1. Focus question:
What do you think the world looked like in 4,000 BCE?
In 4,000 BCE, I think the world looked like…

2. Do you think it looked like this? Click on video to play

3. Characteristics of Civilization and Mesopotamia

4. Re-Cap Neolithic Revolution was the development of ______________.
agriculture/farming
Once there was farming, humans began developing ________________.
civilizations
The first civilizations developed around __________.
rivers

5. THE MAP OF 1ST CIVILIZATIONS

6. Characteristics of Civilization
Civilization = a complex culture with 5 basic characteristics:
S = Specialized workers
C = Complex institutions
A = Advanced cities
A = Advanced technologies
R = Record keeping

7. Specialized Workers Food surpluses allowed for specialization
Development of skills in a specific kind of work
One person does one job
Examples: Priests, scribes, soldiers, government officials, farmers, artisans – skilled workers making goods by hand

8. Complex Institutions
Institutions are long lasting patterns of organization in a community
Government and laws
Monarchy
Empire
Theocracy
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Religion
Education
Economy
Barter

9. Advanced Cities A city is a large group of people living together
Center of trade for a large area

10. Advanced Technology
New tools and techniques developed to solve problems
Wheel
Pottery
Plow
Sailboat
Bronze weapons and tools
Calendar

11. Record Keeping Must have a written language
Documents taxes, laws, calendars, and rituals
Scribes – professional record keepers
Cuneiform
Heiroglyphs

12. Let’s check your knowledge:
What characteristic do the following pictures show?
Remember:
Specialized workers
Complex Institutions
Advanced cities
Advanced technology
Record keeping

13. What characteristic does this belong to?

14. What characteristic does this belong to?

15. What characteristic does this belong to?
Excerpt from Hammurabi’s Code:
“If a man bring an accusation against a man, and charge him with a [capital] crime, but cannot prove it, he, the accuser, shall be put to death…
If a man destroy the eye of another freeman, they shall destroy his eye…
If one break a man’s bone, they shall break his bone…
If a man knock out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth…”

16. What characteristic does this belong to?
Ziggurat built for worship of gods

17. What characteristic does this belong to?
These baskets were made by hand. People needed these items.

18. What characteristic does this belong to?
These copper tools
were made by
hand

19. What characteristic does this belong to?
Image of a scribe

20. What characteristic does this belong to?

21. Left-Side Processing
Write a paragraph answering the following questions:
If you were the founder and leader of a new modern-day civilization, what would be found in your civilization and what characteristic (SCAAR) would they fall under? What is the purpose of having each thing? Do you think these things make your civilization successful? Why or why not?