Other 'cradles of civilisation'

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