The development of farming caused ancient people to give up their normal lifestyles and establish permanent settlements, which grew into civilizations. Most early civilizations developed on River Valleys. Governments, social structures, writing systems, and belief systems developed as population grew. Ideas moved from one culture to another with the help of migration, trade and warfare. Ancient River Valley civilizations developed around river valleys, but they are all different. Two of them are in China and Egypt. Although Egypt and China both had River Valley civilizations and were similar, they had many more differences.

The river valley in Egypt is around the Nile River. The Nile is a very famous river for being the only river that flows north. It was very useful to the Egyptians because it floods periodically in a cycle that was predictable. It was also very gentle, but not too gentle or else it couldn't...