Transcript River Valley Civilizations

River Valley
Civilizations
5 Characteristics of a Civilization
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Advanced CitiesSpecialized WorkersComplex InstitutionsRecord Keeping- Writing
Advanced TechnologyInventions
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Is the U.S. a Civilization?
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Advanced Cities-
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Specialized Workers-
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Complex Institutions-
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Record Keeping-
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Advanced Technology-
What would you do?
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You are constantly under attack from animals and enemies in
the open plains
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Flooding is random, so you never have a constant source of
water for your crops
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BUILD A WALL
BUILD IRRIGATION
You need more lumber to build homes, but your land does
not have those resources, however, you do have a lot of rock
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TRADE
Mesopotamia (3500 BC1700 BC)
Fertile
crescent
Land between Tigris and
Euphrates
Mesopotamia means
“Land between two rivers
First to
irrigate their
crops
FAMOUS FOR
BUILDING
ZIGGURATS
ziggurat
Polytheistic
Believed in 2000
different gods
People were
ruled by priests
Cuneiform
System of
writing using
symbols
CODE OF
HAMMURABI1ST LAW CODE
Egypt
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http://www.flocabulary.com/ancient-egypt/
Egypt (3200 BC-500 BC)
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On the banks of the Nile
 Longest
 Floods
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river in the world
the same time every year
Egyptians were ruled by the pharaoh
 Absolute
ruler
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Built the pyramids
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Invented hieroglyphics
 Early
form of writing
Pyramids
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Pyramids- All are tombs for the afterlife, Made during the Old
Kingdom
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Pyramids of Giza- made of limestone are the most famous
(three pyramids)
Egyptian Culture/Gods
 Gods:
Ra- Sun God
 Horus-the
god of light
 Isis-goddess
 2,000
Gods
of mother and wife
Book of the Dead/ Afterlife
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Good Afterlife
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Mummification-preserve the body for
afterlife (you are going to need it)
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Book of the Dead- scrolls of magic spells to
help the person go to the afterlife
King Tutankhamun
Inside the Tomb
Afterlife
Egyptian
Writing
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Hieroglyphicssacred writing,
picture writing
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Papyrus-reed
used to create
the first paper
objects
India
 Indus
River Valley
 First planned cities
 Protected by
mountains
 Masters of trade
 No one knows why
they collapsed
Planned cities of Indus
Valley
They
planned their cities
before building them
Helped them combat
seasonal flooding from
monsoons
THEY HAD PLUMBING!!
China
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Along the Huang He (Yellow River)
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Shang Dynasty
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power
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family that used military to keep
Created silk
Ancient Hebrews
 Kicked
out of Israel and
became slaves of Egypt
 Led
from slavery from Moses
Ten
Commandments
Basis
for Western laws
 Monotheism
Created
religion of Judaism
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