Key learning points

1. Mesopotamia and the Nile were not the only places where people stopped moving around and settled down to farm.
2. In Asia, other civilisations developed in the Indus River Valley and the Yellow River Valley.
3. Historians and archaeologists sometimes use the phrase 'cradles of civilisation' to describe these places.
4. As in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus and the Yellow River Valleys channeled water for farming.
5. As in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus and the Yellow River Valleys created cities and art.

Keywords

• Nomadic - nomadic people do not settle to live in one place but move from place to place

• Cradle - a cradle is a small bed or cot that helps keep babies safe and warm when they sleep

• Similarity - a similarity is when something is like something else, but is not exactly the same

Common misconception