THE NILE RIVER:
- grew wheat , vegetables
- farming community
- grain was most important
- three seasons
- Akhet (flooding) Peret(growing) and shemu(harvesting) - built mud brick reservoirs to hold water to store and hold water for crops and fertile soil (irrigation canals)
- used shadufs to lift water from the canals
- kept cattle goats pigs ducks and geese
- had a surplus of crops to sell to help the economy flourish from sales
- had a king, ruling class, craftsman, farmers(most people), slaves (little evidence)
- Nile deposited nutrients needed for growing food- plowing served only to break up topsoil.
- Polytheistic religion or believing in multiple gods (hieroglyphics)
- Menes possibly founded ancient Rome.
- Houses out of mud bricks, pyramids, large boats for traveldeserts to east of and west, mountains to the east
- spring the Nile would flood from mountain water
- Longest river in the world 4,100 miles in length, flows north
- get s its water from- Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia
- deserts act as a natural barriers between lands
- floods were very predictable
- geography of Nile causes the fertile soil for them to flourish and economy to prosper.
EARLY RIVER CIVILIZATIONS:
Mesopotamia-
- irrigation was good and bad, water felt behind salt, salt would kill crops
- made of people from Sumer Acadian Assytian and Babylon empires
NILE-
- Ended from flooding
- clay houses washed away crops died and animals died
- Greeks conquered them and the Egyptians cam back to power the then the Romans took over
INDUS:
- river changed course
- soil became infertile
- Harappan ended
- Buddhists and Ladahk and the Dards fo Indo Aryan
- Pakistan Afghanistan and part of Iran
Yellow:
- Shang dynasty ended around 1046 B.C.
- Flows 9 provinces in china
- flooding whiped out the economy...civilization died
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