Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Flashcards
What was the progression to civilization?
Farming settlement, village, town, city, city state, civilization.
In order to progress at each level of development what did their need to be?
1) production of surplus
2) greater and greater trade
3) population growth
As trade increased what happened?
People exchanged more goods resources and ideas. These exchanges led to the development of mor advanced cultures, cities, and civilizations.
With larger population what was important about the caused?
Caused social and political changes.
What does political mean?
Having to do wit government
What does social mean?
Having to do with social structures of people and society
What does economic mean?
Related to the product of wealth.
What did societies become?
More complex
What developed?
New kind of leaderships
What was a division of labor?
This is were people began working according to their abilities
Who is a merchant?
A person who sold goods they had bought from traders.
What did the division of labor do?
Greatly changed society
Because the work work of groups of people ad different what?
Different levels of responsibility, society became divided into social classes
What are social classes?
Groups of people with different levels of responsibility and power society
What was the highest social class their was?
Rulers,priest, and other important family’s and leaders
Where did the leaders come from?
Came from important family’s and began to pass on their position to chosen family members keeping power within each leader.
What did town leaders have to manage?
They ad to manage more people, larger food supplies(surpluses and supplies) and wider trade.
With more responsibility’s what grew?
Power
What did the leaders create?
They created unwritten laws tat people had to live by.
This kind of leadership was the beginning of….
Government, an organized system of leaders and laws.
What does urban mean?
Relating to a city or cities.
How many people are often in the cities?
5000 people or more
What do city governments need to be?
Highly organized.
What were the leaders in charge of doing?
Building longer walls for defense, maintaining water supplies, and irrigation systems.
What did people learn to. Do?
Learned to do even more specialized jobs
What did government officials do?
They help manage the city
What did the management of cities lead to?
Led to taxation
What does taxation mean?
A system in which people support the government
How do people pay their taxes?
By working on government and others pay their taxes by crops.
What were crops used to pay?
City officials and to trade for other goods.
What does Civilization mean?
A society with developed forms of religion and ways of governing
What were some common characteristics of civilization?
Covered larger areas.
Better organized societies and economics.
Constructed larger buildings and temples.
A central government.
Advances in science, mathematics, and transportation.
Some forms of writing.
Religious supported and controlled by government.
