Characteristics of a Civilization by https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg en-us 2021-04-19 07:58:03 UTC 2025-09-24 02:15:21 UTC hello@padlet.com features of ancient civilizations charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432003690 What are the characteristics of civilisation
There are four main ancient civilization's
1.Mesopotamian
2.Egyptian
3.the Indus Valley
4.Chinese
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]]> 2021-04-19 08:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432010639 The Sumerian civilisation is the oldest civilisation. The term Sumerian is today’s Used to represent south and most supportive Mesopotamia. It flourished in 3000 BC. This civilisation was mainly agriculture and had community life. This civilisation was well known for art and crafts and metal work. They are called creation of civilisation. Some Important features of their civilisation are that they had a polytheistic belief system and worshipped many gods and goddesses. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432013386 2021-04-19 08:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432013386 Most buildings were built with brick and mud as stone was not available.Some of the jobs in ancient Mesopotamia included farming, pottery, weaving, teachers, astronomers, and livestock raisingTrading was also a big deal in MesopotamiaThey were excellent sculptors and artisans. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432019229 2021-04-19 08:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432019229 The Egyptian civilisation was a famous for construction and building techniques for example building of pyramids, temples and obelisks Oblesiks Is a tempering strong pillarit is also also famous for a system of maths and medicine and for irrigation systems and agricultural fruit production techniques charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432022396 2021-04-19 08:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432022396 it had very fertile land and grow crops like wheat flax and papyrus developed along the beautiful night in Africa around 4000 BCAncient Egyptians developed wide-reaching trade networks along the Nile, in the Red Sea, and in the Near East.The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians include the quarrying, surveying and construction and a system of mathematics, a practical and effective system of medicine, irrigation systems and agricultural production techniques, the first known planked boats, Egyptian faience and glass technology, new forms of literature, and the earliest known peace treaty, made with the hittets charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432027380 2021-04-19 08:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432027380 The Indus Valley civilisation of India including current day India and Sindh and Pakistan had Excellent Infrastructure and many water supply and Sanitation devices. Most houses were made from dried bricks, or clay bricks. The urban areas of personalisation included public and private banks. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432033143 2021-04-19 08:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432033143 Sewage was thrown out through underground drains bed with bricks and so this pic gated water system with present boy wires were there rain from houses were connected to public drains. Water from bathrooms on the roof was carried through drains made of terracotta that fitted onto the street drains.A wooden screen at the end of the drains held back solid wastes. Liquids entered a cess poll made of radial bricks. Tunnels carried the waste liquids to the main channel connecting the dockyard with the river estuary. Commoner houses had baths and drains that emptied into underground soakage jars. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432035126 2021-04-19 08:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432035126 Tea has played an important role in Chinese civilisation it was the opening of China to the modern world through the first of opium war. Tea leaves were used as herbal medicines added to their food for health benefits and as an anti-dude for poison it also helps in digestion which is why Chinese people drink tea After their meals it also helps in nervous disorders. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432038153 2021-04-19 08:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432038153 Traditionally, tea drinkers were regarded as the 'academic' and 'cultural elites' of the society. The practice of drinking tea was considered to be an expression of personal morality, education, social principles, and status. Increased enthusiasm for tea drinking led to the greater production of teaware, which significantly popularized Chinese porcelain culture.Ancient Chinese scholars used the teahouse as a place for sharing ideas. In modern China, virtually every dwelling—even down to the simplest mud hut—has a set of tea implements for brewing a cup of hot tea.  charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432039991 2021-04-19 08:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432039991 Written reference of tea charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432041090 The first written reference to the usage of tea was in 350 AD  when KVODO updated and old Chinese dictionary. Tea tea at his time was in the form of green tea. In the interior Part of China Tea leaves where squashed into bricks and used As money to exchange Goods.]]> 2021-04-19 08:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432041090 the rise of Mesopotamian civilisation charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432047936 •Mesopotamia Was formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and Ancient China, along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. 
•They are now Iraq and Kuwait. Early civilisation began to form around the time of the new lithic revolution 12,000 BC due to which humans started to settle in the area and started farming and community living because of agriculture and Architecture the civilisation grew slowly 
]]> 2021-04-19 08:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432047936 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432051355 •Not only was Mesopotamia one of the first places to develop agriculture, it was also at the crossroads of the Egyptian and the Indus Valley civilizations.
• This made it a melting pot of languages and cultures that stimulated a lasting impact on writing, technology, language, trade, religion, and law.
•Associated with Mesopotamia are ancient cultures like the Sumerians, Assyrians, Akkadians, and Babylonians.
]]> 2021-04-19 08:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432051355 Art is one of the most important features of ancient civilisation. Art tells us about the culture, Beleifs and values of the civilisation. Ancient art was created from around 3000 BC to 400 AD the oldest art goes back to the  stone age during the upper Neolithic  charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432058776 2021-04-19 08:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432058776 Culture refers to the shared values, beliefs and norms of a specific group of people. Culture, therefore, influences the manner we learn, live and behave. Culture is an important shaper of our personality. In this way culture has an impact on the manner we learn and behave with others that is why culture is a part of our personalitypersonality is obtained through culture and not biology charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432062417 2021-04-19 08:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432062417 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432065375 •Neolithic is also known as the new stone age it represents human culture after the palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. 
•Its features are pottery  making , permanent  houses ,domestication of animals and plants. 
Trade increased during this period 
]]> 2021-04-19 08:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432065375 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432067928 •Palaeolithic is also called the old stone age.
•The palaeolithic is known by the use of old chipped stone tools although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools.
• People learned to build fires , keep records and communicated using carved paintings . 
People also started to belief in life after death 
]]> 2021-04-19 08:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432067928 The word civilization comes from the Latin word civilise meaning citizen. Civilization is also referred  to an urban life which is developed on agriculture Civilization is marked by hierarchy. In many ways study of history is actually the study of civilization  charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432070956 2021-04-19 08:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432070956 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432073559 •Skilled labours led to various social classes 
•System of record keeping led to writing which helps us study and identify early civilisatons .
•People started to produce textiles, pottery, buildings, tools , metal work, sculptures and painting .
•Between 10000 and 1000 BC the population of the world went from about 6 million to about 120 million.
•In the valleys of Tigris -Euphrates , Nile, Indus and huang(yellow) river in northern china , larger and more populated settlements emerged finally leading to emergence of cities and states .
]]> 2021-04-19 08:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432073559 The four civilization are Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indus valley and Chinese From Mesopotamia emerged Empire of Sumeria ,Babylon and Assyria The Egyptian empire came from the fertile planes of the Nile river. Egypt was marked by great monuments and a developed society The Chinese  civilization came from the  yellow river The yellow river is also called as the haung river it is located in Nothern China. It is the sixth largest river in the world .  charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432078567 2021-04-19 08:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432078567 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432081696 •The Indus valley civilization extended from North East Afghanistan to Pakistan and North west India from 3300 –1300 BC  
•The Indus civilization began with some major developments like the introduction of writing and a surprisingly uniform culture over the whole of the greater Indus valley.
•In1856 British officers in India were supervising the construction of a railway between the cites of Lahore and Karachi (Pakistan) along the Indus river during this time some of the workers found 1000’s of fire baked bricks in the dry region these workers used these to build the road bed but later realised that the bricks had artistics  marking which later were discovered to be the remains of the indus valley civilization
]]> 2021-04-19 08:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432081696 Ancient Chinese civilization Emerged between the Neolithic period (6000-1750BC) and the Han dynasty (206BCE-2200bce ). The Zia dynasty of china (from BC 2070 to 1600 BC ) is the 1st dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as sima Qian records off the grand historian. Chinese civilization began along the Yellow River in the Shang era, and spread from there when Bronze Age culture reached its peak. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432085215 2021-04-19 08:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432085215 Around 6000 BCE settlement began an humans moved closer to the  Nile River in search of water resources the Nile River flooded annually and made the soil fertile and agriculture became the way of life for the people. This also lead to trade and  economic development along the Nile in the Red Sea and the near east The Egyptian kept written records using a writing system known as hieroglyphics through these records archaeologists were able to discover the Egyptian civilization. Egyptian rulers used monumental architecture to show their power and kingship. There were repeated fights for political control of Egypt which indicates how difficult important agriculture was in the civilization charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432087902 2021-04-19 08:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432087902 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432437770 2021-04-19 10:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1432437770 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1433705157 2021-04-19 15:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1433705157 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436433900 ancient Mesopotamia ]]> 2021-04-20 06:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436433900 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436440999 2021-04-20 06:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436440999 What was it like to be a king in ancient Egypt? Well, for one thing, if you were Pharaoh, you would be a god. A pharaoh had absolute power over everything and everyone. No one could argue with you. No one could yell at you. No one could even call you by your name. They did not call you “the pharaoh,” but simply Pharaoh. charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436457913 wepikedia.com ]]> 2021-04-20 06:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436457913 britanica.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436466059 2021-04-20 06:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436466059 google.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436477355 2021-04-20 06:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436477355 britannica.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436478052 2021-04-20 06:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436478052 charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436481036 wordpress.com ]]> 2021-04-20 06:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436481036 history.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436483420 2021-04-20 06:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436483420 amazon.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436484011 2021-04-20 06:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436484011 pintrest.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436485547 2021-04-20 06:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436485547 pexels.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436489763 2021-04-20 06:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436489763 epikedia .com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436490789 2021-04-20 06:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1436490789 wekipedia.com charumohan175 https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1437484569 2021-04-20 12:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/charumohan175/m61xlywu4szcoflg/wish/1437484569