RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
FOUR VALLEYS OF CIVILIZATIONS NILE RIVER VALLEY INDUS RIVER VALLEY HUANG HE VALLEY FERTILE CRESENT
FERTILE CRESENT MESOPOTAMIA LOCATED BETWEEN TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS 20 TO 150 MILES WIDE
SUMER FIRST CIVILIZATION CITY-STATE GOV’T TEMPLES ZIGGURATES
INVENTIONS WHEEL SEWER, ARCH NUMBER SYSTEM ALGEBRA CUNEIFORM
Cuneiform Oldest written language
BABYLONIANS FIRST WRITTEN LAWS HAMMURABI’S CODE Tower of Babylon
HITTITES (IRON) ASSYRIANS (WARLIKE) CAPITAL NINEVEH CHALDEANS (NEBUCHADNEZZAR) PERSIANS PHOENICIANS (SEA TRADERS,
HEBREWS ABRAHAM, MOSES 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL KINGS SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMAN
CANNAN: FACED DROUGHT-FAMINE-STARVATION ABRAHAMS COVENANT WITH GOD A NATION OUT OF ONE FATHER OF ALL THREE MAJOR RELIGIONS ISSAC AND ISHAMEL JUDISM AND ISLAM
FLEE TO EGYPT AND ARE ENSLAVED LED BY MOSES BACK TO CANNAN 40 YEARS LOST WHEN THEY RETURN WAR WITH PHILISTINES OVER CANNAN (ISRAEL)