TOWARDS CIVILIZATION

NOMADS

• Early people moved from place to place, following game
• Moved in groups of 20-30 people

SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY

• Simple tools and weapons such as spears, axes, and digging sticks
• Later developed farming tools

ICE AGE

• Kept warm by building fires and making clothing

DEVELOPING CULTURE

• Verbal language let humans cooperate while working
• Learned to farm about 10,000 years ago
• Stayed in one place

EARLY GOVERNMENT

• City government was established to control irrigation waters
• Bureacracy - a system of managing a government through specialized departments run by appointed officials

SOCIAL CLASSES

• Priests and nobles
• Wealthy merchants
• Artisans (skilled craftworkers)
• Peasant farmers (majority)
• Slaves

PICTOGRAPHS

• An early form of writing

THE FIRST EMPIRES

• Empire - a group of states, territories, and peoples ruled by one person
• Helped limit war
• Established connections between communities
• Formed by various conquerors

REFERENCES

• http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1451105&stc=1&...
• http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/11/02/1226752/048679-0f4bc0a8-436...
• Prentice Hall World History: The Modern Era