Five traits of

civilization!

Specialized workers:

Sumerians workers built

houses, made jewelry sewed

clothes or created poetry.

Advanced technology:

Sumer learned to use canals to irrigate

crops. They also created new tools

and used new materials. They began

to make tools of bronze (copper and

tin).

Advanced cities:

For example the city of Sumer had

temples where they prayed. They

needed a place to store and trade

their grain. Sumer also offered many

types of work.

Record keeping:

They used wooden sticks to count.

Later they invented the world’s first

system of writing.

Complex institutions:

Are a group of people who have a specific

purpose. For example their school was an

institution and their army. Sometimes

they used their army to conquer others.