indus - built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding, people know how to read and write, only civilization to have private bathrooms, total rain fall is between 5-20 inches, it stretches across six countries, animals were an important part of the culture, it is mostly used for trading and irrigation, governed by trading not by military. people that lived on the indus were buddhists of ladahk and the dards of indo-arayn
Mesopotamia - it is the ombining of the tigris and euphrates rivers, land is fertile due to seasonal rains, also called the fertile crescent, hinting was very popular as well as boxing and wrestling, each city was given a certain god, most girls were bought up from childhood to learn the traditional roles of wife, mother housekeepers, flooding was unpredictable, farmers didn't know when to plant or when the flood would be many droughts would make the water level lower, canals were made to carry water from the river to the fields, build dams to hold back flood waters, first 5 city and states - eridu, bad-tibira, larsa, sippar, shuruppak, mud-bricks ere used to build bricks plaster, which crumbled easily making it easy to break into. irrigation was good and bad for the crops, when the water would evaporate and it would leave salts behind, the salt would kill the crops and make the land un fertile. land is know as iraq, syria, turkey, and some of iran.
nile - grew wheat, barley, vegetables, melons, pomegranates, vines, flax, used it for bread, beer, porridge 3 seasons - akhet, peret,shemu. during the flooding farmers fixed tools. built mu-brick reserviors to trap and hold water. had irrigation canals, had cattle, goats, pigs, ducks, and geese. would be able to sell the surplus then the economy would flourish. most people were farmers. once the flooding stopped they would have to work quickly and efficently to get the crops in the ground. they believed in many religions, wrote in hieroglyphics. menes - first dynasty king, combining upper and lower egypt. built houses out of mud bricks, pyramids, and used large boats to travel the river. the river would over flow from the water from the mountains. it is the only river that flows north. the sell water the worse it was for the farming. they survive off of the river to get crops and to receive water. tried to build levees and dams, once the levees and dams broke away the houses and crops washed away. when the river changed its course the fields did not get fertilized.
yellow river - shang dynasty, it flows through nin provinces of china and empties into teh bahi sea. flooding wiped out civilization. flooding was a major importance to civilization. second largest river in china. each year the river takes in i.5 million tons of soil. four kinds of religion taoism, buddhism, islamism, and catholicism. worlds muddiest river. some say that the waves look like chocolate milk. major cities kanzhou, hhot, yinchun, zhangxhou, jinan. tourists like to go here because of the landscape and attraction and breathtaking cenary, they called the river the mother river for its great size. if were not for this river many civilizations wouldnt be here. on 10% is fertil and well enough to grow crops. most crops are grown on a hill. major crops are wheat rice, peanuts, potatoes, corn, barley, tea, apples. the 1931 flood was the biggest impact. it killed an estimated 1 billion. rice is the main crop. not all farm equipment can be used because of the a mount of water. river stretches over 2900 miles
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