monday august 27,2012

the Nile river

they have 3 seasons

they had irrigation canals

had cattle goats pigs ducks and geese

slaves where paid with beer

grew corn wheat ext.

they wrote using hieroglyphics

use large boats for travel on the rivers

the river is the longest in the world it is 4100 miles long

early river civilizations

irrigation was good and bad good it watered the crops bad is it left the salt on the crops and killed the crops

the Mesopotamia land is now know as Iraq

the floods didn't fertilize the fields so there soils became UN fertilized

flooding is a major problem for the river civilization

that what i learned today

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