The Nile- along the nile they grew wheat, barley, vegetables, fig, melons, and vines. they had 3 seasons- akhet or flooding season, peret or growing season and shemu season. they built mud brick reservoirs to trap water. they had irrigation canals. because they had such a surplus of crops they would sell the crops and the economy would flourish. they had a king, ruling class which were advisers, they had craftmen who made the tools and stuff. they had farmers then slaves too. they believed in a polytheistic religion or believing in multiple gods. they wrote using hieroglyphics. they built houses out of mud-brick. these people buried the people with their belongings because they believed in after life.there are deserts on the east and west side of the Nile river. this river flows north. the Nile gets most of its water from mountains, plateaus, and lakes.The Nile river was home to the Egyptians.
Later on the Romans took over the Egyptian empire and the Nile river valley. The Greeks had taken over the Egyptians before but they got power back before they got beat by the Romans. People living in the indu river were Buddhists of ladahk. The Dards of Indo- Aryan. Now a days it goes through places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and part of Iran.The wei valley was one of the first discovered on the yellow river. mesopotamia was made up of people from sumer, akkadian, assyrian, and babylon empires. Today the mesopotamia land is known as Iraq, syria, turkey, and some of Iran.four river valley areas for people to create civilization are- mesopotamin, the nile, indus, and china yellow river.
Yellow river- its the second largest river in china. its known as the muddiest major river. it supplies water to 12% of china. each year the river takes in 1.5 billion tons of soil. they were said to have 4 different kinds of religion. taoism, buddhism, islamism and catholicism. the reason it is yellow is because the river absorbs the silt from deserts around it. ancient china called it the mother river because of its size. only 10% of chinas land is good to grow crops because of all of the mountain ranges. china employs over 300 million farmers in the country. this river stretches to 2900 miles across china.
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