Each Civilizations grew when the people learned to grow a staple Barley Soy Beans crop; usually a grain Wheat Millet Egypt – Barley Corn Rice Mesopotamia – Barley Mesoamerica – Corn South America – Corn and Potatoes Indus River – Wheat and Barley Northern China – Wheat, Soy Beans and Millet Southern China - Rice
Northern China Shang Dynasty – 1750 BCE – 1045 BCE Zou Dynasty – 1045 BCE – 600 BCE Qin Dynasty – 221 BCE - 206 BCE Han Dynasty – 202 BCE – 220 CE
Southern China Southeast Asia Khmer , Funan, Angkor - 100 CE – 1500 s CE Vietnam - Champa kingdom 192 CE – 1700 CE Nanzhao kingdom 729 CE – 1253 CE (Yunnan) Pyu kingdoms 100 BCE- 840 CE (Myanmar)
Indus River Valley Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro - 3000 BCE – 1500 BCE Aryan Rule – 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Mauryan Empire – 324 BCE – 183 BCE Gupta Empire – 320 CE – 400+ CE