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Early River Valley Civilizations (Mesopotamia (Geography (Rivers…

- - - - Religion
        
        People believed in many gods which means they were politheistic
      - Law code
        
        Hammurabi's code was the law code they had, in here people were separated in different classes and also Hammurabi tried to make it as fair as possible so people could follow it
      - Social clases
        
        People were divided in different social classes, the free man, another man, and a slave. Another law talks about taking out eyes or breaking bones of people. So if you take the eye of a slave, you should pay one half for the eye he lost. If you take out the eye of another man(middle class) you would have to pay with another eye. And if you take out the eye of a free man, you should have to pay with a gold mine.
      - Form of writting
        
        People in Mesopotamia developed cuneiform for record keeping.
  - - - Mesopotamia was around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates which let them have the possibility to grow crops and become a civilization. they also because of them the fertile crescent exists, which are the fertile places throughout Mesopotamia were people could farm
    - - Mesopotamia was located in the Arabian Peninsula.
    - - Mesopotamia had a humid hot climate and it was a semi-arid place, which means which means it has 10 inches of rain per year.
    - - People were surrounded by the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, which gave them a really good natural protection against invaders.
- - - - Form of government
        
        Egypt's government was a monarquy, because it was ruled by a single person, the pharaoh
      - Form of writting
        
        People used hieroglyphics to write their records, dates and describe things, like the gods, the rivers floods.
        
        Rosetta stone
        
        A stone thst esd found in Egypt which had written thingd so people could traduce hieroglyphics, cuneiform, greek
      - Class division
        
        People were divided in different classes, where the Pharaoh was the king who ruled, just that he was a god and not a king. In the middle class, the military, the guards, and the people with money stayed. And in the lower class, the peasants and slaves stayed.
      - Religion and beliefs
        
        People in Egypt were polytheistic, which means people believed in many gods.
        
        They also believed In the afterlife, so they built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs when they died. They also practiced mummification and buried their leaders and people who died with the important things the had, because they believed that people needed their things and possessions in the afterlife.
  - - - The Nile river flowing from south Africa to North Africa, where the Mediterranean Sea lies. Egypt also has a vast desert which helps them in getting less invations.
- - - - They also believed in many gods so they were polytheistic
    - - They had an unknown way of writing, it is unknown because people could never decipher that code out
  - - - The Rivers from The Indus valley were the Indus river and the Ganges.
    - - They had the Himalayas that protected them from invaders. The Himalayas s a large mountain range.
- - - - They had the Yellow river which gave them fertile land. a problem with this river was that it flooded so much that was capable of destroying cities.
    - - People in China id not just have the rivers as natural protection, but they also had the Himalayas, or really high mountains were people could not pass to invade China
  - - - China throughout its history has had many law codes, but its mostly known by its dynasties.
        
        Shawn dynasty
        
        During the Shawn dynasty, which was the creator of the Chinese writing system, because were the first ones to be able to have records kept.
        
        Xia Dynasty
        
        During the Xia dynasty, also known as the first dynasty, the leader was able to control or tame the yellow river's floods.
    - - People in China believed in many gods so they were polytheistic.
    - - Oracle bone script