We started the presentions today but we didnt go today
We also talked about the start of WWll
The Nile River:
Grew wheat, grain, beer, bread, lettuce, fruit trees
3 seasons:
Akhet- flooding season
Peret- Growing season
Shemu- Harvesting season
bulit mud-brick reservoirs to trap and hold water
used Shadufs to life water from the canals
cattle, goats, pigs, ducks
Had a surplus of crops because of the Nile so the economy would flourish
Social status:
King- ruler
Ruling class- high importance to the king
Craftmen- made tools and weapons
Farmers- common man
Slaves- paid in beer
Agriculture:
Nile deposited the nutrients for growing food
Culture:
Religion- Polytheistic religion or believing in multiple gods
Wrote using Hieroglyphics
Buildings and structures:
Bulit houses out of mud bricks, Pyramids, large boats for travel, Rigid structures
Geography:
Deserts to the East and West of the Nile and mountains to the east
Every spring the river would flood because of the surplus of water in the mountains
Only river that flows north
Nile gets a lot of water fromt the mountains and plateaus
the deserts to the east and west acted a natural barriers between the other lands
The flooding of the Nile was very predictable
Conclusion:
Gods were in human form, economy was based on the flooding of the Nile.
The ending of the Kindoms
Mesoptamia:
Irrgation was good and bad for the civilization
Water would leave salt behind
Babylonian empire ended around 1600 B.C.
Nile:
Ended because of the flooding
Egyptians had control then the Greeks then the Egyptians again and finally the Romans
Was home to the Egyptian Empire till the Romans took control around 1700 B.C.
Indus:
Ended around 1300 B.C.
Floods didnt fertilzed the soil
People on the Indus were Buddhists of Ladahk
Yellow River:
Ended around 1046 B.C.
Flows through 9 provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea
Wei Valley is the birthplace of many Chinesse civilizations
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