Grade 6 Social Studies Development of Societies

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Grade 6 Social StudiesDevelopment of Societies

• Chapter 5
• Houghton Mifflin Social Studies

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Features of a CivilizationFor a society to be a
civilization, it must have 5 characteristics

• Stable food supply
• System of government
• Specialization of labor
• Social levels
• Development of culture

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How did societies develop?

• Humans became food producers by domesticating
  animals and plants.
• Animals became a reliable food source
• People stayed in one place and developed settled
  communities

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Neolithic Settlements

• Catal Huyuk
• Ain Mallaha
• Umm Dabaghiyah-small, not much farming, poor, dry
  soil, hunted donkey like animal called the onager
• All located in the Middle East

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Catel Huyuk

• Neolithic settlement located in the Middle East
• Economy based on agriculture
• Chief crop was wheat, peas, crabapples, juniper
  berries, acorns, nuts almonds.
• Raised cattle hunted bears, deer wolves

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More facts on Catel Huyuk

• Approximately 100 mud houses, all the same size
• No streets, traveled from house to house by
  walking on each others roofs.
• Center for trade traded obsidian (dark, shiny
  glass formed from volcanic ash)

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City of Ur

• Located on dry plain between Tigris Euphrates
  Rivers
• River used for irrigation, irrigation brought
  specialized labor, develop stable food supply
  population growth
• Social levels system of writing

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What is agriculture?

• The science, art business of raising animals
  plants to supply food for humans
• All Neolithic farming settlements way of life
  practiced agriculture

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Famine

• Famine is a widespread shortage of food
• Hunter gatherers stored grain to prevent famine
  from occurring.

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Irrigation

• Irrigation is the act of supplying dry lands
  with water
• Irrigation helped early civilizations by bringing
  a stable food supply.
• Workers needed to irrigate the land, so it
  brought a specialization of labor.

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Domestication

• To train or adapt an animal or plant to live in
  a human environment
• By domesticating plants and animals it made them
  more useful to humans.

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Shrine

• A shrine is a sacred place of worship
• Catal Huyuk used obsidiian to create shrines.
• Catal Huyuk buried people in their homes,
  evidence of shrines found in homes, therefore
  they had a form of religion

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Environment

• All the living non-livings things in a persons
  surroundings
• Hunters-gatherers found plants and animals that
  were found naturally in the environment

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More Key Terms

• Self-sufficient being able to provide for
  oneself

• Surplus an extra amount