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Nile
- Goes through Egypt
- 4150 miles long
- Floods from July to November
- Brought new soil
- Surrounding seas protected them from war and disease
- River was used for transportation, north and south
- Valley contains granite, sandstone, limestone
- Farming
- Animals were largely used as beasts of burden
- Barley leeks garlic wheat lentils turnips plums melons figs flax onions beans lettuce radishes grapes and cabbages
- Wheat into bread
- Barely into beer
- Flax and linen into cloth
- Used other river provided goods for paper
- Polytheistic
- Caste system
  - 1. King
  - 2. Ruling class
  - 3. Craftsman
  - 4. Marginalized groups
  - 5. Slaves
- Nile was necessary for life in the early Nile fiver valley
Ancient
Mesopotamia
- Babylon
  - Most fertile and rich parts of ancient world
  - Jews were held there
  - Means gate of gods
  - Located in the land of shinar
  - Powerful state
  - In the near east
  - Between tigress and Euphrates
  - Long narrow country
  - Death penalty for theft murder adultery kidnaping rape and the receiving stolen goods form a temple or palace
  - Mirage was legal only when it was written down
Nile
- The first dynasty
  - From 3100 B.C to 2890 B.C.
  - Founded in lower kingdom
  - Capitol was Memphis
  - Pharaoh Narmer reunited the two kingdoms
  - No definite contrast between first and second dynasty so many historians combine the first two
  - Second dynasty
    - 2890 to2585 B.C.
    - During the early dynastic period of Egypt
    - Capital was Thinis
    - Last pharaoh was Khasekhemwy
    - Married Nemathap, ended second dynasty
    - Marriage strengthened the unity of the upper and lower dynasty
    - Son Djoser was the first pharaoh of the third dynasty
    - Third dynasty started the New Kingdom Period in Egypt
    - you could be put to death for killing a cat
    - cats were thought to be manifestations of the goddess Bast
Indus
- Arose 2500 B.C.
- Have been 1056 settlements found
- Called Harappan culture
- Unknown founders
- Irrigation systems
- First known sanitation system
- Strong and stable government
- Written language is as of yet deciphered
Yellow river
- Shang Dynasty
  - 1600 B.C. to 1046B.C
  - First family of Chinese rulers that left written records
  - Built palaces and tombs
  - Ruled yellow river Valley defeating the Xia Dynasty
  - Capital was anyang
  - Language was old Chinese
  - Chinese fold religion
  - Were a monarchy
  - Civilization was based on ag. Lots of hunting and animal care
  - They fought a lot of wars with nomadic people and neighboring settelments
  - Court rituals were buried alive with royal corps
  - Shang tang was the last leader
  - Killed himself after his army lost

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