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The first known civilization. The writing was in cuneiform, there is recording on economic transaction. The cuneiform is regarded as the world's first written language
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They had kingdoms, famous for their pharaohs and pyramids; they also had a separate civilization known as Nubia farther south along the Nile. They wrote in Hieroglyphs
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The civilization is less know and recently investigated. It was third early civilization that was developing along the central cost of Peru. It was smaller than Sumer and shows less evidence of economic specialization ceremonies
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The Chinese civilization had many dynasties. The main one was the Xia dynasty. The legendary monarch Wu organized flood control projects. There were the subsequent ones were the Shang and Zhou dynasties. They had lavish tombs for their rulers. T
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They had an distinctive cultural style they expressed it in its architecture, ceramics, burial techniques, seals, and more. They had evidence of aristocratic social hierarchy comes from decpictions of Gods etc.
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They had ceremonial bathing, burned incense, bulls and elephants as religious symbols. The writing system is undeciphered
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Generated cultural patterns -- mound building, artistic styles, urban planning, a game played with a rubber ball that spread wildly throughout the region and influenced other civilizations, Maya and Teotihuacan