What Makes A Civilization What Makes A People Civilized

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What Makes A Civilization? What Makes A People
Civilized?

• A Journey into the PERSIA GEMs of Mesopotamia
• By Meredith Mazur
• Dover-Sherborn Middle School

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Question What are the PERSIA GEMs
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Answer The nine parts of any civilization.
They are
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Politics

• The art or science of government or governing,
  concerned with internal (national) and external
  (international) affairs.

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Education

• The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a
  learning process.

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Religion

• Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power
  or powers regarded as creator and governor of the
  universe.
• What people believe in- gods, spirits

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Social Structure

• The people in a society considered as a system
  organized by a characteristic pattern of
  relationships.
• The jobs people do
• Who has more status in a society

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Ideas, Inventions and Innovations

• A new device, method, or process developed from
  study and experimentation
• The act of introducing something new.

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Arts, Architecture and Entertainment

• The production of sounds, colors, forms,
  movements, or other elements in a manner that
  affects the sense of beauty.
• The art and science of designing and erecting
  buildings.
• Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts,
  especially a performance or show

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Geography

• The physical characteristics, especially the
  surface features, of an area.
• The land, animals, climate, resources.

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Economy

• The system of production and distribution and
  consumption. How people make money.

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Military

• Of or relating to the study of the principles of
  warfare
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of members of
  the armed forces
• Soldiers, defense of an area, attacks/conquering
  other people.

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Your Task

• View the next images carefully decide which of
  the P. GEMs you think they best represent and
  why.

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Image 1
http//keidahl.terranhost.com/Fall/WOH1012/Images/
CuneiformTablet.jpg
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Image 2
http//members.tripod.com/jaydambrosio/Bigziggurat
Ur.JPG
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Image 3
http//oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/life_lar
gewindow.html
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Image 4
http//www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
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Image 5
http//www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
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Image 6
http//www.chaldeansonline.net/photo/mesop2.html
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Image 7
http//jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Meso/h
ammarabi2.gif
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Image 8
http//www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?
dep3viewmode0item33.35.3
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Image 9
http//jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Meso/w
arrior.jpg
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Image 10
http//oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/religion
.html
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Image 11
http//www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
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• Frysinger, Galen R. Euphrates, Old and New along
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• Works of Art Ancient and Near Eastern Art.
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  http//www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewHigh.asp
  ?dep3viewmode0set02