China
Invented cast iron
Invented silk
Built the Great Wall
Mesopotamia
Built Ziggaruts as temples
Organized into City-States
Invented irrigation canals
Egypt
Invented a paper-like substance
Built pyramids for pharaohs
Flooding was predictable
Flooding was very unpredictable
Leadership was a Dynastic cycle
Viewed leaders as part god
All had forms of writing
Built temples for their gods
Polytheistic
Relied on nearby river for farming
