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**CIVILIZATION**
(world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)

(culture focus.com) Some of the most known monuments of the anceint world would be the great pyrimids of egypt. Over 100,000 workers worked on the pyrimids for years and years under the hot north African sun, to build these massive tombs. Without any type of machinery, they put into place more then two MILLION stones that waeighed about an avarage of 2.5 tons EACH! In order to build theses pyrimids it required a highley organized society and tecnology advanced than the neolithic farming villages. These pyrimids were created by ome of the worlds first civilizations. (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)
 * INTRODUCTION **

Religion

( bing) In the beginning of civilization people believed in many gods. People believed in sun gods, river goddesses, and other sprits that were believed to control nature forces. People, priest and worshippers favored there gods by rituals, ceremonies, dances, prayers and hymns. In one hymn of ancient Inda a sick man humbley appeals to the god Varuha for help. To ensure the help the people built temples and scarificed animals, crops and even sometimes other humans. ( world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler) Job Specialization (davidcalvo.com) Jobs in the Neolithic era were artisans, skilled craft workers (who made pottery or finely carved or woven goods, who also learned how to make weapons of copper and bronze), brickworks soldiers, merchants (who sold goods), story tellers (to entertainers in public places).Job specialization made poeple more depedent on others for their diffrent needs. (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)

Public Work (climbingwallsulitions.com) ( Templs and places dominated the city senery, such buildings reasured the people of the governments and religons strenght and power. SKiled workers built and decorated these tempels and palcese. Closely linked to templesand palces were vast public workers that stronger rulers order to be built. Some projects were irrigation system, roads, bridges, and defense walls. (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)

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Art and Architecture (cold10.com) The first items or paintings that were considered art were jewelry. Made out of bone or organic material. The art artists created we suppose to symbolize what kind of person they were. Art was also made out of pottery or carved wooded sculptures. There job was important for useful items such as plates bowls pots utensils to make their life easier back then. Artists still exist today and they are important. Cities The first cities started emerging after farmers began cultivating fertile lands along river alleys and producing enough food for everyone. They started making citied along river sides because it was a great supply of water for all the living people, but it was a challenge to keep flood waters out of the crops. The first citied emerged in certain parts of the world but first where farming was discovered first, Mexico/ South America. Then Asia, Africa, Europe, and Peru but not in that order. Farming was a very important discovery that happened and created cities and civilizations for people to live together. Written Language (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)
 * //Th //**e first writing began in caves. Where priests record important data like information about seasons and rituals and prayers. Early writing was made up of pictograms where a picture would describe the word they tried to represent. As were taught in a temple school. Writing is very important and is complex in many different ways determining the back round of the people or the religon.

Social classes (blogspot.com) In the beginning of civilizations people were ranked according to their jobs. Rulers were at the top of the social rank and then Priests & Nobles usually occupied the second level of an ancient society. Next came small classes of wealthy merchants, humbler artisans, peasant farmers, and then slaves. (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)

Government (tradevv.com) Rulers almost always claimed that their right to rule came from the gods, they then gained religious power as well. As time went on government got more complex. Rulers issued laws, collected more taxes and organized systems of defense. (world history connections to today, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis- Anthonoy Esler)