The Beginning of Empires:
NILE RIVER:
- Settlement began around 7000 B.C.
- Land Kenet- called this because of rich soil
- Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt
- Narmer caused the division into three Divisions
YELLOW RIVER:
- The Cradle of Chinese civilization
- Xia dynasty was the 1st dynasty
- use floods to wipe out enemy troops
MESOPOTAMIA:
- Sargan founded the Akkadian dynasty
- Language was Akkadian
- Religion Sumerian
- Monarchy Government
INDUS:
- Bronze age civilization
- really no empire around the river
- Indus Valley Civilization also know as Harappan
- went across Pakistan and northwestern India
- more then 500 site discovered for Harappan civilization
only 100 found on the Indus River
PRESENTED! our presentation on the Indus River beginning of class:)
MESOPOTAMIA:
GEOGRAPHY:
- means between the rivers
- Tigris and Euphrates river
- hill and plains with rivers and streams
- Marshy and wide flat lands in the south
- Fertile land from streams, rivers and floods
- The Fertile Crescent-Iraq Syria Lebanon Cyprus Jordan Palestine Kuwait Sinai Peninsula and Northern Mesopotamia
- Droughts happened very often
- Farms didn't ever know when to plant so they could actually have a yield
- Irrigation canals were built in 6000 B.C.
- workers controlled and cleaned the canals
- Resources came from Mud and other Natural things
- No mountains, forests, or natural barriers
CULTURE:
- Gods were important
- Gods involved music
- over 3000 gods
- Hunting was very popular along with Boxing and wrestling
- Girls were raised to be women of the house and not to act as individuals
HISTORY:
- Constant warfare and shifting empire
- Babylon the capital built on on the Euphrates
- The two rivers flow south into the Persian Gulf
CITIES:
- 4500 B.C. settlements started on the two rivers and emerged there
- Sumer was the first Civilization in Mesopotamia
- Had temples to honor gods of their cities
- Eridu, Bad-Tibria, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak were the first five City-States
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
Indus River
Harappa
- built on mud bricks to protect from flooding.
-lived off crops
-Houses were made of mud brick
-flourished around 2600-1700 B.C. in the western part of Asia. They were literate which means they could read and right
Mohegan-Dora: means hill of the dead.
-The only civilization to have a private bathroom.
-located in larkana district of sindh, Pakistan. Largest city. Simple form of agriculture.
-Got between 5- 20 inches. Great for farming made soil excellent.
-Stretches across six countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.
-Modern canals allows cotton, sugar cane and wheat to grow.
-Deforestation is ruining wildlife and communities.
-Feed the ecosystem of temperate forests planes and arid country side.
- Top river in Pakistan used for trading and irrigation.
-Based off the economy not power.
drainage was 450,000 square miles.
died
YELLOW RIVER:
FACTS:
- Seconded longest river in china
- muddiest major river
- river takes in 1.5 billion tons of soil
- supplies `12% of china population
RELIGION:
- Four different Religions
- Taoism Buddhism Islamism and Catholicism
COLOR:
- Yellow river is yellow because of silt in the water
- waves look like chocolate milk
- muddiest river in the world
MAJOR CITIES:
- Lanzhou
- Yunchun
- Hhot
- Zhangzhou
- Jinan
CULTURE:
- AMAZING scenery of the river
- Perfect waves because of coloration
- Huang He River also know as
- Nicknamed Yellow River
- Ancient China call it mother river because of its size
- Many civilizations would not exist in china if it were not for this river
AGRICULTURE:
- only 10% of china's land is fertile enough for crops
- mountain ranges make it hard to grow crops
- frown on hills and some flat grown
- Wheat, rive, peanuts, potatoes, corn, barley tea, apples, oil seed, and cotton
- Rice is most common
- over 300 million farmers
- major part of Chinese way of life
FLOODING:
- Handful of flood from this river
- 1931 flood had the biggest impact of all
- killed an estimated 1-4 million people
GEOGRAPHY:
- two main rivers the yellow and Yangtze
- mountainous country and is difficult to farm
- limited farm equipment
- stretches across china over 2900 miles
TEST TIME.....
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