Beginnings Of Empires
- 7000 years ago
- upper and lower egypt
- complex societies
- nile delta
- Cataract
- Dashur
- China
- Xai Dynasty
- Yu The Great
- Yellow River
- Sargon
- Mesopotamia
- Mass of migrations
- Akkadain
- Sumerian
- Monarchy
- Bronze Age
- Indus
- IVC
- Pakistan and North India
presentations... again....
Indus River
- Harappa
- mud brick platforms
2. literate
3. mohenjo daro
- hill of the dead
4. geography
- good farming soil
- mountainous
- fish farming
5. longest river in Pakistan and Indian subcontinent
6. huge source of drinking water
7. trading... not military
- Mesopotamia
- between the Tigris and Euphrates
- marshy
- Iraq
- fertile land
- mountain
- fertile crescent
- Iraq Syria Lebanon Cyprus Jordan Palestine Kuwait Sinai peninsula
- songs...
- make rulers laugh
- each city given a god
- boxing, wrestling, hunting, polo
- women are considered ready for marriage right after puberty
- annual flood...
- didnt know when to plant
- droughts
- people starved if crops failed
- irrigation canals built
- dams built
- constant warfare
- Babylon
- the riviers flow into persian gulf
- Sumer first settled in 4500 B.C. divided into over a dozen city-states
- Religion
- Eridu
- Bad-Tibira
- Larsa
- Sippar
- Shuruppak
- lack of building materials...
- no wood
- few natural borders
- mud walls for protection
Projects... presentations...
We Go First
Talk to the class not the board
Mesopotamia
Irrigation = good and bad... killed crops by evaporating and leaving salts behind...
sumer babylon acadian assyrian
babylon ended 1600 B.C. Iraq Syria Turkey
Nile
ended due to floods... houses washed away
levees broke
greeks conquered
egyptians came back
Romans conquered
Egyptian empire
1070 BC
Indus
unfertile soil
monsoon
Harappan
Buddhits of ladahk
pashtun baloch and others
iran pakistan afghanistan
yellow
1046BC
Bohai sea
Wei Valley
Flooding wiped out economy
shang.... zhou
Agriculture
levees
heiroglyphs
egypt
Yellow River
Hung He
2nd longest river in china
muddiest major river
changed course1.5 billion tons of soil
1500 floods since 602 B.C.
Taoism, Buddhism, Islamiism, Catholicism...
Waves look like Chocolate milk
silt from deserts
Lanzhou
Yinchan
Hhot
Zhangzhou
Jinan
Magnificent scenery
Breathtaking
Coloration
Mother River because of great size
Civilizations...
Mountains
Crops
Grown on Hills
Wheat Rice Peanuts Potatoes Corn Barley
300 million Farmers
1931 flood = Biggest impact
1-4 million Deaths
Mountainous
Lots of water needed for farming...
2900 miles
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