CIVILIZATION

What is Civilization?
• It includes the way people behave
as well as the stage of development
they have reached
• A Civilization is a group of people
with their own language and way of
life
• Civilization is not fixed. It grows
and changes
Civilization
• The word civilization comes from
the Latin word ‘ CIVIS’, meaning a
city dweller
CIVILIZATION

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 Characteristics of Civilization

Government
Leader Occupations Trade
[laws]

Social [People
Education Religion Communication
living together]
Why Civilizations grow
Growth of Civilizations depends on the
environment and the challenges it
If land becomes overused and infertile,
offers. An easy environment where Where there was a shortage of land,
people just move to new lands without
people are short of nothing , where people had to be creative or inventive
having to develop better farming
food is plentiful, and land is abundant in order to survive.
methods.
does not necessarily lead to a great
civilization.

Where the climate was unfavourable,

e.g. very cold or very dry, people had to
learn to be adaptive
Why
Civilizations
grow

• Environments that offered

challenges forced people
to respond and develop.
One such environment
was the Nile River Valley.