Project Presentation Awareness Day. Woot.
Mesopotamia River: The Land Between Two Rivers.
*Babylon
*Tigris and Euphrates River join together to flow into the Persian gulf.
*First ever civilization ye.
*Relied heavily upon floods for fertile soil.
*Snow melts and fills the river in (Iraq) this area
*Used for transportation
*Sumerians and Akkadians: they believed in more than 3,000 gods.
*Cuneiform script to write
*Wrote songs
*Schooling was only for royal children, sons of the rich, or sons of the professionals.
*Lots of art
*They liked to fight.
*Located in the geographic region referred to Fertile Crescent
*300 miles long, 150 miles wide
*Modern day Iraq.
*Land is fertile with seasonal rains, Southern Mesopotamia land is flat and barren.
*Sargon, from Akkad was a powerful leader in 2350 BC.
*Akkadian Empire in the city of Akkad. It had the Fertile Crescent, the most fertile place.
*Ancient empire Babylonian Empire was on the Euphrates River.
*Evidence shows that the Akkadian empire ended abruptly around 4170 (150 calender year) BP.
*Severe drought, thus ending the empire.
*Babylonian Empire was strong until they adopted the culture of city dwellers. The Persians captured the Babylonian empire in 539 BC. Through generations the tribal customs were lost. New comers had new views on war and how to live.
Nile River yo.
*Flows north out of the mountains. Woot.
*Flows through egypt, sudan, uganda, ethiopia, zaire, kenya, tanzania, rwanda, brundi.
*Four thousand miles long.
*Most of these towns are along the nile for water supply.
*Egyptians settled along the Nile around 5,000 BC.
*4,000 BC they started domesticating sheep and stuff.
*3,000 BC they began irrigation
*2,660 BC they built their first pyramid.
*Smaller farm towns.
*They built pyramids to bury dead Pharaohs.
*The tallest is as tall as the Washington Monument.
*80 pyramids in all.
*Mummification and canned organs. Yum?
*They were polytheistic- meaning they worship more than one god. The Pharaoh is their main god. They believe in the after life.
*They grew wheat, barley, beans and cotton.
*Grew onions, leaks, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, and figs. They also had fruit trees. Along with vine plants.
*Wild crocodiles and fish in the Nile.
*Domestic geese, cows, sheep, ducks, goats, pigs, and cats.
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