Mesopotamian Civilsation -generalknowledge933.com * It is the oldest civilisation of the world. Mesopotamia is the land between the rivers Tigris and uphrates. * Mesopotamians were the first to use potter wheel, to make glass ware, to evolve a proper system of writing called cuneiform. cuneiform script was deciphered ba Henry Rawlinson. * mesopotamians discovered sexagesimal system of counting (based on sixities), pyhogoras theorem and the lenght of day and night. Chinese Civilisation * The earliest civilisation was bay the shang (chou) Dynasty, followed by the chin and han dynasties. * In 3rd century BC, the ruler of china dynasty built the Great Wall. * Chinese scirpt was pictographic and their celendarwas a combination of solar-lunar celendar. * Silk became the chief item of export during the Hangs. * The two major religion were Taoism and Confucianism. They invented water clock, abacus and umbrella. Iranian Civilisation * Tis civilisation developed in around...
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