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GOVERNMENT
Pharaohs were the head of state, and gods were divine representatives.
GEOGRAPY
the geography of ancient Egypt was very desolate there with sandy desserts and small oasis scattered around the desserts. It had the worlds longest river running through its center and once a year it would flood leaving behind fertile soil to grow crops they built great pyramids to honor there rulers and there dead  they fished out of there river and was a large resource they quarried many rocks and minerals and grew crops after the river would flood they were the first to invent the plow to cultivate crops and used the river for irrigation
WRITING
the writing they used was hieroglyphics meaning ''priest carvings'' or ''sacred writings'' then hierarchic script came to being later on
RELIGION
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society. It centered on the Egyptians' interaction with many deities who were believed to be present in, and in control of, the forces and elements of nature.
ART
Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of ancient Egypt in the lower Nile Valley from about 3000 BC to 30 AD. Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylized and symbolic.

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Mesopotamia

Geographic: Southern Mesopotamia is made up of marshy areas and wide, flat, barren plains. Cities developed along the rivers which flow through the region. Early settlers had to irrigate the land along the banks of the rivers in order for their crops to grow. Northern Mesopotamia is made up of hills and plains. The land is quite fertile due to seasonal rains, and the rivers and streams flowing from the mountains. Early settlers farmed the land and used timber, metals and stone from the mountains nearby.

Mesopotamian Languages. The principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia were Sumerian, Akkadian Amorite, and - later - Aramaic. writing"cuneiform" script, deciphered by Henry Rawlinson and other scholars in the 1850s. Government: Mesopotamia had a king for each city rather than just one ruler for the entire civilization for example the city of Babylon was ruled by king hammurabi Religion The cultures of Mesopotamia had a polytheistic belief system, which means that the people believed in multiple gods instead of just one. They also believed in demons created by the gods, which could be good or evil. The people of Mesopotamia worshiped these other worldly beings to keep the beings happy, because if one of these powerful beings was angered then the people of Mesopotamia would, in some way, be punished for that unhappiness. They believed that when something bad happened, whether a natural disaster or not, it was because the correlating god was angry at them, so they did their best to keep the gods happy.

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Geography: Located in Mesopotamia, In the Fertile Crescent.
Writing: Sumerian Cuneiform, It is the earliest writing system can be traced back to about 8000 BC
Religion: Practices a Polytheistic religion with anthropomorphic deities representing cosmic and terrestrial forces in their world.
Art: Fine works in Sumerian times included sculptures in marble, diorite, hammered gold, and lapis lazuliahve. Clay was one of the most abundant materials and resulted in smooth perfection and idealized features among their religious based masterpieces.
Government: Combination of monarchy and democracy. The

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Geographic Physical Feature: In Asia, Upper basin is mountain range and lower plains by the Indus River.
Religion: Forms of early Hinduism.
Government: Political and religion powers were closely linked.
Writing: All  attempts to decipher has failed.  Examples of the writing systems have been found in pottery, amulets,carved stamps seals, and even in weights and copper tablets.
Art:  Created small statues and other pottery. Small clay figures.

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Patty, Cole, Kate, & Megan
1. Mountainous over two thirds of the country. It stretches across China for more than 2900 miles. It carries rich yellow silt all the way from Mongolia to the Pacific They must rely on their own food sources as travel and trade is difficult due to mountain ranges and river valleys. They are one of the world's fertilizers producers.Coal, iron ore, tin, lead, copper, gold, salt, clay, jade, pine, and bambo. It has Mount Everest.
2. Polytheistic, meaning the people worshiped many gods. -success of crops and the health and well being of people were based on the happiness of dead ancestors. If the ancestors of a family were pleased, life for that family would be prosperous. If the spirits were not pleased however, great tragedies could occur.-Shang Ti was believed to be the link between people and heavenly beings.  This was done with various rituals and prayers, offerings, and sometimes even human sacrifices.http://www.ushistory.org/civ/9b.asp
3.The Shang Dynasty was a monarchy in which the King ruled by force and immediately killed anyone who transgressed against him.
4. China’s writing system (referred to as Chinese “characters”) first appears on tortoise shells and cattle bones (called “oracle bones”) used for divination. Written language is a central determinant of the development of civilization; the Chinese writing system was the first developed in East Asia.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/kp_shang.htm
5. People made high quality jars and plaques out of bronze to give to their gods.

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Geographic: Divided into east and west, perfect square.
Religion: Three areas of dynasties: heavenly spirits, terrestrial forces and human ancestors. The top four priests were prayers, diviners, sacrificers, and astrologers.
Government: Feudal system, where people got land in exchange for a service.
Writing: Zhou dynasty used written language, the major script of the Zhou was Dazhuan, also called "Zhou wen"
Art: Artist began to create the first Chinese pictures of whole scenes with several people and a landscape. They also started to make bronze jars and cups that people began using in their houses to show how rich and powerful they were.
Group members: Ashley Winiarski, Austin Loy, Andrea Wells, Jessica Peel, Aly Conlee.

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Four River Valley Civilizations by Entei

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