Name:
Things That Make A Civilization
I’ll tell you how it all went down around 4000 BC
1. Describe the changes that occurred during the Neolithic
Before then the world was full of hunters and
Revolution.
gatherers
Then farmers starting farming and raising domestic
animals
This led to a surplus of food
And the desire to settle down and not really move
See, cities began to rise, jobs got specialized
Technology developed; you could say they civilized 2. Describe a traditional society.
New kinds of problems, new kinds of solutions
That’s why this is called the Neolithic Revolution
Traditional societies: the first in the beginning
Subsistence farming for their fam; trade in barter
systems
Video games like Sim City are the simulation
Of how populations organized to civilizations
3. What are the elements of a civilization?
Chorus: Centralized government, organized
religion
These are the things that make a civilization
Social class, specialized labor, communication
These are the things that make a civilization
4. Why did people settle in river valleys?
Water is life and life water delivers
So people settled in fertile valleys right next to
rivers
Egyptians by the Nile, Mesopotamia, Tigris
But those who lacked the rivers were forced to
become migrants
No water means no crops, no crops means
starvation
5. What caused the Bantu Migrations?
People left Central Africa on the Bantu Migration
Villages grew to cities, cities larger and higher
They spread and controlled land, established an
empire
The first was Babylon, they got their battle on to
grow
6. What was Hammurabi’s Code?
Babylonians were ruled by Hammurabi and his
Code
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”
A king among men, artifacts hold the proof
Chorus
7. What were 4 contributions of the Ancient Greek city-states?
Empires come and empires going
Babylonians then Greeks, after Greeks the Romans
The Greeks made contributions in math &
astronomy
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote philosophy
City-states followed the rule of people as policy
The Greeks were the first to be governed by
democracy
Athens was the birthplace; Greek expansion a trait
of the conqueror of Persia: Alexander the Great
Hellenistic influence, Spartans and Trojan
After the Greeks were defeated, the next empire
was Roman
The Romans built roads and thickened their walls
Governed by the Twelve Tables, their first written
laws
Pax Romana was peacetime, Emperor Augustus
rose
The Romans updated old laws with the Justinian
Code
Greek and Roman culture spread afar from just
local
Byzantine Empire went east, rose from
Constantinople
That’s located right by Europe meets Asia
Goods and ideas were exchanged by traders
Ancient civilizations through big and little changes
Laws laid the foundation for the Middle Ages
8. Who was Alexander the Great?
9. Why were the Twelve Tables significant?
10. What was the Byzantine Empire?
Multiple Choice Practice – “Things That Make a Civilization”
1 A direct result of the Neolithic Revolution is that people
(1) began living in permanent settlements
(2) developed a nomadic way of life
(3) depended on hunting and gathering
(4) used crop rotation to increase agricultural output
2 Which feature would most likely be included in an economic system based on traditional agriculture and selfsufficiency?
(1) banks
(2) gold standard
(3) barter
(4) tariffs
3 Which generalization is characteristic of most traditional societies?
(1) people move from city to city seeking new jobs
(2) sons learn the same trades as their fathers
(3) a high degree of social mobility exists
(4) all people have the same economic opportunities
4 The development of early civilizations usually depended on
(1) the formation of democratic governments
(2) a location near large deposits of gold and silver
(3) the existence of large armies
(4) a plentiful water supply and fertile land
5 The primary reason the Bantu-speaking people of West Africa migrated southward and eastward between 500 B.C.
and A.D. 1500 was to
(1) flee warfare
(2) seek religious freedom
(3) establish a colonial empire
(4) find land for farming and grazing
6 The Twelve Tables were the written laws of
(1) ancient Babylonia
(2) the Mauryan Empire
(3) the British Empire
(4) ancient Rome
7 The Justinian Code is considered a milestone because it
(1) preserved many ancient Chinese legal decrees in writing
(2) served as a model for European legal systems
(3) became the first democratic constitution
(4) united Muslim and Roman thought
8 Constantinople was a thriving city in the 1200s mainly because of its location on a major trade route between
(1) China and southern Africa
(2) the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea
(3) the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire
(4) Asia and eastern Europe
9. “If a seignior (noble) has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth. But if he
has knocked out a commoner’s tooth, he shall pay one-third mina of silver.”
-Code of Hammurabi
Which idea of Babylonian society does this portion of the Hammurabi code of law reflect?
1.
2.
3.
4.
all men were equal under the law
fines were preferable to corporal punishment
divisions existed between social classes
violence was always punished with violence
Name:
Things That Make A Civilization
Now this is a story all about how
The way people lived turned upside down
I’d like to take a minute, just sit with me
I’ll tell you how it all went down around 4000 BC
Before then the world was full of hunters and gatherers
Then farmers starting farming and raising domestic animals
This led to a surplus of food
And the desire to settle down and not really move
See, cities began to rise, jobs got specialized
Technology developed; you could say they civilized
New kinds of problems, new kinds of solutions
That’s why this is called the Neolithic Revolution
Traditional societies: the first in the beginning
Subsistence farming for their fam; trade in barter systems
Video games like Sim City are the simulation
Of how populations organized to civilizations
Chorus: Centralized government, organized religion
These are the things that make a civilization
Social class, specialized labor, communication
These are the things that make a civilization
Water is life and life water delivers
So people settled in fertile valleys right next to rivers
Egyptians by the Nile, Mesopotamia, Tigris
But those who lacked the rivers were forced to become migrants
No water means no crops, no crops means starvation
People left Central Africa on the Bantu Migration
Villages grew to cities, cities larger and higher
They spread and controlled land, established an empire
The first was Babylon, they got their battle on to grow
Babylonians were ruled by Hammurabi and his Code
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”
A king among men, artifacts hold the proof
Chorus
Empires come and empires going
Babylonians then Greeks, after Greeks the Romans
The Greeks made contributions in math & astronomy
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote philosophy
City-states followed the rule of people as policy
The Greeks were the first to be governed by democracy
Athens was the birthplace; Greek expansion a trait of the conqueror of Persia: Alexander the Great
Hellenistic influence, Spartans and Trojan
After the Greeks were defeated, the next empire was Roman
The Romans built roads and thickened their walls
Governed by the Twelve Tables, their first written laws
Pax Romana was peacetime, Emperor Augustus rose
The Romans updated old laws with the Justinian Code
Greek and Roman culture spread afar from just local
Byzantine Empire went east, rose from Constantinople
That’s located right by Europe meets Asia
Goods and ideas were exchanged by traders
Ancient civilizations through big and little changes
Laws laid the foundation for the Middle Ages
Chorus