“When the Boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks the closet for Chuck Norris.” Chuck Norris Fact:
Dec 26, 2015
“When the Boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks the closet for Chuck Norris.”
Chuck Norris Fact:
EARLY RIVER VALLEY
CIVILIZATIONS
A Nice Place to Start
WHAT IS A CIVILIZATION? Advanced Cities Specialized Workers Complex
Institutions Record Keeping Advanced
Technology
WHAT HAS CHANGED? People began to
colonize River Valley Civilizations
Rivers flooded and allowed for good farming Silt
When you grow your own food, you don’t need to travel
These early groups also domesticated animals
My co-workers are freaks…I
mean that dude has a tail, seriously?
THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS Mesopotami
a Egypt India
China Phoenecia Minoan
CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR WATER SOURCE
Mesopotamia Tigris & Euphrates
Egypt Nile
India Indus & Ganges
China Yangtze & Huang-He
Minoan Island in the Mediterranean
Phoenecian On the coast of the
Mediterranean
I’m so tired from all of
this running
That joke is so played,
river
WAIT…WHICH GOD WAS THAT?RELIGION IN EARLY CULTURES
PolytheisticReligions containing
many gods Each civilization
had its own unique religion, but they all maintained similar characteristics
Religion is extremely important in all cultures
NEW TECHNOLOGIES Irrigation Ditches City Walls Wheel Sail Plow Writing styles Bronze & Iron
NEW ARCHITECTURE IDEAS Arch Ramp Pyramid Column
GREAT CREATIONS OF THE ERVC ERA Pyramids
Egypt
Alphabet Phoenecia
Hammurabi’s Code Babylon
Birth of Hinduism India
Foundation for the Olympics Minoans
First Written Language Mesopotamia
First Religious Temple Mesopotamia
LET’S ALL SHARE SOMETHING
Cultural Diffusion begins with the rise and fall of empires
Definition: the sharing of culture through trade and interaction
These girls just saw Two Girls One Cup
MOMENT OF ZEN