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River Civilizations Flashcards

1
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Resistant to new ideas

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Indus

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2
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Indecipherable language

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Indus

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3
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Less-developed technology

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Indus

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4
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Isolated

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China

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5
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Running water

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Indus

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6
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Similarities in geography

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River valley silt

Floods irrigation

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7
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Flat invaded easily

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Mesopotamia

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8
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Monsoons

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Indus

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9
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Predictable floods

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Nile

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10
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Natural barrier desert

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Nile

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11
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Similarities in politics

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Monarch
I,C,E gov. Controlled economy
Monuments
Laws

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12
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Similarities in economics

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Agriculture
Technology bronze
I,N,M trade
Specialized workers

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13
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Fishing

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Indus

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14
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Sheckles

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Mesopotamia

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15
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Economy controlled by gov

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Egypt

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16
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Major Indus cities

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Harappa and mohenjo daro

17
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Aryans invaded and brought

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1500-500 BCE Hinduism military Aryan villages

18
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Indus technologies

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Square grid pattern dried bricks dams ox carts

19
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Stored grain by gov

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Indus

20
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Contributed to Indus fall

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Natural disasters immigration lack of control

21
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China’s stuff they did

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Rode horses pottery bronze iron with coal paper

22
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Ideographic a based on

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Oracles

23
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1st Chinese dynasty

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Shang

24
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How China was ruled during Shang

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Monarch had ultimate power peasants ruled by vassal retainers

25
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Characteristics of civilization

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Have reliance on sedentary ag. 
Food surplus
Specialized workers
Cities
Writing
More populous
26
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1st form of writing

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Cuneiform from Middle East

27
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4 initial centers of civilization

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Middle East Egypt India and China

28
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1at civilization

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Mesopotamia

29
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Mesopotamia was founded by the

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Sumerians

30
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1st monumental architecture

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Ziggurats

31
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Who established a justice system

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Hammurabi

32
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Mesopotamia did what

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Traded

33
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Agricultural advancements

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Irrigation canals
Stone hoes and wooden plows with ox 
Barley wheat and vegetables
Sheep and cattle
Date palms and fruit trees
34
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City layout

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Moat and brick wall w/soldiers
Mud houses
A king

35
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1st developed monotheistic religion

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Judaism

36
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Impacts of RV civilization

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Tools
Writing 
Math
Political forms
Farming
Trade 
Cities
37
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Similarities

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Writing 
Polytheistic religion 
Architecture 
E,M,C have advanced weapons 
M,N,I planned cities

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