Ancient Civilizations: The Ancient River Valley Civilization

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The Ancient River Valley civilizations experienced a lot of technological advances in its era. There are six early civilizations that we have covered in World History. Those were the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indus Valley, Meso and South American, and Shang China civilizations. The Mesopotamian civilization was developed in 3500 BCE, the Egyptian was developed by 3000 BCE, the Indus Valley was developed by 2500 BCE, Shang China was developed by 1700 BCE, and Meso and South America was developed by 1200 BCE. Every civilization has had a large impact on the life we have today from weapons to

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