Monday, August 27,2012

We started our presentations

Jordan Good, Andrew Watts, Chancey, Robert, and Cody- The Nile River

  • Grew barley, veggies,fig, melons, Pomegranates, vines, and flax
  • Cities- 3 seasons
  • They tried to trap and much water as theu could.
  • They built mud brick reseroirs to trao and wold water
  • Imigration Canals

Economy- The early River valley Civilization woild have a surprise of crops to be able to sell

  • Social structure- ruler of the Land
  • Had special status
  • Female companion also had special status
  • Most people are farmers
  • Agriculture- The Nile usually deposited the nutrients needed for growing food on top
  • Culture- They believed in many gods, they believed humans form and the government 
  • Wrote using hieroglyphics
  • building and structure was made out of mud blocks
  • Pyramids
  • Large boats to travel
  • They are deserts to the east and to the west of the nile, and moutains to the east.
  • Longest river in the world 4,100 miles long
  • Geography- The nile gets its water from the moutains
  • If the river flooded, just a few feet lower than the usual

 

Nate Cave, Caleb Rihner, Trey Lansman, Zach Gross, and Dallon Bendorf- Early River Civilizations

  • Irrigation was good and bad for the civilation
  • Water should sit on field and eleporate and leaves salt behind
  • Mesopotamia- Was made up of people from summer, Acadian, Assyrian, and Babylon Empires
  • Ended in 1600 B.C.
  • Nile- ended because of flooding
  • They broke the clay houses washed away there crops died and there animals were washed away.
  • Indus River- Changed course
  • Floods didn't fertilize the fields ao there soil became un fertile
  • There are large Monsoon
  • People that were living on the Indus were Buddhists of Ladahk
  • Yellow- Shang dynasty ended around 1046 B.C.
  • It flows through nine provinces of China
  • Flooding is a major problem for the river civilizations

 

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