RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

TWO CIVILIZATIONS

• Mesopotamia, a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system.
• The Indus Valley river extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan

COMPARING MESOPOTAMIA & INDUS VALLEY

• They both are bronze aged civilizations
• They both are ancient civilizations

CONTRASTING

• Mesopotamia is Ancient Greek
• Indus Valley river is Ancient Egypt

ADVANCED CITIES FOR RIVER VALLEY

• Municipal
• Harappa
• Mohenjo-Daro
• Rakhigarhi

ADVANCED CITIES FOR MESOPOTAMIA

• Uruk
• Assur
• Babylon
• Akkad
• Nimrud

SPECIALIZED LABOR FOR MESOPOTAMIA

• Like the Nile civilization, the Sumerian labor system greatly resembled the social class system.
• This group consited of the King who was usually brought in to power by a public vote
• In this powerful group were also nobles who were generally family members of the rulers.