River Valley Civilizations
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River Valley
Civilizations
5 Characteristics of a Civilization
Advanced CitiesSpecialized WorkersComplex InstitutionsRecord Keeping- Writing
Advanced TechnologyInventions
1.
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?
You are constantly under attack from animals and enemies in
the open plains
Flooding is random, so you never have a constant source of
water for your crops
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
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
http://www.flocabulary.com/ancient-egypt/
Egypt (3200 BC-500 BC)
On the banks of the Nile
Longest
Floods
river in the world
the same time every year
Egyptians were ruled by the pharaoh
Absolute
ruler
Built the pyramids
Invented hieroglyphics
Early
form of writing
Pyramids
Pyramids- All are tombs for the afterlife, Made during the Old
Kingdom
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
Good Afterlife
Mummification-preserve the body for
afterlife (you are going to need it)
Book of the Dead- scrolls of magic spells to
help the person go to the afterlife
King Tutankhamun
Inside the Tomb
Afterlife
Egyptian
Writing
Hieroglyphicssacred writing,
picture writing
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
Along the Huang He (Yellow River)
Shang Dynasty
Ruling
power
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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