ANCIENT RIVER CIVILIZATONS

ANCIENT EGYPT

Mesopotamia

ANCIENT INDIA

ANCIENT CHINA

INTRO

Geography

• Between two rivers• Tigris• Euphrates

• Northern lands• Timbered Mountains• Minerals• Seasonal Rains

• Southern lands• Marshes• Uruk and Ur• Trade

EROSION

SUMERIAN STRUCTURESGovernment

1 City States2 Priests build irrigation2 War lords 2 Hereditary Rule

1 Ruling Duties2 Build walls2 Irrigation2 Lead army2 Enforce Laws2 Collect Taxes

Ruler

Officials

Scribes Merchants

PeasantsSlaves

Artisans

Priests

Lesser Priests

A complicated system

FIRST IN…City StatesWriting- CuneiformPolytheismAfterlife

Dust and Mud

Good and BadDemons and MonstersWheel

PAZUZZU SCORPION PEOPLE

Also First In

AlgebraSystem of 6060 minutes360°AstronomyConstelations

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