Nile River Valley- in northern africa, the 4000+ mile Nile runs through Sudan, and Egypt. the river is used for transportation, as well as sending goods and building materials from the south to the north. the economy was based off of farming, and they worshiped many gods. the Egyptians built the pyramids, and they traveled on large boats.
early river kingdoms and empires-
Mesopotamia- the Babylonian empire.
-the most powerful state in the ancient world.
-capitol- Babylon
-Occupied most of the middle east reigon.
-ran through the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
-the death penalty was used fluidly
-Pharaoh Narmer was the one to reunite the two Egyptian Kingdoms.
-Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy was the founder of the second dynasty in Egypt.
_Djoser was the son of Hotepsekhemwy, and also the first in the line of the third dynasty.
-harming a cat would get you killed
Indus-
-two major cities- Harappa, and Mohenjo-Daro
-inhabitants were unknown
-Cities had strong government and their technology was great for the time.
-their written language is still undeciphered.
Yellow River (China)
- Shang Dynasty
-built many palaces and tombs
-Capital- Anyang
-language- old Chinese
-Gov't- Monarchy
-Fought with many of the surrounding settlements, and nomadic travelers.
Mesopotamia.
-commonly thought of as an empire, Mesopotamia is a region.
-Uruk was one of the first cities. contained 50k-80k people. largest in the world at the time.
-Nippur was concidered one of the more sacred places. they worshiped the sumerian god Enlil, ruler of the Cosmos
-Nineveh was founded 1000 years before the two prior cities. worshiped Ishtar in the first temple that was destroyed by an earthquake.
-the rivers in this region were the Tigris and the Euphrates
-mainly desert in the north with marshes and mudflats in the south.
-trade was based off of domestic animals, wine, donkeys, gemstones, camels pottery and horses.
-script was cuneiform. it looks like hieroglyphs but much more complex
-they used the first 60-based number system and invented the wheel.
-they believed that the earth was a flat disc that was surrounded by water.
-played activities like hunting, wrestling, polo with another person instead of a horse
-Government was a monarchy, and created the first code of law, and was eventually broken up into a city-state system.
-Indus
-indus means the father of rivers
-north of the Himalayas
-they had many natural mountains and valleys to protect them
-people were born into their social classes
-when children grew up, they took their parents job
-Harappa was one of the biggest and first of the indus cities.
-Mohenjo-daro was a city divided in two. not much is know of the upper half, but the lower half was called the citadel.
Yellow River Valley.
- in the eastern asian area...
- people needed high walls because war was constantly waged.
- it's called the yellow river for the great deposits of yellow silt in the river
- it contains the only other loess hills region other than the midwest in the United States.
- they call the river the mother river.
- it supplies the locals with as much fresh water as they need
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