1. 5 Characteristics of Early Civilizations
Advanced cities
Specialized workers
Complex institutions
Record keeping
Improved technology

2. MESOPOTAMIA
Irrigation systems

3. MESOPOTAMIA
Walls of mud bricks

4. 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

5. 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

6. MESOPOTAMIA
Hammurabi

7. EGYPT

8. EGYPT