Nile River Valley- located in Afarica and goes through Egypt, longest river in the world 4,150mi and runs north to south, used for travel and farming, floods every year from July to November and gave the farmers new soil and washed away the waste, they used ox to pull ploughs they grew many veggies such as leeks, barley, and wheat, they used sicles to harvest the grain and then tie it into bundles, used animals for their hides, milk, meat, and to help with farming, they build pyramids and the ecmony depended mostly on the farmers, the social structure was 1.king 2.ruling class 3.craftsman 4.farmers 5.marginalized groups(middle class) 6.slaves,
The Early River Valley Civilizations-
1. Mesopotamian Babylonian Empire was the most powerful state in the anichent world, had most fertle ground, jews where there for 70 years, Babylon means gate of the gods, was in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates river, coverd a area of 8,000 square miles
2. The Nile the first Dynasty 3100B.C. to 2890B.C., capital was memphis, founded by the Egyptian pharroh Narmer he ruled 2 kingdoms of egypt, the second dynasty lasted to 2890B.C. to 2686B.C., the capital was thinis, hotepsekhemwy was the founder of this second dynasty, the pharaoh was Khasekhemwy he got married and that ended the second dynasty but strenghted the unity of the 2 kingdoms, Khasekhemwy had a son Djoser and was the first pharoh of the third dynasty and started a new kingdom period in egypt,
3. The Indus arose about 2500B.C., had 2 major cities Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, they where in advanced in technology, had a sanatation system, had a written langauge but we cant figure out what it means
4. The Yellow River Civilization in China 1600B.C to 1046B.C., was known as the shang dynasty, they defeated the shyah dyansty to come to be, left many written rules and and documents, the capital was ayang, they fought alot of wars aginst the nomadic people, they honored spirts and their ancestors, Shang Tang was the last leader and he killed himself when his army lost in battle and then the dyansty collpased
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