River Valley Civilizations
What is special about the rivers of the ancient river valley civilizations?
They flooded annually.
Egyptian civilization formed on this river.
The Nile River.
The Indus Valley Civilization formed on this river.
The Indus River
Chinese civilization formed on these river.
The Yellow River and the Yangtze River.
No names are know from this civilization.
Indus Valley
The rivers left behind
fertile soil.
What building material did ancient Egyptians mostly use?
Stone
What building material did the Indus Valley inhabitants use.
Bricks.
What building material did the ancient Chinese use?
Wood.
Oldest continuous civilization.
China
Trade was important to which river valley civilization?
All of them.
What archeological find allowed historians to decipher hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone.
Why do we know so little about the Indus Valley civilization.
We have yet to decipher their writing.
What is special about Ancient Chinese writing?
It is the ancestor of modern Chinese language. It is still in use today.
Located in Africa.
Egypt
What makes a civilization? List the 3 criteria.
Surplus of food, division of labor, and cities.
This ruler of ancient Egypt was the first to unite upper and lower Egypt.
Narmer.
What happened to the Indus river valley civilization?
We do not know truly what happened to them.
What were oracle bones used for?
Questions were written on oracle bones and then the bones were heated by fire until they cracked. The cracks were interpreted for answers to the questions.
Geographically isolated due to the larger mountains and deserts.
China.
Oldest civilization.
Sumer.
Name one invention of the Egyptians.
The sail, makeup, mummification...
What is special about Indus Valley cities?
They were planned out and had drainage systems.
What is special about ancient Chinese cities?
They had huge walls: some as tall as 30 feet and twice that in width.
Modern day Pakistan.
Indus Valley Civilization.