1. Characteristics of a Civilization:
Warmup #5
On the back of yesterday’s notes, fill in the boxes below of
examples of the 5 characteristics of a civilization
Characteristics of a Civilization:
Current Example
Advanced Cities
Detroit, Mt Pleasant, Grand Rapids
Complex Institutions
Church, Mt Pleasant city government, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
Specialized Workers
Teachers, Doctors, Lawyers
Advanced Technology
Computers, Smart phones
Record Keeping
Laws, receipts, tax rolls,

2. Sumerians

3. World's First Civilization
3300 BCE Sumer was formed
Located in the Fertile Crescent
Rich soils allowed for farming
Mesopotamia—land between the rivers
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

4. Sumerian Culture Houses made of clay bricks
Relied on rivers to trade goods
First to invent wheeled vehicles
Built ziggurats- Temples to worship Gods
Created Cuneiform—writing which used
wedged marks

5. http://balkhandshambhala. blogspot
Sumeria’s city of Ur

6. End of Sumerians Around 1900s Sumerians were conquered
by Sargon of Akkad, then eventually by
Hammurabi of Babylon

7. Five Themes of Sumer ____ Absolute Location Created farmland
____ Relative Location
____ Place
____ Movement
____ Human-Environment
Interaction
____ Region
Created farmland
Fertile Crescent
Between the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
Used rivers to trade
32N 47E
Rich soil and rivers