Eight Features of a Civilization Assessment

1.What is a group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society?

• society
• civilization
• country

2. Where were cities first developed around?

• highways
• rivers/water source
• farms

3. Why were ancient cities developed at the location they were?

• swimming
• shopping
• transportation

4. What feature creates and keeps order in society through rules, and protection through the military?

• Public Works
• Government and Laws
• Cities

5. How was writing used in the past as a feature of a civilization?

• pictures representing words
• email
• newspapers

6. What came along because early farmers were able to settle in a permanent location?

• cities
• religions
• governments

7. What feature was developed as farmers grew larger amounts of crops, less people were needed as farmers?

• social classes
• public works
• job specialization

8. What feature was developed as people began to work at different jobs and to find different levels of respect or different status to different jobs?

• social classes
• writing systems
• job specialization

9. What type of religious beliefs were more common in ancient times?

• monotheistic
• antitheistic
• polytheistic

10. One of the eight features that help make a civilization organized is a complex ___________.

• government
• religion
• city