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The Western Experience book cover
The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The First Civilizations

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Map 1

Chapter 1 Map Exercise 1 (83.0K)
  1. Drag the label for each of the three earliest civilizations to its location on the map:
    • Sumer
    • Egypt
    • Indus Valley
  2. Click on the primary region that barbarian invaders came from.
  3. Click on the two areas of early interaction between civilizations.

Map 2

Chapter 1 Map Exercise 2 (143.0K)
  1. Click on
    1. the four primary areas where early agricultural sites were located
    2. the three main river valleys in the region
    3. the three areas where the first three civilizations appeared.
  2. Click on the locations of the following civilizations at their heights:
    1. Egypt (1300 B.C.)
    2. the Hittite kingdom (1200 B.C.)
    3. the Hebrew kingdom (900 B.C.)
    4. the Assyrian Empire (650 B.C.)
    5. the Persian Empire (500 B.C.)