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