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nile - grew wheat, barley, vegetables, melons, pomegranates, vines, flax, used it for bread, beer, porridge 3 seasons - akhet, peret,shemu. during the flooding farmers fixed tools. built mu-brick reserviors to trap and hold water. had irrigation canals, had cattle, goats, pigs, ducks, and geese. would be able to sell the surplus then the economy would flourish. most people were farmers. once the flooding stopped they would have to work quickly and efficently to get the crops in the ground. they believed in many religions, wrote in hieroglyphics. menes - first dynasty king, combining upper and lower eygypt. built houses out of mud bricks, pyramids, and used large boats to travel the river. the river would over flow from the water from the mountains. it is the only river that flows north. the sell water the worse it was for the farming. they survive off of the river to get crops and to receive water. tried to build levees and dams, once the levees and dams broke away the houses and crops washed away. when the river changed its course the fields did not get fertilized.
mesopotamia - irrigation was good and bad for the crops, when the water would evaporate and it would leave salts behind, the salt would kill the crops and make the land un fertile. land is know as iraq, syria, turkey, and some of iran.
indus - people that lived on the indus were buddhists of ladahk and the dards of indo-arayn.
yellow river - shang dynasty, it flows through nin provinces of china and empties into teh bahi sea. flooding wiped out civilization. flooding was a major importance to civilization.
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