| A | B |
|---|
| Villages | Earliest developed around river valleys |
| bureaucracy | an efficient method of governing that divides government into departments or cabinets |
| Organized Government | villages needed to form this to help maintain public works and provide law and order |
| Priests | usually the leaders of early civilizations |
| Polytheism | Belief in many gods |
| Monotheism | Belief in one god |
| Rituals/Ceremonies | proof of a religion in a society; generally performed to avoid punishment from the gods |
| Nature Spirits | gods that occupy things like trees and water; animist faith; most common type of gods in developing civilizations |
| A society's division of labor usually dictated this | one's social class |
| job specialization usually found in early civilzation's division of labor hierarchy | priests, artisans, merchants, farmers, etc. |
| Slaves | the lowest social class |
| Public Works | Bridges, Roads, irrigation systems, etc |
| Pictograms | Pictures that represent words; usually a society's firstform of writing |
