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River Valley Civilizations
“GRAPES”
Mesopotamia
G
Geography and
Agriculture
R
Religion
A
Achievements and
Inventions
Egypt
China
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Tigris and
Euphrates
Rivers
● No natural
barriers, easily
attacked
● Controlled water
with dams,
levees, and
irrigation
systems
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Nile River
Deserts =
protective barrier
● Silt made
farmland fertile
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Polytheistic
Theocracy
Gods controlled
people’s lives
● Ziggurat =
temple tower
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Polytheistic
Theocracy
Mummification
important for
soul to find body
in the afterlife
● Pyramids =
tombs for
pharaoh
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Cuneiform
Wheel
Plow
Irrigation
systems
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Hieroglyphics,
Rosetta Stone
Pyramids
Papyrus
Embalming
365­day
calendar
Yellow River and
Yangtze River
● Inner China
(warm, plains)
and Outer China
(cold, dry,
deserts,
mountains)
Ancestor
worship
● Three
Philosophies­­
Confucianism,
Daoism, and
Legalism
Great Wall
Silk, paper,
seismograph,
compass,
acupuncture,
gunpowder,
wheelbarrow...
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River Valley Civilizations
“GRAPES”
Mesopotamia
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P
Political System /
Government and
Leaders
E
Economy
S
Social Structure /
Social Classes
Egypt
China
City­states and
empires
Theocracy
Akkadians = first
empire
Assyrians =
warriors
Babylonians =
Hammurabi’s
Code of Laws
(first written law
system!)
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Theocracy
Dynasties
Pharaohs =
god­kings
● Three Kingdoms
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Central location
= center of trade
● Rivers were
freeways
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Use river and
seas to trade
● Pharaoh
collected taxes
from citizens
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Upper class:
govt. officials,
priests, scribes
● Middle: artisans,
traders,
craftspeople
● Lower:
peasants,
farmers
Pyramid shape
(smallest group
at top, largest at
bottom)
● Women had
many rights
● Family was the
center of
people’s lives
Feudalism =
king gave land to
nobles
● Dynasties
● “Mandate of
Heaven” ­ right
to rule given by
the gods
● Theocracy
Silk Road =
trade of goods
AND ideas
● began as a
mission to
create alliances!
Same type of
“pyramid” shape
as the others,
with small upper
class, medium­
sized middle
class, large
lower class
● Women had
fewer rights
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