Civilization What makes a civilization Are YOU civilized

Civilization What makes a civilization? Are YOU “civilized”?

Advanced Technology Advanced Cities 5 Characteristics of a Civilization Record Keeping Specialized Workers Complex Institutions

5 Characteristics of a Civilization • • • Advanced cities Specialized workers Complex institutions Record keeping Advanced technology

Catal Huyuk – Modern Turkey World’s Oldest City? 4

Where did early civilizations first develop? River Valleys 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 5

civilization • Complex culture with cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology Back to chart 6

specialization • Development of skills in a particular kind of work. See artisan Back to chart 7

artisan • A skilled worker, such as a weaver or potter, who makes goods by hand. Back to chart 8

institution • A long-lasting pattern of organization in a community See “Barter” Back to chart 9

scribe • Professional record keeper in early civilizations See cuneiform Back to chart 10

barter • A form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money. Back to chart 11

cuneiform • System of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B. C. Back to chart 12

Bronze Age • A period in history (around 3000 B. C. ) when people began using bronze rather than copper or stone. 13

ziggurat • Pyramid-shaped Sumerian temple Back to chart 14

• Pyramid-shaped Sumerian temple 15

Sedentary vs. 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. 16

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 analysis Pastoralism: Advantages: ________________________________________________ Disadvantages: _______________________________________________ Sedentary: Advantages: ________________________________________________ Disadvantages: _______________________________________________ Examples of likely contact/conflict between the two societies: ________________________________________________________________________________ 17 _____________________________________________________

5 Characteristics of a Civilization

How does this Sumerian Ziggurat represent “Civilization”?

Where did early civilizations first develop? __________ Why did ancient civilizations develop in ? 1. _______________________________ 2. _______________________________ 3. _______________________________ 20

nomadic 21

paleolithic 22

patriarchal 23

sedentary 24

pastoral 25

civilization 26

hominid 27

Lucy 28

Neolithic 29

pottery 30

scribe 31

specialization 32

barter 33

artisan 34

migration 35

Ice Age 36

Hunt and Gather 37

domestication 38