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This educational resource highlights essential components of civilization, including government, job specialization, advanced technology, social classes, religion, writing, and record keeping. The directions provide a framework for engaging students through debates and group discussions. By printing and distributing slides, students explore how each component contributes to societal organization, the enforcement of laws, economic systems, and the preservation of knowledge. Through paired or small group activities, students will deepen their understanding of civilization's complexities and interconnections.
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DIRECTIONS • Print all slides, preferably on card stock paper • Leave the last 7 slides (characteristics) as is – print on a separate color, if possible • Cut the others 3-4 per slide • Post the topics, distribute the information • Have students debate as pairs or small groups where their information fits.
Makes and enforces lawsto keep order. Exercises authority over an organized state. Plans, organizes, and directs large projects. Collects taxes.
Standardizes money system. Formalizes religious beliefs. Offers guidance in questions of life, death, nature, and spirit. Encourages trade.
Selects clergy/ leadership. Establishes rituals, symbols, shrines, and sacred places. Provides goods and services.
Central location to conduct trade. Collection of specialized building to carry out business. Merchant records of buying and selling.
Enables people to develop specialized skills. Encourages development of new technology. Promotes a system of social classes.
Defines a person’s place in society. Reflects the distribution of wealth. Provides a way to keep accurate records.
Serves as a way to pass on knowledge. Allows people to become experts. Assigned different levels of importance to different groups.
Experts create tools to better perform tasks. New methods make work easier.
Job Specialization
Advanced Technology
Social Classes
Writing & Record Keeping