Answer all the questions given under each caption:

Early Civilizations

1.What is meant by civilization?

2. Name the important early civilizations.

3. What supported the livelihood of a large number of people?

4. What happened when civilization began to take shape?

1. Civilization is the stage of human social betterment and organization which is regarded as developed or advanced.

By definition, civilization is “the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization”.

2. Egyptian civilization

a) Indus valley civilization

b) Mesopotamian civilization

c) Chinese civilization

3. a) In the early civilization periods, there was a surplus food production by the farmers in the fertile regions.

b) It supported the livelihood of a large number of people.

c) The people other than cultivators of crops engaged in artisanal activities such as making of bronze tools, ornaments, and pottery.

d) Priests, scribes, nobles, rulers, administrators and craft persons played important roles in the civilization.

4. a) Society progressed

b) huge buildings were made

c) architecture expanded

d) the art of writing developed

e) and science and technology advanced

f) Culture flourished.