What Makes A
Civilization?
What Makes A People
Civilized?
A Journey into the PERSIA
GEM’s of Mesopotamia
By Meredith Mazur
Dover-Sherborn Middle School
Question:
What are the PERSIA
GEM’s
Answer:
The nine parts of any
civilization. They are:
Politics
• The art or science of government
or governing, concerned with
internal (national) and external
(international) affairs.
Education
• The knowledge or skill
obtained or developed by a
learning process.
Religion
• Belief in and reverence for a
supernatural power or powers
regarded as creator and
governor of the universe.
• What people believe in- gods,
spirits…
Social
Structure
• The people in a society considered
as a system organized by a
characteristic pattern of
relationships.
• The jobs people do
• Who has more status in a society
Ideas, Inventions
and Innovations
• A new device, method, or process
developed from study and
experimentation
• The act of introducing something
new.
Arts,
Architecture and
Entertainment
• The production of sounds, colors,
forms, movements, or other elements
in a manner that affects the sense of
beauty.
• The art and science of designing and
erecting buildings.
• Something that amuses, pleases, or
diverts, especially a performance or
show
Geography
• The physical characteristics,
especially the surface features,
of an area.
• The land, animals, climate,
resources.
Economy
• The system of production and
distribution and consumption.
How people make money.
Military
• Of or relating to the study of the
principles of warfare;
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of
members of the armed forces
• Soldiers, defense of an area,
attacks/conquering other people.
Your Task:
• View the next images
carefully decide which of
the P. GEM’s you think they
best represent and why.
Image #1:
http://keidahl.terranhost.com/Fall/WOH1012/Images/CuneiformTablet.jpg
Image #2
http://members.tripod.com/jaydambrosio/BigzigguratUr.JPG
Image #3
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/life_largewindow.html
Image #4
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
Image #5
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
Image #6
http://www.chaldeansonline.net/photo/mesop2.html
Image #7
http://jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Meso/hammarabi2.gif
Image #8
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=3&viewmode=0&item=33.35.3
Image #9
http://jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Meso/warrior.jpg
Image #10
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/religion.html
Image #11
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/euphrates.htm
Bibliography
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Community College District. 11 October 2005.
Http://ftp.ccccd.edu/andrade/andrade/aw.html
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http://keidahl.terranhost.com/Fall/WOH1012/Images/CuneiformTablet.jpg
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http://www.galenfrysinger.com/index.htm
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http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewHigh.asp?dep=3&viewmode=0
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