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| Indus River Valley culture |
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- jewelry
- some of the first agricultural/pastoral communities in South Asia
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| Indus River Valley technology and innovations |
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- streets in a grid-pattern
- running water and sewage systems in large cities
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| Indus River Valley politics |
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| Indus River Valley economical |
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- focused mainly on farming
- part of the harvest had to be paid to public granaries
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| Indus River Valley religion |
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- some seals show swastikas so
- may be buddhist, hindu, jainist
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| Indus River Valley relations with other cultures |
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- Traded with sumerians
- used trade routes in the Persian Gulf
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- Urban areas were built
- served as cultural, economic, and military centers
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| Huang He Valley technology and innovations |
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- built levees to prevent the huang he from messing up everything
- worked with a lot of bronze
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- Shang Dynasty was the first great empire in China
- Government oversaw irrigation and flood control projects
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| Huang He Valley economics |
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- low class was the largest (as in most civilizations)
- rich class was the smallest
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- oracles were important
- believed they could see messages from the gods by carving questions into animal bone, firing them, and then reading the cracks
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| Huang He Valley Relations |
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- surrounded by mountains, seas, and deserts but they still traded with south/southwest asia
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- music explained important events
- hunting was popular entertainment
- patriarchal society
- girls were married to a predetermined husband at 12 years
- women could own property/divorce
- priests were of high social standing
- merchants were of low social standing
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| Mesopotamian technology/innovations |
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- they built levees
- they invented the wheel, cosmetics, and the first superhero- "Gilgamesh"
- created forms of the plow and calendar
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