5 Characteristics of Early Civilizations

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5 Characteristics of Early Civilizations Advanced cities Specialized workers Complex institutions Record keeping Improved technology

MESOPOTAMIA Irrigation systems

MESOPOTAMIA Walls of mud bricks

MESOPOTAMIA Trade whatever supplies/goods they had, for whatever supplies/goods they needed. Priests in charge unless at war then military leaders took over until war over. War became more common Military leader kept power Sons inherited

MESOPOTAMIA Religion Literature Architecture Inventions polytheism Poetry Ziggurats Wheel Sail gods controlled nature Epic of Gilgamesh Arches Plow Maps Human qualities Columns # system with a base of 60 immortal ramps Cuneiform tablets

MESOPOTAMIA Hammurabi

EGYPT

EGYPT