“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