Eight Features of a Civilization

What is a group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society?

• society
• civilization
• country

Where were cities first developed around?

• rivers/water source
• highways
• farms

Why were ancient cities developed at the location they were?

• transportation
• protection
• shopping

What feature creates and keeps order in society through rules, and protection through the military?

• Cities
• Public Works
• Government and Laws

How was writing used in the past as a feature of a civilization?

• newspapers
• pictures representing words
• email

What feature came about because the early farming villages began to grow a surplus of food and populations grew?

• Jobs
• Religion
• Cities

What feature was developed as farmers grew larger amounts of crops, less people were needed as farmers?

• Job specialization
• Public works
• Social classes

What feature was developed as people began to work at different jobs and began to find different levels of respect or different status to different jobs?

• Writing systems
• Social classes
• Job specialization

What was an important invention that developed the feature of public works?

• irrigation systems
• the wheel
• writing systems

What type of religious beliefs were more common in ancient times?

• monotheistic
• antitheistic
• polytheistic