Mesopotamia Egypt India China

Rivers
Tigris and Euphrates rivers Nile River Indus River Yellow River

Begin Year
(Estimate)
3800 BCE 3150BCE 2500BCE 1800BCE

city of Nekhen(lower) Harappa and The Shang

Sumerians and Babylonians city of Nekhen(upper) Mohenjo-Daro

Major Cities/
to the Assyrians, Persians, Great Pyramid of Giza
Empires
Romans, and even the
Ottomans
This civilization enjoyed a
scavengers from the much calmer water supply
eastern Arabian Desert and and extremely rich soil,
Since there was a large
the southern Nubian that the Indus Valley which allowed for the
surplus of these crops, many
Desert stumbled upon the civilization raised cattle, production of millet, wheat,
people were able to leave
Nile River while looking pigs, goats, and sheep. cabbage, and soybeans.
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farming to pursue other for reliable sources of Along with growing crops,
3 Facts that
professions. Some became water. The Nile provided Melting snow from the the Chinese hunted as well.
describe way of
merchants, artisans, or settlers with an abundance Himalaya Mountains the deadly floods caused by
life.
government officials. This of resources. Not only did provided the Indus Valley the Yellow River. The
tension over water rights the river provide with fresh water that was flooding washed away crops
was the subject of many freshwater to Egyptians, used to grow crops like and was so unpredictable
wars between the but it also attracted a wide wheat, peas, melons, and that people were unable to
Sumerians. variety of animal life that dates. build reliable homes and
the Egyptians learned to Indians were building experience the consistency
hunt, such as fish (catfish, very sophisticated cities needed to give birth to a

The Sumerians would make
some of the world's most
remarkable inventions, such
2 Major as the plow to help till the
Accomplishments soil or the sailboat to reach
faraway lands. They also
created a number system
based on the number 60 - a
system that is still used to
measure seconds and
minutes!
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perch) and poultry (duck,
heron, goose). Even more
important, however, was
how the Nile allowed the
Egyptians to farm and
cultivate their crops.
developed a 365-day
calendar to help track the
seasonal flooding.war
erupted between the two
cities
Also, ancient Egypt was
one of the first societies to
develop a written language;
Egyptians created a form of
communication-based on
pictures and symbols
known as hieroglyphics.
They also created a number
system based on the
number 60 - a system that
is still used to measure
seconds and minutes!
.Specifically, many homes
were equipped with a
unique water distribution
system that provided a
sort of "running water into
the home. Even more
amazing, the people of the
Indus Valley homes were
the world's earliest to have
flush toilets. In the Indus
Valley, the people had a
system for creating bricks
that were all the same size
society.
First, the Shang government
existed during the bronze
age, and they took advantage
by making a variety of
bronze weapons, tools, and
religious objects. Second,
Shang created a writing
system based on symbols
and pictures.
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