, politics, and technology
What is a civilization?