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Civilization |
a complex culture that has at least three characteristics |
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What are the three characteristics of a civilization? |
able to produce surplus, establish towns / cities with government and each person has a different job |
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Job Specialization |
when different people in a civilizationhave different jobs depending on their skills |
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Cultural Diffusion |
spread of ideas and other aspects of culture from one area to another |
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Mesopotamia |
lies between the tigris and euphrates rivers |
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Fertile Crescent |
the arc of land streching form the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea |
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City - state |
the town , the surrounding farmland , and the villages |
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ziggurat |
sumerian temples made of baked brick placed in layers |
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Class System and hierarchy |
people are divided into different social classes based on wealth and occupation |
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Code of hammurabi |
collection of 282 laws that concerned all aspects in Babylon |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
a story a sumerian king htat reflects sumerian belief about life and death |
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Early Civilizations are always located by... |
river valleys |
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The very first civilizations were developed in these 4 river valleys: |
Nile River Valley( Egypt)Tigris and Euphrates ( Iraq)Indus ( India)Huang( China) |
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Irrigation |
ways to get wster to crops |
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Government |
rules to guide peoples behavior |