the river would flood each year leaving the Egyptions with fertile land starts in july into november
The Nile streches halfay across africa
Source world history book
Nile gets its water from distan mountains, plateaus, and lakes in present-day Burundim Tanzania, Uganda, and Etheopia. If the fludwaters were to be just a few feet lower than normal it would leave behind a considerably lowere amount of fertile soil or silt
deserts on either side acted as natural barriers between other lands
The niles flooding was very predictable
Mesopotamia
irrigation good and bad
water would sit on the field and evoporate and leave salt behing kill crops and leave unfertil land behind
mesopotamia made up of people from sumer Acadian Assyrian And Babylon empires
today is iraq, Syria Turkey and soe of Iran
babylonian mpire ended around 1600 BC
eded because of flooding
tried to build levees and dams
failed
mass flooding-Aryan
western banks the populatin is largely Pashtu n, Balock and other Iranic stock
now the river goes through places like Pakistan
greeks conquered thme and the egyptiona came back to power and the romans took over from there
nile was home to the Egyptian Empire
Romans took over but the Egyptians gained control again
Indus
river changed cource floods didn't fertilize the
large nonsoon
Harappan civilization ended around 1300 B.C.
people living fthere were buddhist of ladahk and the Dards of Indo
Yellow river was the Shang dynasty
flows through nine provines of china
Wei Valley is the birtghplae of many Chinese civilizations
Shang was in power until the Shou invaded the capitol
ndus River
city states Harappa partially built on bud-brick platforms to protect form flooding
both lived in brick houses and many had three floors
people of Harappa planted a wide variety of crops
they aree literate people
Mohenjo-Daro
only civilization th have a private bathroom
located in the larkana distric of dindh, pakistan
larges city n the acient indus vally
citizens fo lived on a simple farm means hhe hill of the dead
Geography
total rain fall 5-20 inches
soil is good for farming
stretches across isix countries
ti borders mountains and the Arabian Sea
total lengt of the river is 1,976 miles
Culture
constructin of modern canal allows cotton sugar can and wheat
matjor defoerest sstation pollution
Indus River fees the ecosystem of temperate forests planes and arid country side
longest and most important river in Pakistan and on the Indian Sub continett
used for traidi gn and irrigation
provides key lwater resources for Pakistan
governed by trading not military might governed around trading not around military power
Mesopotamia
means between teh rivers in greek
joining of tigres an euphrates
land very fertile due to rain andn rivers and streams flowing from the mountain
southern is make up of marshy areas nd wide flat infertile plains
also called the fertile cresent
Iraq, Syria Lebanon Cyprus Jordan Palestine Kuqait the Sinai Peninsula Norher Mesopotamia
culture
songs were written for the gods
music was to make rulers laugh
each city had a god
hunting was popular
women rarely acted as indiiduals
most brought up to be wife, mother, and housekeeper
women are condidered ready fo rmarriage right after puberty
irrigation
annual floood unpredictable
farmers didn
t know when to plant or how much flooding would ensue
many droughts
hart to water crops when this happens
6000 bc irrigation canal were made
workers unclogged canals and built dams to hold back flood waters
history
characterized by constant warfare and sucession of shifting empire
flow into the Persian Gulf
Babylon capital of the ancient Mesopotamia
cities
often ruled by a king or governor intimately tied the the religious views
Eridu Bad-Ibira Larsa Sippar Shuruppak
no forest for wood
used mud for bricks plater crumbled easily
few mountains
built mud walls around villages for protection
the beginning of the empires
settlement began around 7000 years ago
gradually developed into more and more complex
split into two groups lower and upper Egypt
lower Egypt is the Nile Delta north of Dahshur
upper is the cataract region downriver from Sudan
China Yellow River
said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization
first dynasy of China was the Xia dynasty
ruled from 2205 to 1766 B.C.
established by Yu the great
Mesopotamia
Sargon founded the Akkadian dynasty first empire of Mesopotamia
Language was Akkadain and Sumerian
religion was Sumerian and that means mythology, pantheon, rites, and cosmology of the Sumerian civilization
had a monarchy
Indus River
IVC was a Bronze age civilization
also Harappan
went across Pakistan and northwest India
more than 500 Harappan sites have beed discovered along the dried up river beds Ghaggar-Hakra River
the Indus River only had about 100 sites
Yellow River
seond longest river in china
known as the worlds muddiest major river
supplies 12 percent of chinas population with water
takes in 1.5 billion tons of soil per year
Religion
Taoism , Buddhism, Islamism, and Catholicism
cause of the yellow color is due to silt from nearby deserts in which the water absorbs and carries
major cities around the river
Lanzhou
Yinchun
Hhot
Zhangzhou
Jinan
culture
originally Huang He River
ancient China called it he Mother River due to its great size
many civilizations would not exist without the river today
agriculture
10 percent of the land in China is fertile
crops mainly grown on hills
mojor crps are wheat rice peanuts potatoes corn barley tea apples oilseed
1931 flood had biggest impact
killed 1 to 4 million people
not many floods
geography
two main rivers
Yangtze adn tellow River
rice needs a great amount of water to grow properly there is limited farm equipment athat can be used because of this great amount of water
river stretches across china for over 2,900 miles
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