Tuesday:
Today we had the class time to research about Mesopotamia.
They bury their people with important items from their "before life". The gods decide how the next year goes with how many crops they will grow, etc. They also build social groups and provide them with what they need to survive.
other wise we just looked up notes today.
Sources: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html- Hunting was very popular, especially among Assyrian kings
- Mesopotamian religion was the first religion to be recorded
- They believed that the world was a flat disc.
- Also believed that water covered the entire earth.
- They believed that the universe was born from the enormous sea.
- They bury their people with important items.
- Most people were buried in family graves underneath their houses
- The gods decide each year how the next year is going to go. They also build social groups and provided them with what they needed to survive.
Nile River:
- is located in Africa, and is 4160 miles.
- The Nile provided resources for almost all aspects of life, they traded animal furs. They use boats on the Nile. The people of the Nile River were called Egyptians.
- The people who worked along the river were the lower class. Men wore skirts and robes and women wore skirts and dresses with shoulder straps.
- Religion, main god was the Sun god, but they also have a god named god of the Nile. They believed in life after death, so they preserved people in mummies, so their bodies wouldn't decay.
Yellow River:
- Starts in the middle of China
- Named after the yellow clay, which mixes into the river then it turns it yellow.
- About 3000 miles long and begins in the Bayan Har Mountains
- Lots of people died from floods. About 1600 floods.
- They provide their own crops and livestock instead of trading because of their location.
- Women are unable to own property.
- Family is very important, the father arranges marriages and chose his sons' jobs, and men performed rituals.
- Shang King was their king, he had control the military.
- Yin was the capitol of the Shang dynasty, the dynasty was walled.
Emperors and Kingdoms:
- They started on rivers because of the resources.
- China- Xia dynasty is the first known dynasty, some artwork is left over, they are known for their pottery.
-Shang dynasty- they are known for their bronze work, they liked human sacrifice a lot.
-Western Zhou- they didn't rule all of what was then china.
-Eastern Zhou started to build walls.
- Mesopotamian River Valley
- by the Tigris River
- Babylonian empire: Hammurabi was the king that created the Babylonian Empire
- Neo Babylonian empire: was established in 612 B.C. but was taken over in 539 B.C. by the Roman empire
- Babylon means "gate of gods" and is 55 miles away from Bagdad.
- The Middle Kingdom
-2100 BCE- 1800 BCE
- They had built strong armies to defend themselves.
- The New Kingdom
-Buried their Pharaohs in the Valley of Kings
Indus River Valley
- Located in Southwest Asia
- 3300 B.C to 1900 B.C
- In present day Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and China, it branched out into 7 great rivers and 5 exist today.
- The river provided good soil for crops and means for transportation and trade.
- Used it to irrigate crops and it provided fish and water for the people. water buffalo, pigs, and sheep were raised
- Religion: believed in life after death, worshiped animals, god names are unknown.
- They had 400-600 Indus symbols, clothing was made of cotton and wool, both men and women wore necklaces and bracelets.
- Skilled in pottery, weaving and metalworking
- Cities were set up in perfect grid patterns comparable to that of New York City.
- Harappa- first cities built and abandoned.
- The fall of the Mesopotamian empires, they were known as the Akkadian Empire they fell in 1950 N.C they were attacked by the Amorites.
- Babylonian Empire/ Dynasty, they were over thrown a lot and they were taken over by the Romans.
- End of the Ancient Egypt Empire: along the Nile River, most powerful during the Ramesside Period. Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt until 30 B.C when it fell to the Roman Empire.
- Early Yellow River Valley Civilizations: not much is known about the Shang dynasty and the little that is known is disagreed on by historians. The Zhou clan then became the Zhou Dynasty.
- Indus Valley Civilization, floods destroyed the irrigation system and the buildings.
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