River Valley Civilizations

Where did the first civilizations rise?

• Along river valleys

• Near mountains

• Along the ocean front

• Near Seas

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers. Name the two rivers.

• Nile and Amazon

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Snake and Colorado

• Pol and Yangtze

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is known as

• irrigation

• architecture

• fishing

• cuneiform

Hunter Gatherers were nomadic. What statement is correct?

• they found one place to live and settled there

• they planted crops on farms and raised animal

• they lived in town and traded with other peoples

• they wandered about following sources of food and water

Specialization of labor means that people had different

• jobs

• religion

• homes

• governments

What river valley would have been here?

• China
• Mesopotamia
• Indus
• Egypt

What was the first river valley to appear?

• China
• Egypt
• Indus
• Mesopotamia

Which two cities were discovered in the Indus River Valley?

• Tigris and Euphrates
  
• Sumer and Babylonia
• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
• Cairo and Bahgdad

Name the civilization: 
- Huang He (Yellow) River
- Calligraphy writing
- Paper and Silk

• Egypt
• Mesopotamia/
  Sumer
• India
• China

Using the map, what river valley is shaded in yellow?

• Egypt
• Mesopotamia/
  Sumer
• India
• China