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There were many factors that influenced the people in the indus river valley. They had rivers all around them which provided fertile soil it also provided them with a water source, trade routes and connection to the outside world.

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Cities in Indus were Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Lothal, and Mehrgarh. These were the major cities in the Indus River Valley Civilization. The with rich agricultural lands being surrounded by highlands, desert, and ocean.

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Cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Civilt%C3%A0ValleIndoMappa.png

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http://history-world.org/indus_valley.htm

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Their tool were from bronze, copper, peacocks, ivory, and cotton textiles. The people of the Indus Civilization achieved great accuracy in measuring length, mass, and time. This advantage increased the production and speed at an enormous rate; and brought new people to the land.

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http://www.harappa.com/indus3/e1.html

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http://www.harappa.com/indus3/e1.html






The Classification of the Indus Civilization was Brahmias, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sodras, and Dalits. People were born into social classes that could not be changed. Having slaves would make lives for these people easy, without them none of their hard labor would have been completed.

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Specialization-Slavery

http://www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/indus.php

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The Indus River Valley invented scripts and Teloga. There are Between 400 and as many as 600 distinct Indus symbols have been found on seals, small tablets, or ceramic pots and over a dozen other materials.

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They worshipped Hinduism and their many Gods. One of their symbols in the temples where swastikas. Also many symbols involved animals. There where many pictures of animals and humans combined into one body this represented a few of their many Gods.

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Complex Institutions-Religion

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There were many factors that influenced the people in the Chinease River Valley. They had rivers all around them which provided fertile soil it also provided them with a water source, trade routes and connection to the outside world.

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Huang He is the second longest river in China. It didn’t have many major cities but was used as a great route for trade. The Chang Jiang, and the Xi Jiang were the major rivers that people used.

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Cities

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There where many religions in Huang-He River Valley. The most common religions practiced were Daoism and Confucianism. The culture was heavily influenced by Daoism.

Shamanism was practiced in this culture, meaning the Chinese thought that there was a separate world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits.

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Chinese writing was used for keeping a record of trade and money transactions. The name of the of the Chinese River Valley form of writing was called Oracle Bone

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http://www.google.com/imgres?q=chinese+writing&num=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox






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Their most prized materials were bronze and jade. They came up with a unique way to make silk cloth from silkworms. Bronze was used to make pots, weapons, bells, and other objects, and iron was eventually used.

This changed everyone's way of living when all these methods were soon discovered

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Specialization- Slavery

Kings - Kings were the supreme rulers of the Huang He civilization.

Nobles-Nobles are the next highest social class and were born with this honor.

Commoners-These people were the less fortunate people of Huang He.

Slaves-Last is the group of slaves. These very unfortunate people were most likely a prisoner of war, a convicted criminal, or a minority.

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Rome bordered the Mediterranean sea which allowed it to trade with many countrys around it. It also was a water source and brought in ocean weather






Ancient Rome was the largest city in world. It is said that Rome’s population was over 1 million people when the city was at the height of its power.

In the center of Rome there was a Forum. This is where people would meet this was a natural place to put government buildings, temples and palaces. As Rome grew they came up with a new Central place larger in size where people could meet.

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Cities

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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient_rome.htm






In building bridges this was one of the most influential achievements and showed that the roman people were way ahead of their time. They were built with stone and had the arch as its basic structure . The Romans used concrete also.

Building bridges help people get from town to town and improved trade.

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Technology

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http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_technology.htm






Romans kept track with almost all the things that were going on in their city. They kept records of owners of property, records of trade such as ships’ cargoes, weather records, the records of the politicians.

Without this everyone in the city would be lost, all the government officials would be unorganized and the city wouldn’t be able to run smoothly

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Record Keeping

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Pagan religions believed in many gods and generally worshipped the earth, sea, sun, sky and many other elements of nature. They believed that they should please them because they thought that the Gods affected their everyday lives.

They didn’t build mythologies like the Greeks they just thought everything had a spirit. The Romans had to keep them happy through worship and sacrifice such as killing one another.

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Religion

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Roman slavery was not racially based, you were a slave if you were captured during war and sent back to Rome. A Slave would be sold at a market place. Once bought, a slave was a slave for life and could only get their freedom if they were given it by their owner or if they bought their freedom.

Without Slaves most of the hard work wouldn’t have been done and Rome would not have the works of art they have to this day.

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Specialization- Slavery

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ancient+roman+slaves&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firfox

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_slaves.htm



http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_slaves.htm


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Greece bordered the Mediterranean sea which allowed it to trade with many countrys around it. It also was a water source and brought in ocean weather.






The Greek cities include: Athens, Sikyon, Corinth, Thebes, Argos, Mykenae, Delph, Olympia. These were the major cities and they were the centers of trade

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Cities

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http://www.sikyon.com/index.html



http://www.sikyon.com/index.html


The torsion catapult consisted of a winch, one or two throwing arms, wooden washers, a stand or base, and the rope spring. This machine could throw objects up to 100 mph.

With the Greeks insight, torsion catapults have be around for many decades and became great weapons in medieval warfare.

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Technology

http://www.in2greece.com/english/maps/ancient-greece-map.html

http://www.medieval-castle-siege-weapons.com/torsion-catapults.html






The Ancient Greek Civilizations kept records of birth, property, law, money tax. They wrote this in Hieroglyphs and as time moved along they moved to a syllabic alphabet.

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http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ancient+greece+writing&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/articles/gancient.htm



http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/articles/gancient.htm


There were many jobs in this time. The manufacture workers specialized in making goods like pottery, armor, and clothing. Most farmers worked alone, but the entire family would help out during planting and herding season more than half the people in this time were farmers. Traders would sell goods in exchange for slaves, grain, metals and timber.

This is how people made a living in this time.

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Specialization-Jobs

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http://www.nuuanu.k12.hi.us/G-1/public_html/websites/taylor/pages/jobs.html


The Greek people recognized 12 major Gods and Goddess: Zeus, Hera, Poeidon, Apolla, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestos, Athena, Hermes. Demeter, Hestia and Dinoysus. Zeus was the God of all Gods and was the main god the people worshipped.

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Religion

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ancient+greece+zeus&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox

http://www.greekreligion.org/


The jaclon people lived in the present day Argentina. The had large populations and multiple cities. Their capital, dis-janksville, was the largest, with a population of 30 million people. This was a mountainous area and had a tropical climate.

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Jaclon

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The jaclon people invented many things but the most commonly used one was the egg beater. It was create in a little village outside of the capital. The jaclonians however where not known for the inventions.

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Technology

The jaclon people where very good archatects. This is a piece of the capital left that is on exhibit. Each city had subdivisions in the city. Each subdivision was like a community and had everything you would need in everyday life.

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Cities

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Like the Egyptians the Jaclonians used hieroglyphics to write and record records. When a Jaclon library was found the discovered records written in hieroglyphics spreading across thousands of years.

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Record keeping

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The Jaclon people worshipped the great god galxieas. The built temples and every Tuesday the would go to the temple a his snout to show there great love for him.

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Complex institutions.

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There were many job specializations in Jaclon but a big one was pot making. There where many different ways to make a pot and different makers had there different ways. You could dry and mold the clay or you could make an outline, fill it, and then dry it but those are just a few of the many ways.

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Specialization

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