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River Valley Civ.
Coverage and flashcards for the 3500 BC to 600 BC time period
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Time Period of the River Valley Civilizations. | 3500 BC to 600 BC |
| TINY MICE | Tigris Euphrates, Indus, Nile, and Yellow Rivers; Mesopotamia, India, China and Egypt |
| Mesopotamia (Tigris Euphrates River) | Wheel and one of the earliest forms of writing (Cuneiform). |
| Mesopotamia (Hammurabi) | One of the earliest written forms of law was created here, and governments tended to be smaller and short lived. |
| Egypt (Nile River) | Pyramids, mummified their dead, wrote on papyrus. |
| Egypt (Pharaohs) | Ruled over fairly long kingdoms; had trade and war with Mesopotamia. |
| India (South Asia near the Indus River) | Consisted of City-States; writing has not been translated. |
| India (1500 BC) | Aryan people took over with their proto-Hinduism |
| China (Yellow River) | Rice, invented silk, and practiced proto-Daoism |
| China (Zhou dynasty) | Replaced Shang dynasty about 1000 BC. Most isolated out of the four civilizations. |