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ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY
CIVILIZATION
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River Valley Civilizations
During the New Stone Age, permanent
settlements appeared in river valleys and
around the Fertile Crescent.
River Valleys provided water and rich soil
for crops as well as protection from
invasion.
Identify the location of the earliest river
valley civilizations (about 3500 to 500
B.C. [B.C.E.]), using the following
information as a guide:
M______________ civilization: Tigris and
Euphrates River Valleys (Southwest Asia)
E_____________ civilization: Nile River
Valley and Nile Delta (Africa)
I_______________ civilization: Indus
River Valley (South Asia)
C civilization: Huang He Valley (East Asia)
The 1st River Valley Civilizations Cont..
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River valleys offered rich soil and irrigation water for agriculture, and they
tended to be in locations easily protected from invasion by nomadic
peoples.
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Division of l____________
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Complex s_______ institutions (e.g., for religion, government)
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Advanced t__________
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C_________
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W_______ l___________
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What is the final step in the establishment of a civilization? WRITTEN
LANGUAGE
What characteristics do the four ancient river valley civilizations have in
common?
Early Written Language
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1. Pictographs
2. Sumerian C__________3. Egyptian- H__________(Rosetta Stone)
4. Phoenician- A__________-
River Valley Civilizations Time Line of
Events
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• Mesopotamia: Sumerians, Akkadians,
Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Chaldeans
• Egypt: Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms; shifts
in power; causes for different kingdoms
• Indus River: Establishment, height, cause for
collapse
• Huang He (Yellow River): Mythic beginnings,
Shang, Zhou
River Valley Civilizations influenced
Social, Political, and Economic Progress
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The development of social patterns of ancient river valley
civilizations:
• Hereditary rulers: Dynasties of kings, pharaohs
• Rigid class system where slavery was accepted
Development of political patterns of ancient river valley
civilizations, using the following information as a guide:
World’s first states (i.e., city-states, kingdoms, empires)
Centralized government, often based on religious
authority
Written law codes (e.g., T____ C_________, Code of
H__________)
Land of Canaan
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River Valleys offered rich soil and
irrigation water for agriculture, and they
tended to be in locations easily protected
from invasion by nomadic peoples.
Identify other early civilizations (about
2000 to 500 B.C. [B.C.E.]), using the
following information as a guide:
H____________ settled between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River
Valley (part of Fertile Crescent in
Southwest Asia).
P______________ settled along the
Mediterranean coast (part of Fertile
Crescent in Southwest Asia).
N______________ was located on the
upper (southern) Nile River (Africa).
The Ancient Hebrews
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Location-South Western
Fertile Crescent
C_________ (later
Israel)
Significance-Worlds 1st
M__________ Religion:
Judaism
Belief in Y_______
(Hebrew name for God)
Believed to be “God’s
C________ People”
Founder: A______ (later
A__________)
Abraham
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Where did Abraham
and his family
originally come from?
Where did they go?
The Torah
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The first ___ books
of the Hebrew
Bible.
The most sacred
text in the Jewish
religious tradition.
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God’s covenant
Migration to Egypt
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According to the Bible,
many Hebrews had
gone down into Egypt
because there was a
famine in Canaan and
they had no food.
Instead of returning
home to Canaan, they
stayed in Egypt
Moses
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After more than 400 years of slavery, in
the early 1200's B.C., Moses was born.
Although an Israelite, Moses was raised in
the pharaoh's household.
This pharaoh was probably Ramses II.
According to the Torah,
God asked Moses to ask the Pharaoh
to let the Israelites leave Egypt. Pharaoh
refused!
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God gave Moses miraculous powers,
including the ability to cause outbreaks of
disease and destruction called plagues.
Exodus
Each time a plague happened,
Pharoah promised to let the Israelites
go, but each time he changed his
mind.
Finally, according to the Torah, a
plague came in which the first-born
child of all the Egyptians died - even
Pharoah's son. After this terrible
plague, Pharoah finally let the
Israelites leave Egypt.
Phoenicians
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Achievement
#1:Extraordinary
shipbuilders and sailors
Government:City-States
Sidon and Tyre made
red-purple dye (60,000
snails made one 1 lb.
brick)
 Byblos traded papyrus.
 Greatest colony was
Carthage (Tyre)
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Phoenician Trade Routes
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Round-hulled ships
Goods:
Murex (purple dye)
Glass
Lebanon cedar
Phoenician Alphabet
Egyptian River Valley Civilization