DIRECTIONS

1. Print all slides, preferably on card stock paper2. Leave the last 7 slides (characteristics) as is –

print on a separate color, if possible3. Cut the others 3-4 per slide4. Post the topics, distribute the information5. Have students debate as pairs or small

groups where their information fits.

Makes and enforces laws to keep order.Exercises authority over an organized state.

Plans, organizes, and directs large projects.

Collects taxes.

Standardizes money system.

Formalizes religious beliefs.

Offers guidance in questions of life, death, nature, and spirit.

Encourages trade.

Selects clergy/ leadership.

Establishes rituals, symbols, shrines, and sacred places.

Provides goods and services.

Central location to conduct trade.

Collection of specialized building to carry out business.

Merchant records of buying and selling.

Enables people to develop specialized skills.

Encourages development of new technology.

Promotes a system of social classes.

Defines a person’s place in society.

Reflects the distribution of wealth.

Provides a way to keep accurate records.

Serves as a way to pass on knowledge.

Allows people to become experts.

Assigned different levels of importance to different groups.

Experts create tools to better perform tasks.

New methods make work easier.

Cities

Government

JobSpecialization

AdvancedTechnology

SocialClasses

Religion

Writing&

RecordKeeping