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Please Do Now:
- What is civilization? What do you need to do if you want to be called civilized? What does a group of people need to do to be called civilized? Is it always good to be civilized?
Today, students will:
- Come to an imperfect working definition of the world “civilization”
- Come to know the major factors that have led to the growth and spread of world civilizations
Tonight’s homework is:
- Post a SCHOOL APPROPRIATE picture of yourself to the Custom Image Header under the Presentation tab of your weblog.
- Answer the following question as a post on your weblog: Some people say that civilization is the end of human evolution. Do you agree or disagree – why or why not? Don’t forget to press the “Publish” button when you post.
1 response so far ↓
pieroc2011 // August 26, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Civilization
Civilization has at least three characteristics.
•People are suppose to produce extra food
•Establishing there own town or cities
•Each person has a job
Civilization is a place that where people live in cities, villages, towns, etc.
Most of the Civilization has a form of calendars time and writing
Not all people had established permanent home after the Stone Age. There are four specific regions.
•The Nile River valley in Africa
•The valley of the Tigris and Euphrates river in South West Asia
•The Indus River valley in South Asia
•The Hung, or Yellow River valley in East Asia
Government was establish to put rules and to hold the civilization together
Civilization are formed by
•Artisans
•Farmers
•Division of labor
•Trading
•People being Codependent
Civilization comes from the word “City”.
People have lived the same for about 300,000 years
These farmers first built the Irrigation System and canals
The river valley civilization moved people out of the Stone Age
When writing developed and civilization created records, history had begun