Similarities And Differences Between The River Valley And River Valley Civilizations

The earliest forms of civilizations were said to be located on the three river valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates River in ancient Mesopotamia, the Nile River in ancient Egypt and the Huang He and Indus River in ancient India and China. These three river valley civilizations had many differences yet still lived common life styles. Although the civilizations are located on different continents, they share similar social, political, and economic beliefs from their intellectual developments to types of government to religious beliefs and trading systems.

Although early river valley civilizations developed in four separate places, they seem to have more similarities than differences. This essay will compare and contrast the ancient Egyptian, Harappan, Chinese, and Sumerian civilizations.

The river valley civilizations of Sumer, Egypt, India, and China were historical pillars of innovation. Not only were they each responsible for having forged new technological innovations, but they each created their own system of writing as well. Each of them meets the requirements of being labeled as a “civilization” because each had a form of social organization, trade and economic activity, government, division of labor, and some form of record keeping. What sets them apart from one another are the specifics within the similarities they shared. These similarities and differences within their technological innovations and writing are numerous.

The two ancient river valley civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River valley civilization, prior to 600 BCE had many things that remained stagnant in terms of their cultures but also they had just as many changes. Due to New advances and by influence from other civilizations such as the Indus over Mesopotamia and vice versa this increased the amount of change a lot.

Egypt is one of the best known ancient river societies. They had a writing system that was similar to Mesopotamia, called hieroglyphics. The writing system used pictures like cuneiform, but they had a more advanced object to write on. As opposed to a stone, Egyptians wrote on papyrus, a paper-like material that was much easier and faster for scribes. Egyptians were polytheistic like Mesopotamians, but they were more focused on the afterlife than them.

The Neolithic Revolution was the start of a new way of living. Around 10,000 years ago, people started to settle down to live in one place. During the Paleolithic Era people were nomadic, so they kept on moving from place to place. They are hunter and gatherers which means that they would stay close to the animals as that is their only source of food. They would live in small populations because they

The Neolithic Period, which includes events from 12,000 years ago, is one of the most important revolutions to occur in history. The Neolithic lifestyle was established first in the Middle East, and then later in the Yellow river basin in China, which then spread over the years into the Western Hemisphere. During this time period, the domestication of plants and animals and the development of cities was starting to become more prominent and well known to many different civilizations across many different countries. It consisted of many changes in human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of farming and settlement, which supported a larger population. As civilizations expanded, so did traditions and techniques. A major

Even though the Neolithic revolution dates back to thousands of years ago, it is still one of the most important revolutions. It shaped how we live today. This revolution began in places we know today as Iraq, Syria and Eastern Turkey. All these places were known as the Mesopotamian back then. There are many important aspects of the Neolithic revolution including: agriculture, domestication of animals, and technology. The Neolithic revolution was also known as new stone age era because it began the introduction of farming.

The Neolithic Revolution also known as the Agricultural Transformation was “the most momentous turn in the progress of humankind” (Hillel, 1991). This transformation began with having the capacity to produce crops and maintain livestock. This allowed for people to gain a massive source of food, which allowed for permanent settlement. As well as the growth of population and the demand of greater advances. Hunters/gathers/wanderers had no need for their skills anymore. Which is why they made the transition to become settler and live a settled life. With no need to hunt for good and no need to gather a food supply the human could provide for family in a more progressive manner. Transition of this became possible due to the creation of crop stability

Both writing systems developed in the Middle East, one in Mesopotamia, and one in Egypt. Now they are both considered dead forms of writing. Although the origin of the names, the symbols of the numbers, and the amount of symbols each writing system has, the similarities of stages of development, the Sumerian influence, and the surface of writing prove that the two writing systems were more similar than

The term "Neolithic Revolution" was used to describe the origin and consequences of farming, meaning the development of livestock herding and agriculture, and as a result the widespread development of settled village life. The term thus describes a change from hunter-gatherers to food-producing societies. General patterns of the Neolithic Revolution have been identified by drawing syntheses out of the most intensively studied regions, such as Asia, Meso-America and other parts of North America.These patterns usually emphasize the domestication of plants before animals, settled peoples, and pottery invention after or at least simultaneously with plant domestication. In addition, the Neolithic Revolution followed a different path –the main

As the world transitioned from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age, civilization underwent one of the greatest single changes of mankind. People began changing their ways of life and realizing their are much more efficient ways of doing things. The domestication of animals and agriculture allowed them to stop hunting and gathering. Which helped lead to farming and herding instead. This then allowed them to settle in one place and for villages to start to form. Since people did not have to worry about being nomadic they could now put more focus on new inventions and technology that would later be even more improved. Still to this day, the change from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age is one of the most substantial changes in

In the time of The Neolithic Revolution, there was a big change from 10,000 B.C. through 5,000 B.C. there was 2 major changes that happened. The first one was crops grew in Middle East to make food to eat and survive. The second one was invention of wheel, used for transportation to travel to different places. In Document 1 of Early People and the Neolithic Revolution it shows the improvement from hunting and gathering to having stonework, their own crops and animal, most likely their own resources. Also according to Document 2 it changed people’s lives for example, Ulana and her friends. They have all the resources they need not only for food but things like wood and bricks to build shelter (houses)/villages.

The Yellow River Valley Civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. It is also the main source of Chinese civilization. The Yellow River is not just a river, the name stands for the origins of their culture and civilization. It has been referred to as “the Mother River” to the Chinese and “the Cradle of Chinese Civilization.” The River was the birth place of ancient civilizations in the Xia and Shang eras from 2100-1600 BC and 1600-1046 BC. The religions of the Chinese, were the most prosperous in early Chinese history. The people regarded yellow as a color of ancient origins, an emblem of the loess land the Yellow River flows through, the yellow skin of the Chinese, the legendary Chinese Dragon from whom they are descendants from, and the emperor.

Advancements in technology and changes in society have often led to major improvements throughout history that brought about revolutions. The first considerable change in societies came with the Neolithic Revolution around 10,000 B.C. Despite ancient societies being spread far apart with no real trade routes established at the time, they all developed the same way beginning with the transition from nomadic people to agrarian civilizations. The prominent civilizations that came out of the Neolithic Revolution were Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. These civilizations can represent how the social and political structures were after the revolution. Overall this massive settling of people impacted the politics in a way that established roles in civilizations and social structures in a way that stratified the societies.