First Textbook Notes

Today in Western civ some people in our class needed to finish taking the test so we got assigned a certain amount of pages and had to take notes on them. I only got through the first page or two, but I got some good notes. The pages correlated to what we would be doing in the next chapter. Some notes I got were:
MY NOTES:
-Early river valley civilizations (3500 BC- 450 BC)
-Hammurabi's Code- first written laws that hold people responsible for their actions
-Fertile Crescent- the region (southwest Asia) curved shape and the richness of its land led scholars to call it the Fertile Crescent
-Mesopotamia- the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea and a plain (known as Mesopotamia)
-Mesopotamia also means "land between the rivers" in greek
-river framing Mesopotamia are the Tigris and Euphrates
-T&E flow southeastward to the Persian Gulf
NOTES ON MR SCHICK BOARD:
-the earliest civilizations formed on the fertile river planes, facing challenges such as seasonal flooding and a limited growing area
-projects such as irrigation systems required leadership and LAWS (organized government). They were controlled by priest, military leaders, and/or kings
-early civilizations developed bronze tools, the wheel, the sail, the plow, writing, and mathematics. These spread through trade, wars, and the movement of people
TIMELINE:
~(3000 BC) city-states form in Sumer Mesopotamia (bronze head of an Akkadian ruler)
~(2660 BC) Egypt's old kingdom develops (Egyptian scribe statue)
~(1792 BC) Hammurabi develops code of laws for Babylonian Empire
~(1750 BC) Indus Valley civilization declines (fragment of a Harappa pot)
~(1027 BC) Zhou Dynasty forms in China (Zhou bronze vessel)