Nile River:
Geography -the importance of the river and how people worked along the river -culture of that area (name of the people that lived there, religion, etc)- Cities and states that emerged
Culture:
The people of the Nile River were called Egyptians. The Egyptian population lived along both sides of the Nile Valley and in the delta religion. They had dark hair and dark skin. They lived along 3 classes of society: Upper class- Pharaoh and his family, rich landowners, priests and doctors. - Traders, merchants, and craftsmen belonged to the middle class - Unskilled workers belonged to the lower class.
-- Gave women rights - Women could buy and sell land and goods, they could also divorce their husbands.
Clothing-
Men wore skirts and robes and women wore skirts and dresses with shoulder straps.
Most people went barefoot, but the upper class wore sandals.
Women wore make-up and painted their fingernails.
Beliefs:
The Egyptians believed in life after death.
They preserved people in mummies, so their bodies would not decay.
Clothing, foods, and other needed accesories were added into the grave just in case they need these supplies in the afterlife. Pictures of the daily life lived by this person was painted on the walls of the graves.
Today we continued our presentations:
Mesopopatamia - Greek for the land between two rivers-
Trade and Commerce were important between the Tigris and Euphrates river. -Euphrates was the calm river and the Tigris was very aggressive and caused most of the flooding.
-Had about 3,000 Gods.
Lack of resources:
-Few trees
-Very little rainfall
-Traded their surplus for stone, wood and metal.
Then we presented our presentation on the Nile River.
Yellow River
Flows from Central to Eastern China.
Got the color from the yellow clay, "loess"
Areas around the Yellow River and the Yangzte River merge -- great food producing areas.
They had to grow their own crops and livestock in order to supply for themselves considering they couldn't trade because of the mountains.
They believe in supernatural powers and so when they needed something they asked the gods for it.
Family was the most important thing in the Chinese culture - The father was the leader of the family.
Emperors and Kingdoms
Xia Dynasty is known to be the first dynasty in China.
Shang believed in sacrifices.
Mesopotamia - Babylon nation was founded by Samuabum.
--55 miles south of Bagdad.
The new kingdom expanded its borders through military conquest and became a world power.
Indus River Valley-
In present day Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and China.
The river provided good soil for crops and means for transportation.
Worshiped animals.
-Both men and women wore necklaces and finger rings.
Women wore nose and ear rings.
The Decline of the Early River Valley Civilizations:
The fall of the Mesopotamian Empires: The Akkadian Empire fell in 1950 BC
The Babylonian Empire collapsed to the Romans -Nubuchadnezzar was the leader and died.
The end of the Anciet Egpyt Empire - Invaded and conquered by foreign powers.
Early Yellow River Civilizations - The Xia Dynasty was the first ever recorded chinese civilization - they were overrun by the Shang Dynasty.
Indus River Valley
-Constant flooding caused the people to stop taking care of their civilization and crops -- The Aryans invaded and took over.
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