The Nile River:
- farming community
- the most important crop was grain
- 3 seasons
- flooding (june-sept)
- growing (oct-feb)
- harvesting (march-may)
- built mud brick reservoirs to trap and hold water
- irrigation canals
- kept cattle, goats, pigs, ducks and geese
- had surplus crops which ment that they were able to sell and the economy would flourish
- had a king, ruling class, craftsman, farmers, and slaves
- deposited the nutrients need for growing food
- believed in many gods - polytheistic
- used hieroglyphics -way of communication
- had pyramids, large boats for travel, and built their houses out of mud bricks
- deserts to the east and west of the nile and mountains to the east
- spring the river would flood water in the mountains
- longest river in the world -4,100 miles
- only river that floods north
- gets lots of its water from mountains, plateaus, and lakes
- deserts to the east and west acted as natural barriers
- very predictable flooding
Early River Civilizations:
Mesopotamia:
- irrigation was good and bad for the civilization
- water felt behind salt, salt would kill crops
- is known as Iraq, Syrvia, Turkey, and Iran
Nile:
- terrible flooding
- tried buillding levees and damns but they broke the clay houses and washed away the crops
- the greeks conquered and the egyptians came back to power
- home to the egyptian empire
Indus:
- river changed course
- floods didnt fertilize the fields so the soil became un fertile
- large monsoon
- people were Buddhist
- river goes to Pakistan, Afghanistan and part of Iran
Yellow:
- flows through nine provinces of China
- flooding wiped out the economy.... civilizations died
*flooding is a major problem for the river civilizations*
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