Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
River Valley Civilizations “GRAPES” Mesopotamia G Geography and Agriculture R Religion A Achievements and Inventions Egypt China ● Tigris and Euphrates Rivers ● No natural barriers, easily attacked ● Controlled water with dams, levees, and irrigation systems ● ● Nile River Deserts = protective barrier ● Silt made farmland fertile ● ● ● ● Polytheistic Theocracy Gods controlled people’s lives ● Ziggurat = temple tower ● ● ● Polytheistic Theocracy Mummification important for soul to find body in the afterlife ● Pyramids = tombs for pharaoh ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Cuneiform Wheel Plow Irrigation systems ● ● ● ● 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... India River Valley Civilizations “GRAPES” Mesopotamia ● 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!) ● ● ● Theocracy Dynasties Pharaohs = godkings ● Three Kingdoms ● ● Central location = center of trade ● Rivers were freeways ● Use river and seas to trade ● Pharaoh collected taxes from citizens ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 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 India