ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Names: Luisa Gonzalez, Violeta Vallejo and Mariana Arcila
Date: February 2nd, 2023.
Instructions: Complete the following chart with the information required, remember to be descriptive and write complete sentences.
Location
(Where was the
civilization located?,
continent, north, south
east, west?)
Climate
(Describe the climate of
the civilization)
Landscape features
(Describe the landscape
of the civilization, nearby
river, mountains, oceans,
etc.)
Grade: 6°C
MESOPOTAMIA EGYPT INDIA CHINA
They lived in present day They lived in northern They lived in present day They lived in northern
eastern Turkey and Iraq Egypt (the Nile river). northeast Afganisthan, China (Yellow river).
(Tigris and Euphrates Pakistan and northwest India
rivers). (the Indus river valley).
The climate was semi- It was much milder than In the Indus valley climate There was lots of rainfall
arid with a vast desert in temperatures in present ranged from dry semidesert during the summer. It was
the north. day Egypt. There were areas and severe high hot and humid from
more animals and mountain climate. March to November.
vegetation.
There was desert in the The Nile had freshwater It was a small area of land The Yellow River has four
north and 5,800 square marshes and swamps on its surrounded by forests, areas: the mountainous
miles of lagoons, mud way north, and wetlands desert and ocean apart from north, the Tibet plateau,
flats and reed banks in where it splits into the the large Indus River. and the southern plain.
the south. Mediterranean Sea. The wildlife area contains
a forest of silver maple,
green ash, swamp white
oak and river birch.
Defense from invaders Mesopotamia didn’t have
(What defenses did the any natural barriers, and
land naturally provide made the civilization a
them from invaders? Did subject to invasion. The
they build any defenses?) people of this civilization
built walls against natural
problems rather than
human intruders.
This civilization had many The Indus Valley had all The Yellow River Valley is
natural barriers of desert mountains to its north and a surrounded by natural
and mountains across the large desert to its west. It barriers of mountains and
Nile. These barriers was also protected by the deserts.
isolated them and the ocean.
Egyptians were able to
develop their culture.