The FRAME is a graphic organizer that can be used to identify main ideas and supporting details.

– Stable Food Supply – more than you need– Government—ensure order in society– Social Structure-how people groups are organized– Religion—set of beliefs—forms of worship– The Arts—painting, architecture, music, literature– Technology—inventions to make work easier– Writing—highly developed language

Main Ideas on this FRAMEare the Characteristics of a Civilization

We will reread pages 68-69 to locate the supporting details for the characteristics of a civilization.

The FRAME is a graphic organizer that can be used to identify main ideas and supporting details.

Fertile river valleys Water for people/crops

fish

Protect people & food supplyMonarchy (king)Army & officials

Explain lifeExplain natureGods help peoplePriests serve gods

People organized by work & wealth

Rulers & PriestsFree people Artisans -

farmersSlaves

Gov’t officials & warriors

Role of humans

Early systems used symbolsKeep recordsPreserve stories Cuneiform Writing

(first writing system)

PaintingsSculpturesBuildings(architecture)

p.67 End of Neolithic Age

Farming tools:hoes, sickles, mill stones

Metal work: copper

SW Asia: bronzeBronze = copper + tin

By the end of the Neolithic Age, civilizations with shared characteristics began to develop in four major river valleys.

Iirrigation system

Fertile river valleys Water for people/crops

fish

Protect people & food supplyMonarchy (king)Army & officials

Explain lifeExplain natureGods help peoplePriests serve gods

People organized by work & wealth

Rulers & PriestsFree people Artisans -

farmersSlaves

Gov’t officials & warriors

Role of humans

Early systems used symbolsKeep recordsPreserve stories Cuneiform Writing

(first writing system)

PaintingsSculpturesBuildings(architecture)

Farming tools:hoes, sickles, mill stones

Metal work: copper

SW Asia: bronzeBronze = copper + tin

By the end of the Neolithic Age, civilizations with shared characteristics began to develop in four major river valleys.

1) Stable Food Supply- The farmers grew wheat, barley, dates along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

On the back of the FRAME Civilizations handout, read pages 78-38. Is Sumer a Civilization? Show evidence that Sumer is in fact a civilization according to the main ideas.

1) Stable Food Supply- The farmers grew wheat, barley, dates along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

2) Social Structure- Sumerians were divided into 3 groups; Upper, middle and lower classes. For example, the upper class included: Kings, warriors, priests and government officials.

1) Stable Food Supply- The farmers grew wheat, barley, dates along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

2) Social Structure- Sumerians were divided into 3 groups; Upper, middle and lower classes. For example, the upper class included: Kings, warriors, priests and government officials.

3) Government- Monarchy, a government with one ruler, a King.

3)Government- Monarchy, a government with one ruler, a King.

4) Religion- Polytheism, the worship of many gods. Priests worship the cities god at the ziggurat.

4) Religion- Polytheism, the worship of many gods. Priests worship the cities god at the ziggurat.

5) Arts- Built ziggurats, made golden jewelry and Royal standards

4) Religion- Polytheism, the worship of many gods. Priests worship the cities god at the ziggurat.

5) Arts- Built ziggurats, made golden jewelry and Royal standards

6) Technology- Used the Wheel with carts and donkeys, sailboat, wooden plow, potters wheel. Bronze!

5) Arts- Built ziggurats, made golden jewelry and Royal standards

6) Technology- Used the Wheel with carts and donkeys

7) Writing- Scribes wrote Cuneiform on clay tablets with stylus’.

1) Stable Food Supply- The farmers grew wheat, barley, dates along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

2) Social Structure- Sumerians were divided into 3 groups; Upper, middle and lower classes. For example, the upper class included: Kings, warriors, priests and government officials.

3) Government- Monarchy, a government with one ruler, a King. 4) Religion- Polytheism, the worship of many gods. Priests worship the cities god at the

ziggurat.5) Arts- Built ziggurats, made golden jewelry and Royal standards6) Technology- Used the Wheel with carts and donkeys, sailboat, wooden plow, potters

wheel. Bronze!7) Writing- Scribes wrote Cuneiform on clay tablets with stylus’.

On the back of the FRAME Civilizations handout, read pages 78-38. Is Sumer a Civilization? Show evidence that Sumer is in fact a civilization according to the main ideas.