1. Characteristics of Civilizations World History

2. Objectives  Content: Students will identify and describe the characteristics of a civilization.  Language: Students will take notes and discuss main ideas.

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4. Essential Question  What is a civilization?

5. Do you know what a scribe is?  Professional record keeper

6. Review  How did agriculture lead to civilization?  People were able to stay in one place and farm instead of move around all the time.  Population increased  Commerce and Trade increased  They eventually became cities.

7. What is a Civilization?  Advanced cities  Specialized workers  Complex institutions  Record keeping  Advanced technology

8. Advanced Cities  A city is a center for trade  City dwellers produce a variety of goods for exchange

9. Specialized Workers  As cities grow, the need for specialized workers grow as well  Examples: Traders, government officials, and Priests

10.  To specialize means the development of skills in a specific kind of work  Artisans are skilled workers who make goods by hand, like weapons, pottery, and jewelry  The wide range of crafts made cities centers of trade

11. Complex Institutions  Leaders emerge to maintain order and establish laws  Government is an example of an institution

12. Religion  With the growth of cities also came growth of religions.  Religion is another example of a complex institution because it is organized, and there are certain rules to follow

13. Record Keeping  As government, religion, and the economy become more complex, people recognized the need to keep records  Document tax collections, the passage of laws, and the storage of grain  Priests needed ways to keep track of yearly rituals  Merchants had to record amounts of debts and repayments

14. What is a scribe?  A scribe is a professional record keeper  Some kept records with writing and others kept records with pictures, signs, and symbols  A scribe’s tool, called a stylus, was a sharpened reed with a wedge-shaped point. It was pressed into moist clay to create symbols.  Scribes baked their clay tablets in the sun to preserve their writing  They wrote in Cuneiform script, which is the earliest known writing(3000 B.C.)

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16. What did they write about?  Wars  Natural Disasters  Reign of Kings  This started the beginning of history

17. Advanced Technology  New tools and techniques were always needed to solve daily problems  Farmers used animals to plow their fields  Farmers created elaborate systems of irrigation

18.  Artisans created in the potter’s wheel in 3500 B.C. to shape jugs, vases, plates, etc.  Around 2500 B.C. metalworkers discovered how to make Bronze.  They were able to make bronze spearheads instead of stone

19. Modern Day Examples  Share with a partner some modern day examples of each characteristic of a civilization. –Advanced cities –Specialized workers –Complex institutions –Record keeping –Advanced technology

20. Big Ideas  Civilizations grew from cities  Cities were centers of trade  Cities needed specialized workers  Cities needed organized government and religion  Cities needed record keeping- (which started this whole thing we call history)  Cities needed advanced technology

21. QUIZ Use your note sheets to answer these 5 questions on the paper provided Use your note sheets to answer these 5 questions on the paper provided I’ll give you a minute to gather them…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1g60SSGmeY&list=UUAiABuhVS MZJMqyv4Ur5XqA&index=7&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1g60SSGmeY&list=UUAiABuhVS MZJMqyv4Ur5XqA&index=7&feature=plcp

22. 1. How long ago did “Prehistoric” times end? 2. The development of agriculture is tied to the A) Stone Age B) Bronze Age A) Stone Age B) Bronze Age C) Neolithic Age D) Paleolithic Age C) Neolithic Age D) Paleolithic Age 3. What human accomplishment occurred first? A) mastery over fire A) mastery over fire B) wheel invention B) wheel invention C) production of bronze tools C) production of bronze tools D) development of irrigation systems D) development of irrigation systems 4. Which is a characteristic of a civilization? A) advanced cities B) specialized workers A) advanced cities B) specialized workers C) record keeping D) all of the above C) record keeping D) all of the above 5. Where is the birthplace of agriculture?