Ancient civilizations

• Civilizations is the Definition of Civilization
• West asia are cities of Sumer
• South asia are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
• East asia is Shang Dynasty
• Government is a need of organized institution with leaders
• Technology are inventions addressing the need of the people
• Culture are about knowledge, customs, beliefs, and traditions
• Belief system is the belief in a higher being or creator
• Writing system is having the ability to read and write
• Economic specialization is engaging the means of livelihood
• Social stratification is the distribution of livelihood
• Fertile crescent is an ancient region in asia with rich and fertile soil
• Mesos is between
• Potamos is river
• The "between two rivers" are Tigris and Euphrates
• Natural barriers are barriers especially the rivers made it suitable for building communities
• Floods answered throught irrigations because prone to floods and destroyed houses, crops and claimed lives
• Cuneiform is the qriting system of the sumerians. This was invented to keep track or records of excess agricultural products
• Scribes are the experts in writing the cuneiform
• Wheel have high standard of living and were said to be the first one to use the wheel
• Fall of sumeria happened because a lack of a leader who could unite the city-states and the conquering of military forces of Kish led by Sargon |
• Indus river is the center of civilization in the region
• Natural barriers is khyber pass - passageway located at Hindu Kush
• Indian Ocean got promoted trade in ancient asians
• Geographical condition of china have natural barriers to separate china from other parts of asia
• Yellow river flows acroos northbchina from the tibetan plateau and outwards the yellow sea
• Chang jiang is the third largest river in the world
• Shang society is a structure of society that was a pyramid. Monarchy,aristocrats and laborers
• System of writing with shang had 3000 symbols
• Bronze was first used for weapons and eventually was used for rituals