There were also civil servants who helped the king to manage his possessions. The king was also in charge of the army which he created to protect his possessions.and many times the king had religious functions. The king kept control of everything, from politics to religion. The main characteristics of river civilizations were: If we compare them, we can observe a great change.
Lifestyle and the way society was structured in the river civilizations were completely different from the ones before. In Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China they emerged along rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates, in Mesopotamia the River Nile, in Egypt the Indus River in India and the Yellow and Blue rivers, in China
That is why they are called river civilizations. It was about 5000 years ago that the first civilizations apperared along the banks of large rivers.
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