The Civilizations of Ancient China and Mesopotamia‚ in general were all different but similar in some aspects‚ the political‚ economic and intellectual outlooks of these ancient peoples say a lot about their ways of life! ! The earliest Civilization is believed to have been developed in Mesopotamia “land between the rivers”‚ the rivers Tigris and Euphrates rise in the modern Turkey‚ while China has rivers too‚ the Yang zi River Valley and the Huang H‚ in ancient China rice became the
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development of early civilizations was greatly affected by geographic factors. Prompt: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of global history and geography‚ write an essay in which you analyze how the lives of the peoples of the ancient world were shaped by the geography of their region. PART A: SHORT ANSWER Document #1 Old Stone Age · 150‚000 to 10‚000 years ago · made weapons and tools of stone and wood · fished and hunted for food · sewed clothing of animal
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priesthood. 2) What was the advantage of the Chinese writing system? The writing system was universal. 3) What are trade‚ specialized work‚ government‚ record keeping‚ and advance technology characteristics of? A civilization 4) What ancient city was founded on the banks of the Euphrates River? Ur 5) What is the Mandate of Heaven? When a just ruler had divine approval by a god to rule 6) What do the pyramids of Egypt tell us about their society? They tell us that the people
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it is not a lone standing civilization‚ it is in fact a cradle of civilizations‚ where several civilizations have arisen in one region‚ the Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is an agricultural civilization being located on two of the most flourishing rivers near. The other half yield crops while the other half didn’t but these two separated regions were webbed by their established means of communicating‚ by writing and speaking languages that somehow connect. The civilization invented a system of writing which
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lots of wars that had happened. During my prelim days in WHISCVI class‚ it occurred to me that although many ancient civilizations established far apart and independent from each other‚ yet somehow we can trace evidences showing us that their cultures‚ beliefs‚ world views‚ traditions are somewhat similar to one another. I am very interested in discovering more details about when those ancient civilizations was formed‚ the people at that time did not have effective contact methods like us today‚ so
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developments‚ the most prominent being the first civilizations‚ Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. They had many similarities‚ such as characteristics of early civilizations and social structures‚ but they also had their differences. The most embossed differences included the divergent geography‚ prior belief‚ trade‚ relations with other civilizations‚ and politics. The earliest societies‚ such as Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt exhibiting indicator traits of civilization developed along the floodplains
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Chapter 2 1. How can the term CIVILIZATION be culturally biased? 2. How did Egyptʼs geography and climate influence religion and the outlook of the people? How did climatic events taking place from the fifth to the third millennium BCE affect the growth of Egypt? 3. Compare and contrast the development of commerce in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Why did their styles differ? 4. Account for the differing status of women in Mesopotamian and Egyptian society. The definition of civilization is a “certain kind
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2014 Geography The geography of Mesopotamia and North Africa (from now on referred to as Egypt) are very similar. Within those similarities are a few differences in the way the two civilizations dealt with and the land. Both civilizations lived near rivers that tended to flood and enrich the soil. Mesopotamia centered on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and dealt with the flooding by building large-scale irrigation and drainage ditches with the intervention of the state. Egypt‚ however‚ lived by
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ANCIENT EGYPT V.S. ANCIENT MESOPOTAIMIA In discussing the ancient world‚ many aspects in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt seem to be different and similar in different ways. Although both Egypt and Mesopotamia developed at the same time‚ there were many differences in political systems‚ religion‚ and social stability. They both established along the Nile River in the Fertile Crescent‚ but geography of their different regions had different results on agricultural prosperity‚ religious formation
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History Textbook Notes Chapter 1.1: The Beginnings of Civilization (10‚000-1150 B.C.) Spring 2014 Objective: What is the link between food-producing revolution of the Neolithic era and the emergence of civilization? (The shift from hunting and gathering to farming and herding because it changed the way humans organized society.) Neolithic Age: The New Stone Age (10‚000-3‚000 B.C.)‚ characterized by the development of agriculture and the use of stone tools. How do shifts in food production
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