Today we started our power points. The Mesopotamia group went first, then The Nile River group went, and we are starting our power point tomorrow.
Mesopotamia-some of the states are Umma, Lagash, Ur, Kish, Uruk, Babylon, Tigris river and Euphrates river, water comes from melting snow, also used for irrigation for crops, Sumerians and Akkadians, believed in 3000 gods, schooling was for rich people, hunting, boxing, and wrestling were popular sports, known as the land between two rivers, fertile land with seasonal rains, temps can reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit, Sargon was a powerful leader from Akkad, most fertile place on the globe, collapsed in 2154 BC Persians captured the Babylonian empire in 539 BC.
The Nile-located in Africa, flows North from East Africa to the Mediterranean for 4,184 miles, flows through several cities, longest river in the world, Greek word Neilos, lots of towns have water supply, Egyptians settled around 5000 BC, 3000 BC began irrigation to grow plants, 2660 BC they built their first pyramid, built pyramids to bury the dead Pharaohs, 80 total pyramids, mummified their Pharaohs to protect them, had multiple gods, they believe in life after death, wheat, barley, beans, cotton, fruits, and vegetables, wild crocodiles, many fish, they had cats killed the rodents.
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