DBQ Essay: Four River Valley Civilization

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Four River Valley DBQ Essay
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In the Neolithic time period early human created the four early river valley. The early river valley civilization started in four different geographical area around the world the Nile River Valley which is present-day Egypt, Tigris-Euphrates River Valley which is present-day Iraq, Yellow River Valley which is present day China, Indus River Valley which is present-day India.The reason that people created the civilization is because of the geographical factor to provided food supply for the people.I agree that Even though the early river valley civilizations developed in our different places, they have more similarities than differences like agriculture religion and language. In my body paragraph you
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In document 6 it explains that because of the Indus river it provided rich farmlands provided food for the people in over a hundred cities and towns. Agriculture is one of the reasons that support why their is more similarities in the four river valley civilization due to the geographical factor which provided them food supply and maintained irrigation system in the four river valley

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