Around the time of the agricultural revolution, civilizations grew. This was because it allowed people to settle permanently. Early civilizations as well as civilizations today have six similar characteristics. Three of these characteristics are government, religion, and writing. There are two types of government, dictatorship and democracy. A dictatorship is a government controlled by one person or a group of a few people. A democracy is when the people have a say in their government. …showed first 75 words of 334 total…

…showed last 75 words of 334 total…important to say, they would write a letter. You also could write down reminders for yourself, or something you discovered. Without writing we wouldn't be as civilized or as advanced as we are now. Government, religion, and writing are just three of the six characteristics that most civilizations have. Without one of these characteristics the civilization would probably fall apart. They go hand in hand, one characteristic leads to another. They are all very important.