7th Gr. History U3 L1-4

Early civilizations that developed near or around a major river and considered the earliest known large human civilizations

• river valley civilizations
• dessert plains
• ocean bottoms
• mountain tops

Civilizations began because of the development of

• agriculture
• geography
• technology
• government

people adopt different jobs like artisan or priest

• specialization
• civilization
• geography
• agriculture

order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top

• social hierarchy
• geographic luck
• specialization
• agriculture

Jared Diamond’s theory that some regions developed more rapidly because the natural resources available to them, climate, and geography gave them an early advantage 

• geographic luck
• geographic disadvantage
• geographic advantage
• social hierarchy

a type of society characterized by most of the following: dense population, agricultural economy, cities, complex social hierarchy, job specialization

• Civilization
• Religious beliefs
• Technology
• Taxidermy

As civilizations developed new systems of ________________________ occurred

• technology
• government
• social hierarchy
• all of the above

action that makes something stronger or more extreme

• intensification
• civilization
• specialization
• evidence

civilization that developed around the Tigris and Euphrates River around 3500 BC/BCE

• Mesopotamia/Sumer
• Hammurabi
• Agarian
• American

large river in modern India/Pakistan

• Nile 
• Indus
• Yellow
• Michigamme