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Chapter 1 Section 3 Notes
Civilization 3
CASE STUDY: Ur in SumerPATTERNS
OF CHANGE
Prospering agricultural villages, food surpluses, and new technology led to the rise of civilizations.
Contemporary civilizations share the same character-istics typical of ancient civilizations.
Overview • civilization
• specialization
• artisan
• institution
• scribe
• cuneiform
• Bronze Age
• barter
• ziggurat
MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW
TERMS & NAMES
I. Villages Grow into Cities
A. Agriculture, domestication of animals, new tools, and ways to
control environment allowed larger communities to grow
B. Economic Changes
1. Irrigation projects
2. Different jobs
3. Led to more products
4. Invention of wheel and sail enabled trade
C. Social Changes
1. Economy affected social structure
2. Importance of job
3. Religion became important job
II. What is Civilization
A. 5 Characteristics of Civilization
1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. List the five characteristics of civilization and give an example from Ur.
continued . . .
Civilization 3HOME
CASE STUDY: Ur in SumerPATTERNS
OF CHANGE
Example from UrCharacteristics of Civilization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Advanced Cities
Specialized Workers
Complex Institutions
Record Keeping
Advanced Technology
Ur’s population of about 30,000 people
Traders, artisans, and scribes
Religion under the authority of priests
Cuneiform tablets
Irrigation systems
Section 3 Assessment
1. Advanced Cities
a. A city is a center of trade for a large area
2. Specialized Workers
a. Traders, government officials, priests, and artisans
3. Complex Institutions
a. Government is a system of ruling
b. Religion
1. Sumerians believed the city belonged to gods
SITE OF SUMMER
4. Record Keeping
Sumerian Scribe
a. Government needed to keep up with tax collection
b. Merchants needed to keep up with accounts
c. Scribes or professional record keepers invented a system of
writing called cuneiform
The wedge-shaped symbols of cuneiform are visible in this close-up of a clay tablet.
1. Cuneiform means wedge shaped
Cuneiform Writing
2. Clay tablets written on with a stylus
Cuneiform Clay Tablet
3. Date, City
4. Sumerians
Sumerian Statuettes, from the Temple of Abu, Tel Asmar, c. 2700 - 2600 B.C., Iraq Museum, Baghdad and Oriental Institute, Universityof
Chicago.
Sumerian Bull Harp
5. Advanced Technology
a. The harness for oxen Sumerians
b. Irrigation systems
c. Pottery
d. By 2500 B.C. Sumerians were making bronze spears
III. Civilization Emerges in Ur
A. Ur was located on the lower Euphrates River
B. Some 30,000 people lived there
C. English archaeologist Leonard Wooley is credited for
finding the site
D. An Agricultural Economy was located there
1. Mud brick walls
2. Ox driven plows
E. Glimpse of City Life
1. One story box like houses
F. Ur’s Thriving Trade
1. Bazaar was like our flea-markets
2. Shops lined the streets
3. No money used the Barter System
a. Trading goods for goods or services for services
G. The Temple: Center of City Life
1. The Ziggurat “ mountain of god” is the tallest building in the
center of the city
Sumerian Ziggurat
2. 100 or more steps to the top
3. At the top was an animal sacrifice alter
1 = A
2 = H
3 = B
4 = J