Indus River Valley-Southwest Asia.
Its located in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China.
Back when this civilization was alive, it consisted of jungels, forest, and deserts.
Used for transportation and trade, fertilized the land when it flooded. Provived irriagation.
Similiar to hinduism. Believed in life after death.
Worshiped animals, the gods names are unknown, the names died out with the civilization.
They wrote on pots, seals, and small tablets.
Clothes made of cotton and wool, colorful robes.
Skilled in pottery weaving and metalworking.
Weapons were axes spears and daggers.
Food was bread.
They raised pigs and buffalo.
Lothal was center for trading. it was very prone to natural disasters though.
The houses had no windows.
- Emporers and Kingdoms- Xia dynasty was the first dynasty in china and was along the yellow river. They were known for their black pottery.
- Shang dynasty is one of the most known dynasty in china.
- They created most objects out of bronze.
- They believed in human safrifice.
- if a king died more than one hundred slaves would die too.
- Western Zhou didnt rule all of china.
- Mesopotamia- It had large banks to keep in floods every year.
- The Babylonian empire did not last long because Hammorabi their leader died.
- The Neo Babylonian empire was established in 612 B.C.
- The empire was taken over by the roman empire
- Egyptian kingdom-Pharahos were buried in pyramids during 2700 B.C.
- The middle kingdom was egypts golden age.
- Pharohs were buried in hidden tombs instead of pryamids.
- The new kingdom was Egypts expansion period.
Mesopotamia- The land between two rivers. This is where the pyththag was created.
The two rivers were tigris and euphrates, big site of trade and commerece of baskets an pottery.
cities were on the banks of the rivers, irrigation was used for the crops and many animals grazing.
Flooding was a big problem, the rivers changed course. They believe in many gods. They bury people with items.
There religion was the first to be recorded. They thought the world was flat. They thought water covered the whole world.
Located in fertile cresenct.
Bordering countries are iran, jordan, kuwait, Saudi Arabia.
There is few trees, little rainfall, they traded for stone, wood, metal.
The first cities were around 4000-3500 B.C. Uruk, nipper were important cities
Nile River-The nile river is 4,120 miles long.
Located in Africa close to egypt.
Life was depedent on the river. People started to create communities around the Nile
People started trade routes around the Nile.
They lived on both sides of the nile and in the delta area.
Men wore skirts so did women.
There religion was based on nature.
The egyptions believed in life after death.
They put them in mummies.
Today 40 million people live in the nile river valley.
3 civilizations were formed. Each village had their own rituals and gods.
Yellow River Valley Culture-
-The Chinese believed in supernatural powers so when they needed something they asked the gods for it.
-Women are unable to own property
-All of the rituals are performed by men.
-The leader of the Yellow River Valley civilization was Shang King. He ruled the civilization from the city of Anyang.
-Aristocratic warlords were military leaders that ruled over the separate territories.
-Shang King was the overall king and could remove any of the military leaders as he wanted.
-The yellow river valley civilization didn't have a written language for a very long period of time.
--Family was one of the most important things in the chinese culture. The father was the head of the family and arranged all of the marriages, and chose his sons jobs.
Culture- The way a country or a group of people live or their beliefs. It also includes religion, and customs. The early civilizations settled near the nile river because they could grow crops and live.
Early River Valley Civilizations-Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus, China(yellow river).
Georgrahpy, Culture, Importance of River, Cities and States that emerged from the area.
Culture- The leader of the Yellow River Valley civilization was Shang King. He ruled the civilization from the city of Anyang.
-Aristocratic warlords were military leaders that ruled over the separate territories.
-Shang King was the overall king and could remove any of the military leaders as he w.
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The leader of the Yellow River Valley civilization was Shang King. He ruled the civilization from the city of Anyang. -Aristocratic warlords were military leaders that ruled over the separate territories. -Shang King was the overall king and could remove any of the military leaders as he wanted. he leader of the Yellow
-The Chinese believed in supernatural powers so when they needed something they asked the gods for it. -Women are unable to own property -All of the rituals are performed by men.
The decline of early river valley civilizations-They fell in 1950 BC. Akkadian Empire. The Babylonian Empire/Dynasty was taken over by the romans after their leader died. The ancient egypt empire was along the nile river valley. Invaded and conquered by the roman empire and other foreign powers. Early yellow river valley civilization xia dynasty was killed off by the shang dynasty and was killed out due to famine and disease. Indus valley civilization was killed off by floods that destroyed there irrigation systems which caused no crops to be grown so the civilization died off and the aryans took over.
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