RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

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• RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

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FOUR VALLEYS OF CIVILIZATIONS

• NILE RIVER VALLEY
• INDUS RIVER VALLEY
• HUANG HE VALLEY
• FERTILE CRESENT

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FERTILE CRESENT

• MESOPOTAMIA
• LOCATED BETWEEN TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS
• 20 TO 150 MILES WIDE

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SUMER

• FIRST CIVILIZATION
• CITY-STATE GOVT
• TEMPLES ZIGGURATES

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INVENTIONS

• WHEEL
• SEWER, ARCH
• NUMBER SYSTEM
• ALGEBRA
• CUNEIFORM

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CuneiformOldest written language
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BABYLONIANS

• FIRST WRITTEN LAWS
• HAMMURABIS CODE
• Tower of Babylon

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• HITTITES (IRON)
• ASSYRIANS (WARLIKE) CAPITAL NINEVEH
• CHALDEANS (NEBUCHADNEZZAR)
• PERSIANS
• PHOENICIANS (SEA TRADERS,

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HEBREWS

• ABRAHAM, MOSES
• 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL
• KINGS SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMAN

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• CANNAN FACED DROUGHT-FAMINE-STARVATION
• ABRAHAMS COVENANT WITH GOD
• A NATION OUT OF ONE
• FATHER OF ALL THREE MAJOR RELIGIONS
• ISSAC AND ISHAMEL
• JUDISM AND ISLAM

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• FLEE TO EGYPT AND ARE ENSLAVED
• LED BY MOSES BACK TO CANNAN
• 40 YEARS LOST
• WHEN THEY RETURN WAR WITH PHILISTINES OVER CANNAN
  (ISRAEL)

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