The Nile- Grew wheat, barley, veggies, big Farming area mainly grew crops. 3-seasons: Akhet-flooding season, Peret-growing season, Shemy-harvesting season. Irragation canals and mud brick reservoirs to hold water. Animals were cattle, goats, pigs.
Economy-Able to sell the srplus and the economy wold flourish.
Culture- Craftsmen people made the tools and weapons. Farmers was mostly this culture.
Agriculture- nile usually needed nutirents for growing food. Grew corn.
Religion was in believing more than one god. Wrote hieroglyphics. buildings and structures were made out of mud bicks. Large baots for travel.
Geography-every spring the water comes from the mountains, plateaus, and lakes and is the longest river, also flows north. IF the water flooded any lower it would leave behind some nasty silk stuff that would'nt grow crops very well.
The nile river caused fertile oil for them to flourish and the economy grew.
How they ended.
Mesopotamia- Irragation was good and bad, water leaves behind salts. salt mad e alnd unfertile. Made up of people from sumer, acadian, bablon. LAnd is know as Iraq, Turkey, Iran.
NIle ended because of the flooding, and the building of leivies did'nt work very well. All the animals were flooded away and the homes were to. River was home of egyptian empire.
Indus-Changed the way it flowed so the fields were not getting fertilization so bad deal. Western banks population is largely
Yellow River- Shang was the power until zhou took over the power.
So the flooding was a prblem for rivers.
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