Four World Civilizations

The geographical features of China determined the development of its first civilizations, and indeed geography plays a role in all of the ancient civilizations and how they developed over time. China proper was divided into the basic division of North and South. Chinese civilization was based on intensive farming and so spread over time into areas suitable for agriculture, while it did not take hold in regions too dry for farming. The southern region is the area best suited for subsistence farming and later intensive farming, and the region is bordered by areas that are unsuitable for agriculture.

Archaeologists have speculated that because agriculture began as early as it did in southeast Asia, there might then be a relationship between this early activity and the spread of it into the north of China. It is known that there was north-south contact in terms of pottery. The pattern of settlement distribution and the nature of cultural

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es. By 3000 B.C., Sumeria was divided into city states with powerful royal courts and priesthoods, and these rulers employed a variety of skilled craftsmen, importing metals and precious stones from the hill country. They also invented writing to facilitate the administration of so much wealth. This was the height of the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia. Sumeria faced the most difficult conditions because of geographical realities, and as a consequence this society was less stable than those of Egypt or the Indus valley. The rivers have attracted people since the dawn of civilization. The Indus valley attracted people to the riverbanks for the same reason as people were attracted to the Nile and the Tigris and the Euphrates, and they have used the rich flow of water not simply to sustain life but also to assure ample surplus for all those artisans, craftsmen, bureaucrats, and armies removed from direct dependence on the soil, thanks to the River's bounty. It is this ability to produce an agricultural surplus that made the development of civilization possible, and the growth of civilization has clearly been related to the increasing urbanization that this surplus makes possible. The river in the ancient civilizations became
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