PLEASE HELP! match the items. a. now that we have elite leaders, we have a new social class which is like:

b. surplus farming products was the real key to complex civilizations because they

c. power brokers become government when they grow so much so they must:

d. writing is created to:
specialization leads to a need for government because:
f. the first real city was:

match to:
1. a new food chain. elites, a very small part of society on top, people with specialized skills following, then farmers, peasants and finally slaves.

2. sumer, in southern Mesopotamia.

3. allowed for specialization which leads to many different jobs (like potters, soldiers, merchants), which leads to a need to oversee and govern those products and jobs.

4. potters need markets, soldiers needed government to hire them for services, merchants needed courts, town dwellers and farmers needed someone to oversee irrigation.

5. pay others to enforce their will and their laws. at this point we have our first true states and true governments

6. keep track of products and rules, eventually changing from numbers and symbols to words or images with bigger meaning until literature becomes a major part of a civilizations culture.