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Fertile Crescent

Tigris River & Euphrates River

Ruins at Uruk

Ziggurat

Ziggurat at Ur

Challenges in creating a civilization Building Materials? Climate? Challenges for farming?

Irrigation

SURPLUS FOOD PRODUCTION… …means that not everyone has to grow food or tend animals. They can take on other tasks. They can specialize in some non-farming task.

Domestication of Plants and Animals Farming Population Intensification Surplus Food Specialization Complex Society, also known as CIVILIZATION

Requirements of a Civilization Cities / Geography Government / Leadership Religion Record Keeping / Writing Social Classes Specialization of Jobs Trade / Economy Archeology / Art / Architecture Time Line / Important Events Legacy (What is their contribution to the world)