What are the characteristic of a civilization?

Answer 1

There are six:

1) Geographic Boundaries and political insitutuions

• Permanent boundry
• A government to rule within the boundaries

2) Population (a concentration) in distinct areas or cities

• Group of people in a place to trade with

3) Economy that produces food surpluses

• trade extra food to survive and stay in one place

4) Social classes

• theese are based on POWER, such as upper, lower and middle classes

5) Written language/a system of recordkeeping

• Recording trade and/or buisness
• Recording history
• Communicating (spoken or written communication)

6) cultural systems:

1. Religion: at least one organized religion in a civilization
2. Learing: formal system of education such as apprenticeship or schooling systems
3. Art: You have extra time to do this- meaning you know you'll survive tommorow
4. Architecture: planning your building/ thinking about the structure and going through many steps to build it to last long term.