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ANCIENT RIVER
CIVILIZATONS
ANCIENT EGYPT
Mesopotamia
ANCIENT INDIA
ANCIENT CHINA
Geograp
hy• Between two rivers
• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Northern lands
• Timbered Mountains
• Minerals
• Seasonal Rains
• Southern lands
• Marshes
• Uruk and Ur
• Trade
SUMERIAN
STRUCTURESGovernment1 City States
2 Priests build irrigation
2 War lords
2 Hereditary Rule
1 Ruling Duties2 Build walls
2 Irrigation
2 Lead army
2 Enforce Laws
2 Collect Taxes
Ruler
Officials
Scribes Merchants
Peasants
Slaves
Artisans
Priests
Lesser Priests
A complicated system
FIRST IN…
City States
Writing- Cuneiform
Polytheism
Afterlife Dust and Mud
Good and Bad
Demons and Monsters
Wheel
PAZUZZU SCORPION PEOPLE
Also First In
Algebra
System of 60
60 minutes
360°
Astronomy
Constelations
Babylon
• Law Code
• Public Works
• Unified Religion
Hittites
• Forged Iron
• Charriot
• Conquered from the North
Assyrians
• Iron
• Royal Law Codes
PERSIA
• Bureaucracy• Monetary Economy• Zoroaster
Phoenicians
• Tyrian Purple• Glass
• Colonies• Alphabet