Jordan Good, Andrew Watts, Chancey, Robert, and Cody- The Nile River
- Grew barley, veggies,fig, melons, Pomegranates, vines, and flax
- Cities- 3 seasons
- They tried to trap and much water as theu could.
- They built mud brick reseroirs to trao and wold water
- Imigration Canals
Economy- The early River valley Civilization woild have a surprise of crops to be able to sell
- Social structure- ruler of the Land
- Had special status
- Female companion also had special status
- Most people are farmers
- Agriculture- The Nile usually deposited the nutrients needed for growing food on top
- Culture- They believed in many gods, they believed humans form and the government
- Wrote using hieroglyphics
- building and structure was made out of mud blocks
- Pyramids
- Large boats to travel
- They are deserts to the east and to the west of the nile, and moutains to the east.
- Longest river in the world 4,100 miles long
- Geography- The nile gets its water from the moutains
- If the river flooded, just a few feet lower than the usual
Nate Cave, Caleb Rihner, Trey Lansman, Zach Gross, and Dallon Bendorf- Early River Civilizations
- Irrigation was good and bad for the civilation
- Water should sit on field and eleporate and leaves salt behind
- Mesopotamia- Was made up of people from summer, Acadian, Assyrian, and Babylon Empires
- Ended in 1600 B.C.
- Nile- ended because of flooding
- They broke the clay houses washed away there crops died and there animals were washed away.
- Indus River- Changed course
- Floods didn't fertilize the fields ao there soil became un fertile
- There are large Monsoon
- People that were living on the Indus were Buddhists of Ladahk
- Yellow- Shang dynasty ended around 1046 B.C.
- It flows through nine provinces of China
- Flooding is a major problem for the river civilizations
Indus- the river changed course. floods didn't fertilize the fields so the soil became unfertile. The Harappan civilization ended around 1300 B.C. The Indus River goes through places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and part of Iran.
Indus River
- Located between India and Pakastan
- Rural culture - relied on their overabundance of crops
- very religious
- built things with copper or stone to mark who lived in the houses
- 2600 to 1900 BCE the Harappan lived along the river valley
- over 1000 cities and villages
- very skilled in making bronze, tin, and copper
- the group started to decline when trade when down after a drought
- the water provided trading, irrigation for crops, and there were many silt deposits
- provided water to Pakistan now in the present
- home of the fresh water dolphins
- you can drink the water
- they built many things to try and prevent the cities from ever being flooded
- City Kalibangan is known as Black Bangles
- many people had a hard time finding clean water
- first to use cotton for their clothing
- 1st to have plumbing
Yellow- The Shang Dyasty ended around 1046 B.C. It flows through nine provinces of china and empties into the bohai sea.
Geography- mesopotamia means "between the rivers" It is combining the Tigris and Euphrates river and flows throuh modern Iraq. Mesopotamia is also called the fertile crescent.
Culture- Mesopotamians believed in over 3,000 gods. Women are ready for marriage right after puberty. Irrigation: Farmers had a hard time knowing when to plant or how big a flood would be.
5 city/states- Eridu, Bod-Tibira, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak. Mesopotamia had no forests for wood and lacked building materials.
Beginning of empires--Nile: Settlements began around 7000 years ago. Settlements gradually developed into more and more complex societies. Lower Egypt is the name to the NIle Delta north of Dashur.
China Yellow River: Was said to be the cradle of chinese civilization. The first dynasty of China was the Xia dynasty. Xia dynasty ruled from 2205-1766 bc.
Mesopotamia: They had a Monarchy government. Their language was Akkadain and Sumerian.
Indus River: The IVC was a Bronze age Civilization (3300-1300) BCE. There was no empire around the Indus River. The IVC is also known as the Harappan Civilization.
Importance:
- Longest and most important river in Pakistan and on the Indian subcontinent.
- Total length of river is 1988 miles.
- http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/waterbowls/connect/body.php?id=10
- provides key water resources for Pakistan.
- river feeds the ecosystem of temperate forests, plains, and arid countryside
- mostly used for trading and irrigation - City was governed by trading and not military might.
- http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/waterbowls/connect/body.php?id=10
What needs to be covered:
The geography of the area. The importance of the river on the area.
City-states that emerged
Cities: harappa, mohanjo-daro,
Harappa- Partially built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding. A three and a half mile long thick brick wall surrounded it.
Harappa flourished around 2600 to 1700 BCE in the western part of Asia.
Mojen-daro: Until the 19th and 20th centuries, Mojen-daro was the ony civilization to have a private bathroom and toilet in each house.
The culture
Indus River Valley civilization states are: Jammu and Kashmir.
Yellow River- second largest river in China. known as the muddest river. supplies 12% of Chinese population. Takes in 1.5 billion tons of soil. Since 602 B.C. the river has changed 26 times. Religion- said to have four different languages. Tacism, Buddhism, Islamism and Catholicism. The cause of the yellow color is because of silt from nearby deserts in which the water absorbs and carries. Some say the waves look like chocolate milk. 5 major cities: Lanzhou, Yinchon, Hhot, Zhangzhou, Jinan. Culture- River was originally known as the (Huang He River). It got nicknamed the yellow because of the color the water looked like. Ancient China called it the Mother River because of its great size. Without this River, many civilizations would not exist. Agriculture- Only 10% of Chinas land is fertile and well enough to grow good crops. major crops are wheat, rice, peanuts, potatoes, apples, and cotton. China employs over 300 million farmers. Rice is the main crop and needs a great amount of rain to grow properly. There has only been a handful of floods. The 1931 flood killed an estimated 1 million to 4 million people. Anchient China was built along two main rivers, the Yangtze in the south and the Yellow River in the North. China is a very mountainous country and is difficult to farm. The river stretches across China for over 2900 miles.
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