Early River Civilizations

How did the first farmers cope with the challenges pose by the rivers?

• They built houses on stilts

• They moved away from the river valleys

• They went back to hunting and gathering

• They learned to control flooding and use irrigation systems.

What do we call the area that gave rise to the world's first civilizations

(Hint: it is a Greek Word meaning "between the rivers")

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Indus Valley

• Huan He Valley

The first civilization in Mesopotamia were the

• Babylonians
• Egyptians
• Iranians
• Sumerians

Name the civilization: 
- Nile River
- Hieroglyphics
- Pyramids

• Egypt
• Mesopotamia/
  Sumer
• India
• China

This picture shows the Middle Kingdom of Assyria, also known as the

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

What are the rivers that created the very first river valley civilization?

• Yellow - Red

• Tigris - Euphrates

• Nile and Indus

• Indus - Ganges

What change marked the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution? 

• beginning of hunting and gathering
• man learned to write
• man began farming
• man built towns and cities

Before the ​ (a)   Revolution, people were ​ (b)   .

• Neolithic
• hunter-gatherers
• Paleolithic
• farmers

Record Keeping,  Advanced Technology, Complex Institutions, Advanced Cities, and Specialized Workers are all

• Characteristics of Hunting and Gathering Societies
• Characteristics of Civilizations
• Characteristics of Nomadic Tribes

One reason Hammurabi's code is famous is that

• it was the first set of laws recorded in writing

• it was written in a sophisticated code that took years for historians to translate

• it was beautifully written on a single giant stone of polished basalt

• it was the first set of laws to rhyme to help people remember them