What ecological factors were common to all of the major river valley civilizations? How did these factors influence the emergence of these societies?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Ecological commonalities in river valley civilizations
1. gradually warming and drying climate
2. relatively dry soils
3. reliance on seasonally flooding rivers
4. irrigation systems
B. Influence on emergence of societies
1. divergence opened cultural chasms inside this common ecological framework
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