Mesopotamia
-irrigation was good and bad for the civilization.
-The water would sit on the field and evaporate and leave salts behind.
-The salt on the field would ill the crop and make the land unfertile
-So they wouldn't have enough food for the civilization
-People from Sumer, Arcadian, Assyrian, and Babylon empires
-Babylonian empire ended around 160o B.C.
-Today Mesopotamia is made up of eastern Europe
Nile
-Flooding ended the Nile. Levies broke and wash away communities
-Greeks took over the Egyptians who regained power then the Romans took them over.
-1070 B.C. the Romans took over Nile River civilization
Indus
- River changed course.
-The fields became infertile because of lack of water.
-There was also a large monsoon.
-The Herappan civilization ended around 1300 B.C.
-The people were Buddhists of Ladahk, and the Dards of Indo aryan.
Yellow River
- The shang dynasty ended around 1046 B.C.
-Flows through 9 provinces of china.
-Flooding wiped out economy.
-Shang was in power until
The flooding helped because it made the soil fertile but yet if it got too out of control it wiped out civilizations.
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