1st powerpoint - the nile river
*city-states barely had any food to plant.
*3 seasons- Akhet, Peret, and Shemu. flooding, growing, and harvesting.
* built mud brick resevoirs to trap and hold water.
*pesents hunted for the rich.
*Economy- because of the nile river the early river valley would have surplus of crops.
* Culture- Solcial structure- King, ruling class, craftesmen, farmers, and slaves. Religion- polytheisyic religion or believing in multiple gods. Wrote using hieroglyphics.
longest river- 4,100 miles in length.
* geography- nile goes throught lakines in Burundi, TAnzania, uganda, and ethiopia. The flooding of the nile was very predictable.
2nd powerpoint- Early River Civilizations
*Mesopotamia- today made up of iraq, syria, turkey, iran.
*Nile- ended because of terrible floods. Tried building leaves and dams. Home to Egyptian Empire.
*Indus- River changed the course. Floods didn't fertilize the fields so there soild unfertile. There also was a large monsoon. Ended around 1300 B.C.
* Yellow- Shang dynasty ended around 1046B.C. Flows through nine provinces of china.
3rd presentation- Indus
*city-states- harappa. built on mud- brick plat forms to protect if from flooding.
they are literate people- kno how to read and write.
Mohenjo-Daro- only civilization to have a private bathroom in each house. means hill of the dead.
Geography- total rain fall was between 5-20 inches. streches across 6 countries. borders mountains and arabian sea. total length of the river is 1976.
culture-major deforest station.
inportance the river feed the ecosytem.
4th powerpoint- The begining of the Empires
*Nile river- settlements began round 7000 years ago. 3000 to 2500 years ago Narmer- leader of powerful upper kingdom.
*China Yellow River- river cradle of chinese civilization.
* Mesopotamia- Akkadain- language was akkadain and sumerian. Had monarchy goverment.
*Indus river- civilized in 3300-1300 BCE. According to some achaeologist more than 500 sites have been discovered.
5th powerpoint- Yellow River. Also known as the Hungan River. Second longest river in china. known as the muddiest. produced more than 1500 floods. Each year river takes in 1.5 billion tons of soil. Supply 12% of chinese.
Religion. 4 types of reliogn. Taoism, Buddhism, Islanism and Catholicism.
Color- Cuase of the river is from silt from deserts, muddiest river, looks like chocolate milk.
MAyjor Cities- Lanzhou, Yinchun, Hhot, Zhngzhou, Jinan.
Culture- Tourist enjoy the magificent sceneryry. Yellow river was known as the Hunang He river. Ancient china called it the mother river because of the size. Because of the river, many civilizations wouldn't exist in this world we know today.
Agriculture- Only 10% of china land is fertile and well enough to grow crops. Manyly grown on hills. Major crops are wheat, rice, peanuts, potatoes, tea, apples, oil seeds, and cotton, and corn. Rice is the most common.
Flooding- had been a mayjor floods. In 1931 flood had biggest impact of all of them. over 1 million to 4 million people were killed.
Geography- China was built along two main rivers, the yangtze in south, and yellow river in the north. the river stretches across china for over 2900 miles.
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