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The complex culture with six Characteristics specialization religion writing city art government

The development of skills in a specific kind of work

Skilled workers who make goods by hand

Economic changes in order to cultivate more land into produce crops people build elaborate irrigation systems resulting in a food sir plus causing individuals to learn skills to form jobs and other trades. Also social changes the economy changing also affects the social structure of village life as other special groups of workers formed social classes with varying wealth, power, and influence began to emerge a system of social classes would become more clearly defined as cities grew

Cities were more than a group of people living together they were the birthplaces of the first civilizations and where the center of trade for a larger area

Goverment; long-lasting pattern of organization in the community

Professional record keepers

Cuneiform was a system of writing invented by the Sumerians

The pottery wheel to shape drugs plates and bowls and they started to use a lot of bronze

The period called the Bronze Age refers to the time when people begin using bronze rather than copper and stone to fashion tools and weapons the Bronze Age started and some around 3000 BC, but the date buried in other parts of Asia and Europe

Pyramid shaped monument used as a temple and were made to honor the gods

The way of trading goods and services without money

Social classes and to emerge in religion became more organized due to the economy changing in creating more jobs

It allowed for people to become artisans and follow different trades to make goods since there is a surplus of food

Government, art, writing, religion, city, specialization

Cuneiform allowed the people to communicate in other ways and also allows historians to know what life was like back then