Characteristicis of a Civilization

tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs

• anthropology

• government

• technology

• material culture

the ruling authority of a community

• government

• social structure

• technology

• irrigation

stable pattern of social behavior

• developed culture

• religious system

• social structure

• social class

a social position that a person holds

• irrigation

• status

• roles

• government

civilizations have a religion where people can share a belief system and traditions

• kinship system

• religious system

• fighting system

• caste system

a way of supplying water to an area of land

• irrigation

• government

• agriculture

• technology

to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control

• government

• domesticate

• technology

• irrigation

there is enough food for all the people all the time

• technology

• social structure

• key characteristic

• stable food supply

characteristics that make the group unique

• irrigation

• developed culture

• status

• religious system