Civilization Project

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Research Ideas

Use this table to help you start to find some of the vocab and historical examples for your city.

	Mesopotamia	Egypt	Greece	Rome
Food Supply	agriculture, wheat, barley, irrigation	agriculture, wheat, barley, domesticated animals, cattle, pigs, sheep, irrigation, flood, Nile River	agriculture, wheat, barley, millet, lentils, beans, olives, fish, Aegean Sea	agriculture, wheat, barley, domesticated animals, cattle, pigs, sheep,
Government	monarchy, king, Xerxes, Hammurabi, Darius	monarchy, theocracy, dynasty, pharaoh, Ramses, Ptolemy, Akhenaten, Hapsetshut	monarchy, theocracy, democracy, king, Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles, Leonidas, Alexander the Great	monarchy, theocracy, republic, king, emperor, senate, triumvirate, Cincinnatus, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Marcus Aurelius
Boundaries	Tigris, Euphrates, Persian Gulf	Nile River, Upper and Lower Egypt, Cataract, Mediterranean Sea	Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Macedonia, Peloponnese, Persia	Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Gaul
Social Structure	king, scribe, craftsmen, farmer	pharoah, priest, scribe, slaves	slaves, helot, king, metics	Plebians, Patricians, emperor, senator, equestrian, tribune, consul, slave
Architecture	ziggurat, Hanging Gardens	Pyramid of Giza	Parthenon, Ionic, Doric, Corinthian	Colosseum, Forum, aqueducts, Pantheon
Art	Standard of Ur, Epic of Gilgamesh	Book of the Dead	Agamemnon Mask, Venus de Milo, classic sculpture	Trajan's column, fresco
Religion	polytheistic,	polytheistic, Ra, Amen, Set(h), Osiris,	polytheistic, Zeus, Athena, Hades, Poseidon	polytheistic, monotheistic, Jupiter, Minerva, Uranus, Neptune
Writing System	pictogram, logography, alphabetic cuneiform	pictogram, logography, hieroglyphics	alphabetic, Phoenician script, alpha, beta, gamma, omega	alphabetic, Etruscan, Latin script

Sample Civ

Please note I only put detail into the city of Crome. The other cities are lacking necessary description. Sample Map