Download Comparing the River Civilizations

Comparing the River Civilizations-Name____________________Period_____
MesopotamiaSouthwest Asia
EgyptNortheast Africa
Indus (India-Pak.)South Asia
China-
The Rivers
Tigris and
Euphrates
Nile
Indus
Huang He (Yellow)
The Culture
Sumerian
Egyptian
Harappan
Shang/Zhou
Key Dates
Sumerians
Assyrians
Persians
3200 BC Old Kingdom
2700 BC Middle Kingdom
1790 BC New Kingdom
Indus
Aryans
1800BC Shang begins
1027 BC Zhou end Shang
256 BC Fall of Zhou
Important Cities
Ur-1st city
Babylon
Thebes
Memphis-capitals
Giza, Cairo
Harappa
Mohenjo-Daro
Anyang –Shang capital
Zhengzhou-Zhou capital
Luoyang
Government
Type
City-states-decentralized
Individual kings
Empires - later
Strong Centralized Nation-Pharaoh
On top.
But not city states-Not
Pharaoh- not sure
Rajahs
Shang and Zhou practices
Feudalism and clans
Strong Local
Religion
Polytheistic
Negative view of gods and
afterlife
Polytheistic
Positive view of gods and afterlife
Pharaoh is a god
Isis, Osiris, Amon-Re
Animism
Polytheistic
Chief goddess
Priests-not sure
Brahman
Polytheistic
Ancestor Veneration-dead
Ancestors helped with gods
Shang-Di
Writing System
Cuneiform
Pictographic-1st writing
Hieroglyphic
Pictographic
Pictographic
Not translated
Sanskrit
Chinese script
Pictographic
Basis for all Chinese script
10,000
Social Classes
City-state King
Priests
Nobles
Merchants, Scribes, Artisans
Peasant farmers
Slaves
Caste System
Priests
Possibly had less class focus
Many Farmers!!!
Royal family
Nobles
Priest-Scribes
Shi Scholars (Zhou)
Peasant Farmers
Slaves
Job
Specialization
City-state King
Priests
Nobles
Merchants, Scribes, Artisans
Peasant farmers
Slaves
Not sure!!!
Priests
Possibly had less class focus
Many Farmers!!!
Many Merchants
Royal family
Nobles
Priest-Scribes
Shi Scholars (Zhou)
Peasant Farmers
Slaves
Public Works
Irrigation
Ziggurat Temples (each city)
Granaries
Pharaoh
Vizier
Priests
Nobles
Merchants, Scribes, Artisans
Peasant farmers
Slaves
Pharaoh
Vizier
Priests
Nobles
Merchants, Scribes, Artisans
Peasant farmers
Slaves
Irrigation
Pyramids
Granaries
Irrigation
Levees/Dikes
Granaries
TechnologyArtArchitecture
Ziggurat Temples (each city)
Wheel
Sail
Writing
Math-Algebra-Geometry
Calendars
Irrigation
Granaries
Pre-Planned Cities
Plumbing !!!
Cotton weaving!!!!
Writing
Math-Algebra-Geometry
Calendars
Indoor Plumbing
Invasion –
Trade
Sumer,Akkad. Babylon, Assyria,
Persia
Trade with Indus and Egypt
Trade with Sumer and central
Asia
Invaded? By Aryans
War with powerful families
Within China
Trade within China-Little outside
trade
Legacy
1st civilization on earth-All others
copy their ideas
Hammurabi's Code
Civilization disappears for
2000 years. Influence later
Aryan invaders with cow
veneration
Hinduism
Creates common Chinese
Culture-standardizes writing
And language-begins 2000
Year dynastic cycle in China
Books, Silk
The Place
Pyramids
Writing
Math-Algebra-Geometry
Calendars
Trade and fight with Nubia,
Mesopotamia,
Mediterranean
1st civilization in Africa
Same culture for 3000 years
Pyramids
Mummification
Rosetta Stone
East Asia
Writing
Math-Algebra-Geometry
Calendars
Bronze
Porcelain