Traits of a Civilization

What is Stable Food Supply?

• Enough food for all of the people all the time.
• Extra food, that’s left over, after everyone has eaten.
• Terrible shortages of food that can cause starvation.

Does a Civilization need to stay in one place? True if you Agree, F if you Disagree

• True
• False

Does a Civilization have to have ONE language? True if you Agree, F if you Disagree

• True
• False

Does a Civilization have to have ONE Religious system? True if you Agree, F if you Disagree

• True
• False

What is Advanced Technology?

• All advances, inventions, and processes created to make life easier.
• A pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.
• A system of levels in society (can be economic or social).
• A set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, with forms of worship.

What is the Written Word?

• All advances, inventions, and processes created to make life easier.
• A pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.
• Symbols and signs put together to make words.
  
• A set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, with forms of worship.

What is a Religious System?

• All advances, inventions, and processes created to make life easier.
• A pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.
• A system of levels in society (can be economic or social).
• A set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, with forms of worship.

What is a Social Structure?

• All advances, inventions, and processes created to make life easier.
• A pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.
• A system of levels in society (can be economic or social).
• A set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, with forms of worship.

What is a Shared Culture?

• All advances, inventions, and processes created to make life easier.

• A pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.

• A system of levels in society (can be economic or social).

• A set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, with forms of worship.

What is Surplus?

• Enough food for all of the people all the time.
• Extra food, that’s left over, after everyone has eaten.
• Terrible shortages of food that can cause starvation.