Fertile Crescent and Nile River Valley About 5‚000 years ago in Sumer and Egypt (3000 BC) civilizations rose. Civilizations generally have rules and regulations‚ building and structures‚ agriculture‚ writing‚ and a religious structure. Before Sumer and Egypt rose up‚ people in the Paleolithic Age were nomadic‚ hunters and gatherers. They traveled in groups of 20-30 people. They had a spoken language‚ which was passed on and created culture. They had religious beliefs‚ which are believed to explain
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Indus valley Civilization – Bronze Age Ancient civilizations are the basis of the world as we know it today‚ built on the ruins of 10‚000 years of advanced cultures such as the Greek‚ Roman‚ Mesopotamia‚ Mayan‚ Indus‚ Egyptian‚ and others that we know primarily through archaeology and some written records. The Indus Valley Civilization‚ which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE‚ was the first major civilization in India. A sophisticated
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Specialized labor and written language was something that the Indus Valley civilization had a lot of and created. For specialized labor they would have different people or groups of people to have different jobs or professions in which they would create things for the river valley civilization. For example‚ “they had a person who made various tools. The tools they made were hammers‚ knives‚ needles‚ fish-hooks‚ axes‚ razors‚ and saws. But apart from these common tools‚ there were also stone querns
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Contrasts Between Nomadic and River Civilizations When analyzing the problems of former civilizations‚ subsequent societies are able learn from errors and triumphs of the past. The nomads and the pastoralists faced trials and difficulties; however‚ the solutions were very different. These two societies had contrasting ideas when it came gender roles‚ economic development‚ and political structure systems. Nomadic and Urban societies differed in the roles between women and men. Nomads recognized
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All of the Early River Civilizations have contributed to the modern age in many ways. These all three empires(Indus‚ Egypt and Sumer) are similar in development and their unique ways of life. Moreover‚ they are also on the contrary and distinct in their own manner. The vast similarity of these Civilizations is their development of technology to make tasks easier. The advances in engineering in ancient times. These advances in the history of technology stimulated societies to adopt new ways
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Emanuel Mordechaev S/S Essay #2‚ Mr.Wainer C-band‚ 09/13/12 Differences in the political systems of Mesopotamia and Nile River Valley The ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley varied in most aspects of society. Everything from the temples built in Mesopotamia to the technologically advanced pyramids in ancient Egypt that still stand today as historical landmarks is linked to the sovereigns that ruled these civilizations. Egyptian kings (better known as pharaohs)
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Rivers played a big role in why civilizations were able to grow so large because it could provide people with a way of transportation‚ water to drink‚ and irrigate their crops. The Chinese first started to settle the land about 1.7 billion years ago near the Yun Nan Province in the south near the Yangtze River. Yun Nan has a warm climate to grow crops‚ and the river gave them water to drink and gave them a way to irrigate their crops. Fish also were an abundant food supply. As they prospered‚
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the Cuyahoga River Valley Organization Edie Druktenis March 28‚ 2013 This case focuses on the development of the Cuyahoga River Valley Organization (CRVO) which is charged with caring out the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative (CVI). The initiation of this organization began with an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2000. The article discussed the history‚ natural beauty‚ and industry in the Cuyahoga Valley located in northeastern Ohio. The valley is rich in natural
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Though Egypt and Mesopotamia were both river valleys they have a lot of differences‚ but some similarities. Such as they have very different social and political views while the two river valleys had a quite a bit of similarities when it came to religion. The difference between the two valleys social views were that in Egypt women were treated with respect and as equals where in Mesopotamia women were treated like property and didn’t have the same privileges as men. Both Egypt and Mesopotamia
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