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River Valley Civilization - Coggle Diagram
River Valley Civilization
Tigris and Euphrates, Fertile Crescent (southwest Asia)
Mesopotamia: Sumerians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians (conquered by Greeks)
Cuneiform
Organized gov (bureaucracy)
Hammurabi's code, central government, algebra/geometry (Babylonians)
Systematized religion (Zoroastrianism), international gov (Persians)
Astronomy/astrology, advanced bureaucracy, architecture (Chaldeans)
Large-scale irrigation, math, and the wheel (Sumerians)
Iron smelting (Hittites)
Siege warfare, iron weapons, postal service, libraries, highways (Assyrians)
Smaller civilizations
Phoenicians: First alphabet, famous explorers/traders/colonizers in the Mediterranean
Lydians: First coins
Israel: First lasting monotheism
Nile River, Mediterranean and Red Seas (northeastern Africa
Egypt
Gods/rituals/governance connected (pharoah
Hieroglyphics
Engineering/building (pyramids)
Math
Few political disruptions due to geography
Medical advances, surgery
Agricultural, traded with Arabia, India, and parts of Africa
Indus and Ganges Rivers, Arabian Sea (southern Asia)
India
Urban culture/city planning
Metallurgy (gold, copper, bronze, tin)
Measurement (weight, time, length, mass)
Yellow River (east Asia
Writing
Commerce
Bureaucracy