River Civilizations

The word Mesopotamia means the land of two ____, Tigris and Euphrates.

• Lakes

• Rivers

• Mountains

• Civilization

Using advanced math, the _________ astronomers were able to follow the movements of the stars.

• Indus Valley

• Shang

• Mesoppotamian

• Egyptian

Adopted an Agricultural mode of life, depended heavily on irrigation.

• Mesopotamian

• Indus Valley

• Shang

• Eguptian

Began writing by drawing pictures on clay tablets, and is called cuneiform

• Shang

• Mesopotamian

• Egyption

• Indus Valley

Is a Bronze Age Revolution.

• Mesopotami

• Indus Valley

• Egyptian

• Shang

They followed the Grid System in which roads were cut.

• Shang

• Egyptian

• Mesopotamian

• Indus Valley

Invented and used many basic machines such as ramp and lever to aid in construction.

• Shang

• Sumerian

• Egyptian

• Mesopotamian

Used Pictographs and Hieroglyphics to write,

• Shang

• Egyptian

• Sumerian

• Mesopotamian

They practices ancestor workship, predicting the future by using oracle bones.

• Sumerian

• Indus Valley

• Mesopotamian

• Shang

They discovered how to make silk from the cocoons of sikworms.

• Shang

• Egyptian

• Indus Valley

• Mesopotamian