Political: Economical: Geography: Advances Socially: Ancient Who controls what? What type of Where is it? Religious, intellectual, River What type of economy? Is land artistic Valleys government is How do people mountainous? there? Anything to make a living? Desert? do with laws or war. Ocean? Traditional -Fertile -cuneiform Sumer, Babylon, economy of Crescent -ziggurats Assyria, and Persia trade and -Tigris and -Hanging Gardens Ancient farming Euphrates -Tower of Babel Mesopotamia Code of Hammurabi Rivers -wheel, plow, sailboat, Traded with - Few natural number system based Egypt and Indus barriers on 60 Valley --- later -present day: -Polytheism with China on Iraq the Silk Road -capital: UR Pharaohs (priest Traditional -Nile River (Blue -hieroglyphics kings) economy based Nile and White -pyramids --- Great on trade and Nile Rivers) Sphinx Most famous farming -Deserts – -mummies -> afterlife Ancient Egypt pharaoh: King Tut natural barriers -papyrus Traded with -mountains, -polytheism Divided into the Nubia rivers, Lower and Upper cataracts -fertile soil Little is known of Traditional -modern day: -brick walls for protection against flooding ancient India economy based Pakistan -artifacts because they can’t on trade and -Indus River -invented 0 and its symbol, Ancient translate their farming which floods Algebra, number system 1-9, iron plow, cow is sacred India writing -monsoons -sanskitt – written language - mts., deserts, -polytheism dynasty plateau, etc -Hinduism and Buddhism Dynasties Traditional -Yellow River -achievements: astronomy, bronze economy based (Huang work, making silk, Overthrow bad on trade and created developed rulers farming symbolized a complex system of “centrality” Ancient as writing China Invented silk China is the -Great Wall of China center of the – -Chinese language Terrace farming world pictographs/ideographs -mts, deserts -- -Chinese Thinkers natural barriers -polytheism
Ancient River Valleys Political: Who controls what? What type of government is there? Anything to do with laws or war. Economical: What type of economy? How do people make a living? Geography: Where is it? Is land mountainous? Desert? Ocean? Advances Socially: Religious, intellectual, artistic Ancient Mesopotamia Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia Code of Hammurabi Traditional economy of trade and farming Traded with Egypt and Indus Valley --- later with China on the Silk Road -Fertile Crescent -Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - Few natural barriers -present day: Iraq -capital: UR -cuneiform -ziggurats -Hanging Gardens -Tower of Babel -wheel, plow, sailboat, number system based on 60 -Polytheism Ancient Egypt Pharaohs (priest kings) Most famous pharaoh: King Tut Divided into the Lower and Upper Traditional economy based on trade and farming Traded with Nubia -Nile River (Blue Nile and White Nile Rivers) -Deserts – natural barriers -mountains, rivers, cataracts -fertile soil -hieroglyphics -pyramids --- Great Sphinx -mummies -> afterlife -papyrus -polytheism Ancient India Little is known of ancient India because they can’t translate their writing dynasty Traditional economy based on trade and farming -modern day: Pakistan -Indus River which floods -monsoons - mts., deserts, plateau, etc -brick walls for protection against flooding -artifacts -invented 0 and its symbol, Algebra, number system 1-9, iron plow, cow is sacred -sanskitt – written language -polytheism -Hinduism and Buddhism Ancient China Dynasties Overthrow bad rulers Traditional economy based on trade and farming Invented silk Terrace farming -Yellow River (Huang symbolized “centrality” as China is the center of the world -mts, deserts -- natural barriers -achievements: astronomy, bronze work, making silk, created developed a complex system of writing -Great Wall of China -Chinese language – pictographs/ideographs -Chinese Thinkers -polytheism
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