Today we are presenting our class presentations. Our group presented on Mesopotamia.
Nile- Located in Africa. Flows north from East Africa to the Mediterranean for 4184 miles. Longest river in the world. Name came from Neilos, meaning valley. Egyptians settled along the Nile river around 5,000 BC. Started domesticating sheep and goats and practiced agriculture. Irrigated farmland and build a pyramid. Had a civil war. Lived in smaller farm towns and grew crops and domesticated livestock. Built pyramids to bury dead pharaohs. 80 total pyramids. They mummified their pharaohs and put their organs in jars. They were polytheistic, worshiped more than one God. Grew wheat, barley, beans, and cotton in fields. Fruit trees grew well near the river. There were wild crocodiles and many fish in the Nile.
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