1. Five Features of Civilization (Click for Video)
A highly organized and complex society with an advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government, art, & science

2. Advanced Cities In order to be considered a city it must have:
Large population
Must be a center of TRADE

3. Advanced Cities
Farming allowed nomads to settle into permanent villages and cities
People worked harder and longer
Monumental structures begin to appear

4. and make it suitable for
Advanced Cities
Slash and Burn Farming
allowed humans to take
land that was forests
and make it suitable for
farming and animals.

5. Specialized Workers Specialized means someone has the skills to do a
specific kind of
work.

6. Specialized Workers Farmers had surplus – freed up labor
Social, Political, Economic hierarchy develops
Art!
Class differences

7. Record Keeping Must have a developed system of writing so people can:
Record business
Write a set of laws
Priests can record rituals and dates

8. Record Keeping Need to keep track of surplus (grains, livestock, etc…)
Earliest appears in Sumer and Egypt
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics

9. Complex Institutions
Institution: A long lasting pattern of organization in a community such as…
Government
Religion
Economy

10. Complex Institutions Cities require more organization than villages
Government, Rules, Religions, Education, etc…

11. New tools and techniques that solve problems and make life easier.
Technology
New tools and techniques that solve problems and make life easier.

12. Technology The early Sumerians used the wheel, the plow and sailboats
The Bronze Age ( BC) emerges with advanced in metal work (alloys)

13. Pneumonic Devise Avoid Advanced Cities Creatures Complex Institutions
That
Technology
Say
Specialized Workers
Rrrrr!!!!
Record Keeping

14. Knowledge Check: List the five traits of civilization.
How long ago was 1776 AD? BC?
What and where was the earliest form of writing developed?