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Government and laws are the same thing. Here are the CORRECT characteristics:

Social Classes (came about due to specialization!)

Economy (this includes trade!)

Government (laws, legal policies, ways of ruling)

Religion

Writing

Political Boundaries (cities, empires, country boundaries, etc)

Art/Architecture

the reason why "advanced technology" is NOT characteristic of a civilization is because technology is the application of science to help control environment. This was happening in the Paleolithic Age. They had technology. Farmers in the Neolithic had advanced technology, Otzi the iceman had a copper axe during the Stone Age. Technology can be USED in any of these seven characteristics (awls were used by leather-workers, a particular social class; boats were used for trade, steles were used to display Hammurabi's Code, the stylus was used for writing, walls were used to delineate boundaries, Egyptians used pulley systems to build the pyramids). but it is not a characteristic in and of itself.

writing/record keeping, social classes, centralized government, advanced technology (apart from just sticks and stones), organized religion, specialized jobs and a code of laws

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