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The Egyptians called the Nile river the giver and taker of life
The Egyptians used there natural resources to make paper boats they also used irrigation to make small rivers to use the water for crops people settled near the Nile river and soon needed a ruler the started pharaohs -
earliest evidence of people living in the Indus valley region
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The Indus valley civilization was created by the Indus river this region covered pakistan and Afghanistan the reason they lived so well is because how it flooded twice so they planted twice
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humans learned they could live near rivers to get food instead of following animals
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high rainfall would create floods and destroy homes
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Hunter gatherers settled along the Tigris and Euphrates they soon formed a village droughts made it hard to farm so people began to specialize this also started trade
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Sumerians were the first group to grow into a civilization a city state it was they worshiped gods uruk was the oldest city ever
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the social classes in Egypt had the pharaoh at the top women had the same rights as men Egyptians had there own writing system called hieroglyphics
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Sargon the great united city states to form his empire it was the first empire eventually it was overthrown due to no protection Hammurabi took control of a place and turned it into Babylonia he became king around 1792 BCE more people could read he decided he needed a law system so he instated Hammurabi's code which was basically an eye for an eye
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Egyptians had many gods and goddesses they also believed in the afterlife they made mummies the three kingdoms were the old middle and new kingdoms