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Unit 1, Section 1B: River Valley Civilizations
Directions: Read Unit 1, Section 2 (pages 32-37) and answer the following questions on a
separate piece of paper:
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Define:
a.
Pharaoh
b.
Fertile Crescent
c.
City-States
d.
Ziggurats
e.
Cuneiform
f.
Empires
g.
Hammurabi’s code
h.
Middle Kingdom
i.
Dynasty
Why did people live near the Nile River in Egypt?
Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?
List the social classes of Egypt in order from highest to lowest.
Where is the Fertile Crescent? Why do you think it is called that?
Why did the region called Mesopotamia suffer from invasions and constant migrations?
What important contributions did Sumer make to the world
How was Chinese society isolated from the world? How did this affect their view of the
world?
What two forms of writing did the Chinese use? Which do you think was easier?
On a separate sheet of paper, draw pictures of showing each of the ways river water can
be used by people.
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Review Sheet: River Valley Civilizations
Key Terms:
vi. Important contributions:
a. Pharaoh: Egyptian ruler; considered both
wheeled vehicles, irrigation
a god and king
systems, Cuneiform, algebra,
b. Fertile Crescent: Crescent-shaped region
geometry
of good farmland between the Tigris and
d. Other Fertile Crescent Civilizations
Euphrates Rivers (Middle East)
i. Assyrians conquered the Fertile
c. City-states: political units of a city and
Crescent by 600 B.C.
surrounding land
ii. Persians (under Darius) formed
d. Ziggurat: pyramid like building of stepan empire by 500 B.C.
levels
iii. Babylon and Hammurabi
e. Cuneiform: wedge-shaped writing of
iv. Hittites produced iron (stronger
ancient Sumer
plows and weapons)
f. Empires: groups of states or territories
v. Lydians developed a system of
governed by one ruler
coined money
g. Middle Kingdom: belief that China
culture was the center of the Earth
IV.
Indus River Valley (2500 B.C.)
h. Dynasty: ruling family
a. Southern Asia (present day India)
b. Not much is known about them
Egypt (5,000 years ago);
c. Extensive cities (Harappa and Mohenjoa. Northeast Africa
Daro) exited
b. Developed along the Nile River
d. First to grow cotton and weave it into
i. Provided water for crops and
cloth
travel
e. Invaded by Aryans in 1500 B.C.
c. Polytheistic Religion
i. Amon-Re chief god (Sun God)
V.
China
ii. Osiris (God of the Nile)
a. Huang He (Yellow) and Yangtze River
iii. Believed in life after death;
Valleys in Eastern Asia
preserved dead body through
b. Isolated by mountains, deserts jungles
mummification
and the ocean
d. Pharaoh
c. Most lived in valleys or on the East Coast
i. Considered both a god and king
d. Believed their culture was the center of
ii. Built pyramids for his body and
the Earth (Middle Kingdom)
possessions
e. Shang established first dynasty (1650
e. Social classes
B.C.)
i. Pharaohpriestsnobles
f. Prayed to many gods; worshiped
(soldiers)merchants /
ancestors; believed in universal balance
craftsmenfarmersslaves
(Yin-Yang)
f. Contributions
g. Written Chinese language developed
i. Mummification
4,000 years ago
ii. Medicine
iii. Calendar
VI.
Bantu Migrations
iv. Hieroglyphics
a. Lived in West Africa
b. Moved south and east to find fertile land
Mesopotamia (5,000 years ago)
c. Spread knowledge of farming,
a. Fertile Crescent (Middle East)
ironworking and language across Africa
b. No natural barriers (like a desert)
i. Invasions & Migrations common
ii. Forming one nation was hard
c. Sumer
i. Formed city-states
ii. Polytheistic (nature gods); each
city-state had special god
iii. Hereditary rulers (passed down
through the family) were taxcollectors, law enforcer and gods’
chief servant
iv. Ruling family, officials and high
priests were upper class
v. Grew rich off of trade