The Nile- Grew wheat, barley, veggies, big Farming area mainly grew crops. 3-seasons: Akhet-flooding season, Peret-growing season, Shemy-harvesting season. Irragation canals and mud brick reservoirs to hold water. Animals were cattle, goats, pigs.
Economy-Able to sell the srplus and the economy wold flourish.
Culture- Craftsmen people made the tools and weapons. Farmers was mostly this culture.
Agriculture- nile usually needed nutirents for growing food. Grew corn.
Religion was in believing more than one god. Wrote hieroglyphics. buildings and structures were made out of mud bicks. Large baots for travel.
Geography-every spring the water comes from the mountains, plateaus, and lakes and is the longest river, also flows north. IF the water flooded any lower it would leave behind some nasty silk stuff that would'nt grow crops very well.
The nile river caused fertile oil for them to flourish and the economy grew.
How they ended.
Mesopotamia- Irragation was good and bad, water leaves behind salts. salt mad e alnd unfertile. Made up of people from sumer, acadian, bablon. LAnd is know as Iraq, Turkey, Iran.
NIle ended because of the flooding, and the building of leivies did'nt work very well. All the animals were flooded away and the homes were to. River was home of egyptian empire.
Indus-Changed the way it flowed so the fields were not getting fertilization so bad deal. Western banks population is largely
Yellow River- Shang was the power until zhou took over the power.
So the flooding was a prblem for rivers.
Harappa was prtially built on mudbrick platforms to protect it from flooding. THey are literate people. Mohenjo -only civilization to have private. Mohejo means the hill of the dead. Geography-rainfall was good for crops so they could grow good crops. Indus river Borders mountains and the Arabian sea. Global warming affects vegatation and wildlife.
Indus river feeds the ecoysystem of temperate forests. Used a lot for irrigation. Used for trading and irrigation. City was governed by trading and not military services.
Mesopatamia: Geography. Mesopatamia in greek means between the rivers. IS made up of hills and has much rainfall which grows crops well.
Also called the fertile crecent. Cultures-hunting and boxing was activity. Irrigation was unpredictable because of having all these floods. Farmers run into not kowing when do plant or just take the lost.
By 6000 B.C irrigation systems were made to hold the water.
Had no wood for resources had build homes out of mud bricks
Harappa was prtially built on mudbrick platforms to protect it from flooding. THey are literate people. Mohenjo -only civilization to have private. Mohejo means the hill of the dead. Geography-rainfall was good for crops so they could grow good crops. Indus river Borders mountains and the Arabian sea. Global warming affects vegatation and wildlife.
Indus river feeds the ecoysystem of temperate forests. Used a lot for irrigation. Used for trading and irrigation. City was governed by trading and not military services.
Mesopatamia: Geography. Mesopatamia in greek means between the rivers. IS made up of hills and has much rainfall which grows crops well.
Also called the fertile crecent. Cultures-hunting and boxing was activity. Irrigation was unpredictable because of having all these floods. Farmers run into not kowing when do plant or just take the lost.
By 6000 B.C irrigation systems were made to hold the water.
Had no wood for resources had build homes out of mud bricks
China( yellow river)
Second largest river in china
Known as the muddiest major river. water supplies 12% of chineses population. !.5 billion tons of soil the yellow river takes in.
Religion- Taoism, Budanism, Islamism and Cathlicism.
The cause of this yellow color of silt from nearby deserts in which the water absorbs and carries.
Muddiest river.
Major cities- Lanzhou, Yinchan, Hhot, zhafnou, Xian.
Tourist enjoy learning about how it flows.
Coloration it makes as waves explode against ach other.
Yellow river was known as Huang He river. Named because of the color of water. Ancient China called it mother river because of great size.
Civilizations would not exist if this river was not around.
Agriculture- 10% of chinas land is fertile because the the reasoning of the Mountains. Grow rice on the Big hills. Major crops are peanuts, corn, barley, cotton, rice. China employs many farmers.
Only have been handful of floods, 1931 floods killed 1 million.
Geography-Ancient china was built two main rivers, Yangtz in south and yellow river in the north.
2900 miles streched over china.
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