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River Valleys Review Sheet
Format
 Multiple-Choice
 Documents
Key Terms/Main Ideas
** Remember do not just look up the definition… understand how each can be applied, as well as the
significance, impact, and connections each have had on our unit of study and what we’ve learned in the
past**
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Adapt
Characteristics of
Civilization
Cultural Diffusion
Hierarchy
Cataracts (in relation
to rivers)
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers
Sumerians
Phoenicians
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Assyrians
Persians
Cuneiform
Hammurabi’s Code
Nile River
Hieroglyphics
Pharaoh
Theocracy
Monsoons
Indus River Valley
Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro
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Urban Planning
Pluming
Caste System
Huang- He (Yellow
River)
“China’s Sorrow”
Ethnocentrism
Middle Kingdom
Mandate of Heaven
Dynastic cycle
Ancestor worship
Essential Questions
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Why did early man settle along river valleys?/ How do river valleys impact early civilizations?
How does geography affect culture in the Fertile Crescent?
How did the Egyptians organize their lives around the Nile River?
What were the characteristics of the Indus River Valley civilizations?
How did the geography of China impact its early development as a civilization?