global test 10/15 READ THIS AND STUDY!!!!!!!

Global hw: read " I am Hatshepsut" answer the 5 questions on seperated sheet of paper.

THIS TEST IS OCTOBER 15TH.

MY EXTRA HELP DAY IS ALWAYS MONDAY.
YOU MUST LET ME KNOW YOU WANT TO STAY.


IT IS YOUR 1ST BIG TEST THIS YEAR IN GLOBAL STUDIES.
YOU SHOULD STUDY THE 8 FEATURES OF CIVILIZATIONS FOR FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER VALLEYS.
1. MESOPOTAMIA
2. EGYPT
3. INDUS
4. CHINA


A civilization is compiled of eight features.
1. Cities
2. Well-Organized Central Government
3. Complex Religions
4. Job Specialization
5. Social Classes
6. Arts and Architecture
7. Public Works
8. Written language

The first cities emerged shortly after farmers began cultivating fertile lands along river valleys and producing surplus foods. These surpluses allowed the population to expand. As population grew, some villages expanded into cities. These cities rose independently in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The conditions of river valleys favored farming in these and other such river valleys. Floodwater spread silt across the valley renewing the soil and keeping it fertile. Animals that drank from the river were also a source of food. The river also supplied the people with a regular source of drinking water and the means of transportation. However rivers also posed challenges. Farmers had to control flooding and channel waters to the fields. Early farmers built dikes, dug canals and also made irrigation ditches. Such projects required leadership and a well-organized government. A government was required to lead the people and aid in organizing a city. City governments were far more powerful than the council of elders and local chiefs of farming villages. At first, Priest probably had the greatest. In time, warrior kings came to power as chief political leaders. They soon set themselves up as the chief hereditary ruler and passed their power from father to son. Governments soon became more complex as rulers issued laws, collected taxes, and organizes systems of defense. To enforce order, rulers relied on royal officials. Over time, government bureaucracies evolved. Almost always rulers claimed their power came from god or divine right. These rulers then gained religious power as well. Like the Stone Age ancestors, most people were polytheistic. People appealed to the sun god, river goddess and other such spirits that they believed controlled natural forces. Other gods were believed to control human activities such as birth, death, trade and war. If not for these sometime simple things a civilization could never have come to. Rome and Egypt and other such great empires would never have exited. Man would just lead a nomadic, uncivilized lifestyle and the technologies we take for granted today would never have existed.