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CivilizationWhat makes a civilization?
Are YOU “civilized”?
5 Characteristic
s of a Civilization
Advanced Cities
Specialized Workers
Complex Institutions
Record Keeping
Advanced Technology
5 Characteristics of a Civilization
• Advanced cities• Specialized workers• Complex institutions• Record keeping• Advanced technology
Catal Huyuk – Modern TurkeyWorld’s Oldest City?
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Where did early civilizations first develop?
Why did ancient civilizations develop in river valleys?
1. River valleys offered rich soils for farming
2. abundance of water for large scale agriculture & irrigation
3. Tended to be in areas easily protected from nomadic invaders
River Valleys
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civilization• Complex culture with cities, specialized
workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology
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specialization
• Development of skills in a particular kind of work.
Back to chartSee artisan
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artisan• A skilled worker, such as a weaver or
potter, who makes goods by hand.
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institution• A long-lasting pattern of organization
in a community
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scribe• Professional record keeper in early
civilizations
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barter• A form of trade in which people
exchange goods and services without the use of money.
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cuneiform• System of writing with wedge-shaped
symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
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Bronze Age• A period in history (around 3000 B.C.)
when people began using bronze rather than copper or stone.
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ziggurat
• Pyramid-shaped Sumerian temple
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15• Pyramid-shaped Sumerian temple
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Pastoralism
Ten to twelve thousand years ago, at approximately the same time that agriculture emerged, a parallel specialization appeared: pastoralism, the herding of domesticated or partially domesticated animals.Pastoralism has much more in common culturally with hunting and gathering ways of life since it is necessity to move the herds continually in search of fresh pastures making this a wandering, nomadic way of life. For Pastoralists, human and livestock populations tended to fluxuate according to shifts in climatic conditions impacting the availability of grasses. While pastoral life is demanding and often dangerous, it is, as a way of life, relatively stable over long periods of time--like hunting and gathering is. What one generation knew and did, the next generation knew and did. Pastoralism tended to develop on marginal land apart from areas suitable for agriculture, often in semi-arid regions. Frequently, the two ways of life, pastoralism and agriculture, were compatible, or even mutually dependent upon one another through symbiotic trade relationships. Wherever the two modes of life existed near one another, a lively trade usually sprang up between farmers who had food and other objects to exchange, and pastoral nomads, who had products such as hides, wool, meat, and/or milk.
Sedentary vs. Pastoralism
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Sedentary While they are not exciting in appearance, settled agricultural villages like this early example at Ban Po, China (below left) and Catal Huyuk, modern Turkey (below right), represented a radically new way of life for human beings, unlike anything that had existed before. First, agriculture means sedentism--living permanently in one place. This was itself new to human beings, and it may have seemed very constraining to the first people to experience this way of life. Living in one spot permanently means exploiting a relatively small amount of land very intensively (rather than exploiting a large amount of land extensively, as hunter-gatherers did), and over a long period of time.
Pastoralism vs. Sedentary – an analysisPastoralism:Advantages: _______________________________________________________________________________________________Disadvantages: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Sedentary:Advantages: _______________________________________________________________________________________________Disadvantages: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Examples of likely contact/conflict between the two societies: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5 Characteristic
s of a Civilization
How does this Sumerian Ziggurat represent
“Civilization”?
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Where did early civilizations first develop? ___________________
Why did ancient civilizations develop in ?
1._____________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________
3._____________________________________________________________
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nomadic
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paleolithic
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patriarchal
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sedentary
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pastoral
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civilization
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hominid
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Lucy
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Neolithic
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pottery
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scribe
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specialization
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barter
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artisan
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migration
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Ice Age
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Hunt and Gather
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domestication