Monotheism was started by the babylonians. israelites. chinese. egyptians.

Israelites.

Explanation: We can automatically cross of Chinese from that list because it had nothing to do with that time. The Egyptians came before the Israelites and were polytheistic (believe in more than one god). Babylonians are technically Egyptians, so it is Israelites

early settlements on the subcontinent. both the indus and the ganges rivers carried rich silt from the mountains to the plains. when the rivers flooded, the silt spread over the plains and made the soil in the river valleys fertile for farming.