1. Finish through Activity #6 in your booklet
Homework 8/31/2017
Study Notes minutes
Finish through Activity #6 in your booklet
Quiz Corrections due by Friday, September 5th

2. 6-1.3: Compare the river valley civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia),
the Nile (Egypt), the Indus (India), and the Huang He (China), including the evolution of written language, government, trade systems, architecture, and forms of social order.

3. “The Land Between the Rivers”
MESOPOTAMIA means land between the rivers
It is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

4. Mesopotamia
This area was very good for farming
Used river for drinking water, irrigation, cleaning and even bathing

5. Sumer Sumer was the earliest known civilization.
Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooded often, which made the farmers have to constantly worry about their crops

6. Sumer
Eventually the people of Sumer built dams and other ways of blocking the floods
Over time cities began to form and man needed leaders to organize the people and laws to protect them