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Where in the world am I?
ERVC Early River Valley Civilizations
Name the 4 Early
Civilizations we
learned about.
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus = India
China
Where am I? (region)
 My two rivers flood unpredictably
 I am also known as the fertile crescent
 Today I am called Iraq
Mesopotamia
Where am I? (City)
First wrote their language by pressing symbols
into wet clay with a pointed stick
Sargon of Akad unified it to make the first
empire
Sumer
Where am I? (Region)
 People think our civilization was peaceful because
they could not find weapons
 We dug irrigation ditches and had plumbing in our
cities
 Winds from the north and south cause monsoons
here?
Indus
Where am I? (Region)
We had over 10,000 of
these, but at least we were
unified?
China
Writing/ characters
Where am I?
 Forget I-pads, we prefer Cuneiform tablets
Mesopotamia
 The Sumerians of Sumer
Who am I (Person)
 Unified Upper and Lower Egypt?
Pharaoh / King Menes
Aka Narmer
Egypt
Where am I? (Geographic
Feature)
 Triangular marsh at the mouth of a river
 Very fertile
Delta
Egypt
Where am I? (Region)
 We write our symbols on turtle shells or bones.
China
Oracle bones
Where am I? (Region)
I’m standing in circle B
Upper Nile
Nile River in EGYPT
Where am I?
 We don’t eat Jersey Mikes here but for some
reason they still insist on calling us a “sub”
continent
India
Indus
India is part of Asia!!
Where am I?
We manufactured silk and
introduced coined money
China
What dynasty am I in?
 Established a series of rulers from the same
family
 First dynasty to leave a written language
 Elder men ruled the family
 Supreme God- Shang Di
Shang Dynasty
China
Which Dynasty? Location?
We are Polytheistic but our God gave us
a mandate to rule
Controlled China through Feudalism
Zhou Dynasty
China
Where am I?
Our King IS our God
Egypt
God-Kings
Location? River?
I am a river with cataracts. But I can’t
see why that would be a problem
Nile River
Egypt
Where am I?
I’m a barrier that separates India from China
Himalayan Mountains
India and China
Name the Desert?
I’m a desert that holds off invaders
from taking China
Gobi Desert
China
Where am I?
We invented surgery
Set bones in a splint
Could check heart rates
Egypt
Where am I?
We used the Wheel and the Sail
Mesopotamia
Sumer
I’m glued to number 2!!
Nile
Egypt
Name the two Rivers?
I’m getting bored at number 4!!
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Mesopotamia
I feel alive at number 5
Indus
Indus which is today- India
Getting my kicks at number 6
Ganges
Indus
I’ll be straight when I get to number 8
Yellow River
 Huáng Hé