first civilizations started near rivers and they constructed canals and dikens to control flooding1 they obtained great harvest because of that and they constructed large bulding.

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first civilizations started near rivers and they constructed canals and dikens to control flooding, they obtained great harvest because of that and they constructed large bulding. mesopotamia was between the rivers tigris and eupharates. egypt was closed to the river nile india was closed to the river indus china was near the river yellow. Writing develop in mesopotamia and Egypt around the 4 millenium. It was used for practical propuses and the people that were especializated on that were called scribes. Types of writings: Mesopotamia: cuneiform Egypt: hyeroglyphics China: system of pictograms, ideograms and logograms. The alphabet was invented by Phoecians in 1200b.c The rosetta stone is divided in three parts and in each it is writen in a diferent lenguages that were: hieroglypics, demotic and greek. the stone was discovered by Champollion. Political organisation: they need strong goverments, so monarchs emerged and the king goverment trought laws, royal goverment and the army. In their society there were social differences and also it was hieralchical. Mesopotamia: - Means land between rivers - there they constructed irrigation systems to fertilizated the land. - It wa...