1. Ancient River Valley Civilizations Notes

2. Vocabulary Hunter-gatherer Animism Paleolithic Agriculture
Look up these vocab words and write the definitions in your notebook. You can find these words in the glossary of your textbook.
Hunter-gatherer Animism
Paleolithic Agriculture
Neolithic Nomad

3. Dawn of History Old Stone Age or Paleolithic Age
“Lucy” 1959 by Leakey's in Tanzania
First people were hunters and gatherers
Animism – spirits in everything

5. One of the oldest debates in the study of human evolution centered around the question of which came first: big brains, or
walking upright?
Discuss how the discovery of "Lucy" provided evidence for one side of this debate.

6. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution :farming and domestication of animals
Lead to cities and civilizations
Civilizations grew along rivers

7. 4 Oldest River Valley Civilizations
Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia (Sumer and Babylon)
Ancient China
Ancient India

10. WHAT IS A CIVILIZATION???
CIVILIZATION- group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society.

11. EIGHT BASIC FEATURES OF A CIVILIZATION:
Writing Systems
(2) Infrastructure- public works such as bridges, roads etc.
(3) Government / Laws

12. *NOTES*
(4) Art / Architecture
5) Social Classes 12

13. (8) Development of Cities
*NOTES*
(6) Organized Religion
(7) Job Specialization
(8) Development of Cities 13

15. Features of Civilization
Organized Government
Religions
Job Specialization
Social Classes
Arts and Architecture
Infrastructure
Writing

16. Sumer and Babylon Fertile crescent – Tigris and Euphrates
City-states ruled by hierarchy
Built ziggurats for religion
Cuneiform – wedge writing
Sargon – 1st empire builder
Hammurabi – code, 1st written laws
Phoenicians create the alphabet

17. India Grew around Indus River Valley Polytheistic with mother goddess
Aryan society: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas
Vedas – story of early Indian civilizations
Priests, Warriors, everyone else

18. Egypt Along the Nile River with yearly floods
Pharaohs seen as gods, ruled in dynasties
Religion – polytheism, gods for nature
Afterlife – Osiris, mummification, tombs
Pyramids used as tombs
Hieroglyphics written on papyrus

19. China Grew around Huang He (Yellow) River Dynasties – Shang, Zhou
Religion – polytheism, ancestor worship
Mandate of Heaven – divine right to rule
Feudal state
Silk making, first books