8 Traits of a Civilization

​Use the slides and the information we talked about in class to help you answer the following questions!

Multiple Choice

What lead to larger populations?

• More people wanting to live near each other

• Food Surpluses

• People got better at hunting

• The Ice Age

Multiple Choice

Due to food surpluses, people could make a living doing something other than farming. This lead jobs to become

• Important

• Harder to get

• Specialized

• It did not affect jobs

Open Ended

List TWO different specialized jobs

Multiple Select

What did governments do? (select all that are correct)

• Create Laws

• Collect Taxes

• Oversaw the Military

• Make living there less fun

Multiple Choice

Most ancient people were

• Polytheistic

• Monotheistic

Multiple Choice

Polytheistic means

• the belief in one god

• the belief in no god

• the belief in multiple gods

Multiple Choice

What was a person social class connected to?

• Their marriage

• Their job

• Their children

• Their parents

Reorder

Reorder the following from top (1) of the social class to the bottom (4) of the social class

• Priests and Nobles

• Merchants and Artisans

• Farmers and Peasants

• Slaves

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Open Ended

Give ONE example of how we still have art and architecture today?

Multiple Select

What are examples of public works for ancient civilizations? (select all that are correct)

• Roads

• Canals

• Defensive Walls

Multiple Choice

The earliest forms of writing were

• pictograms or pictographs

• Symbols

• Letters