Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Egypt

• A civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the ail river in the West Lands

• A civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River. It is located in Northern Africa

• Egypt in there early years

• Egypt Located in Africa

Architecture and the arts- pyramids, sculpture Science, math, and medicine- calendar, number system and geometry, herbal medicines

• Achievements of Ancient Egypt

• Achievements of Ancient Africa

• The great Pyramids

• The development of Egypt

Hieroglyphics

• An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

• enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing

• writing consisting of hieroglyphs

• sacred carvings

The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around.

• Burundi River

• Nile River

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Sudan River

Ancient Mesopotamia

• emerged as one of the early river valley civilizations through the use of river water for irrigating crops, which produced a sufficient surplus of food to support the first cities.

• Mesopotamia Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. Shown are Washukanni, Nineveh, Hatra, Assur, Nuzi, Palmyra, Mari, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Nippur, Isin, Lagash, Uruk, Charax Spasinu and Ur, from north to south. A modern satellite view of Mesopotamia.

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seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons

• Monsoons

• Winds

• hurricane

• Indian Ocean winds

centered around Huang He River; large population; isolated. the Shang and Zhou dynasty

• Tokugawa shogunate empire

• Asia

• Ancient China

• The great Chinese empire