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1 RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

2 FOUR VALLEYS OF CIVILIZATIONS
NILE RIVER VALLEY INDUS RIVER VALLEY HUANG HE VALLEY FERTILE CRESENT

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4 FERTILE CRESENT MESOPOTAMIA
LOCATED BETWEEN TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS 20 TO 150 MILES WIDE

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6 SUMER FIRST CIVILIZATION CITY-STATE GOV’T TEMPLES ZIGGURATES

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8 INVENTIONS WHEEL SEWER, ARCH NUMBER SYSTEM ALGEBRA CUNEIFORM

9 Cuneiform Oldest written language

10 BABYLONIANS FIRST WRITTEN LAWS HAMMURABI’S CODE Tower of Babylon

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12 HITTITES (IRON) ASSYRIANS (WARLIKE) CAPITAL NINEVEH CHALDEANS (NEBUCHADNEZZAR) PERSIANS PHOENICIANS (SEA TRADERS,

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14 HEBREWS ABRAHAM, MOSES 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL KINGS SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMAN

15 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

16 FLEE TO EGYPT AND ARE ENSLAVED
LED BY MOSES BACK TO CANNAN 40 YEARS LOST WHEN THEY RETURN WAR WITH PHILISTINES OVER CANNAN (ISRAEL)

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