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Nile:
Cities/States:
- grew wheat, barley, vegies, fig, melons, etc.
- they had 3 seasons: flooding season, growing season, and harvesting season
- tried to trap as much flood water into canals
- built mud-brick reservoirs to trap and hold water
- irrigation canals
- used shadufs to lift water from the cananls
Economy:
- because of the river the civilizations would have a surplus of crops
Culture:
- the king had special status and was the ruler of the land
- the ruling class was related to or of high importance to the king
- craftsmen made tools and weapons
- belived in many gods
- wrote in hieroglyphics
- built houses out of mud bricks
- used large boats for travel
Agriculture:
- usually deposited the nutrients needed for growing food on top of the soil
Geography:
- deserts east and west of the nile with mountains to the east
- every spring the river would flood from a surphus of water in the mountians
- longest river in the world
- the only river that flows north
- gets it water from mountains, plateaus, lakes in present day burundi
- the deserts acted as natureal barriers between other lands
- the flooding was very predictible
Early River Civilizations:
Mesopotamia:
- irrigation was good and bad
- water would evaporate and leave salt behind
- salt would kill the crop
- the babylonian empire ended around 1600 B.C.
Nile:
- ended because of flooding
- tried building dams
- the houses broke, crops died, and animals were washed away
- was home to the egyptian empire
Indus:
- river changed course
- floods didnt fertilize the feilds so their soil became un fertile
- harappan civilization ended around 1300 B.C.
- the people were buddhists of Ladahk, and Dards of Indo-Aryan
- the river goes through places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and part of Iran
Yellow:
- flows through 9 provinces of China
- flooding wiped out the economy and therefore civilizations died
- Shang was in power until the zhou invaded the capitol
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