Is this a complex institution?
Yes!
No!
A place or thing that tries to help a city or civilization run better. Example: An army protects the city.
Advanced Cities
Record-Keeping / Writing
Technology
Complex Institution
Cuneiform is a language that was used in ancient Mesopotamia.
Specialized Workers
Complex Institution
Record-Keeping / Writing
Technology
A scribe is a person that studies how to write and is responsible for recording important events. A scribe is...
Advanced Cities
Specialized Worker
Complex Institution
Record-Keeping / Writing
People gather in these large, organized settlements because farming allowed a surplus of food to support more people.
Complex Institutions
Advanced Cities
Specialized Workers
Technology
Is this a complex institution?
Yes!
No!
Is this a complex institution? (A teacher)
No!
Yes!
Is this a complex institution? (a school)
No!
Yes!
Is this a complex institution? (a temple to the gods)
Yes!
No!
Irrigation for Farms
Record-Keeping / Writing
Complex Institution
Advanced Cities
Advanced Technology
Which characteristic do these people represent?
Advanced Cities
Specialized Workers
Advanced Technology
Record-Keeping / Writing
The earliest kind of writing that we have evidence for is ...
Chinese
Hieroglyphics
English
Cuneiform
Cities became a thing because...
Living closer together protects you from disease.
We had a lot of extra food from farming.
It was simpler to live together in large groups.
We were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
A surplus means...
you have extra of something
you need something but don't have it yet
you want something very badly
you don't have enough of something
Migration means...
Moving from place to place, usually to get food
Having kings and queens
Staying in one place, usually to farm for food
Being a hunter-gatherer
In the earliest civilizations, people were usually paid with...
Golden Coins
Food and Beer
Copper or Bronze Coins
People were never paid
