Nile River valley - located in Africa, Longest river in the world.
Importance of the river, floods every year, important because it brought new soil to the Egyptians.
River worked, used for transportation, and the valley contains, limestone and other building materials.
Farming - They used hand soughs, used goats and other animals to walk on the ground to flatten the ground out.
Harvest - from march to may - used sickles to cut the grain. Wheat, Barley, and flax linen.
Harvested fruits and vegetables
Culture of the area - religion - Polytheistic, multiple gods, traveled on large boats, economy depended on farmers.
Social Structures -King, ruling class, craftsmen, Farmers, Marginalized groups, Slaves.
Conclusion - Nile was necessary for life and travel and goods.
Early river civilizations Kingdom and Empires.
Babylon - Very powerful, very fertile land, Jews were held captive there for 70 years.
Very long and narrow it was 40 miles wide and about 8,000 square feet.
First Nile Dynasty - 3100 BC - 2890 BC, the first dynasty was formed in the lower part of Egypt.
Pharaoh Narmer Was known for reuniting the two kingdoms of Egypt. There was no definite ending of the Nile Dynasty.
Second Nile Dynasty - 2890 BC - 2686 BC, The marriage of Khasekemwy and Nemathap strengthened the unity of upper and lower Egypt, because Nemathap was from lower Egypt.
Their son, was the first pharaoh of the third dynasty.
Indus empire - Didn't really have an empire, arose about 2500 BC. there have been about 1056 settlements found.
Don't know who the developers of the civilization was, had a written language but its unknown
China - Shang Dynasty - Formed 1600 BC - 1046 BC
Government was a monarchy, was based on hunting, agriculture, and animal care, fought many wars with neighboring settlements.
Indus - The religion is uncertain, people were born into social classes. Those classes never changed.
Women were valued. Highly organized agriculture, trade was a big part of it.
Harappa - one of the biggest cities in the Indus.
Yellow river - rich people lived in framed houses
Shang people needed walled cities because they constantly are waging war.
why its called the yellow river is because it deposits a yellow silt.
only 10% of China's land is fertile for farming.
They also could not trade with the outsiders.
They called the yellow river the Mother River.
The yellow river is important because it supplies the people with water supplies. Without the Yellow river the grasslands would shrink.
The fall of the empires.
many arose in the early years but also many of them didn't make it through.
Fall of the Mesopotamia
Fall of the Assyrian Empire ended in 612BC
Babylon was invaded by the Persians and merged together and became known as the Persian Babylonia
The fall of the Persian Empire was the Alexander the Great around 332 BC
Became a part of the Greek Seleucid Empire
Nile river valley fall Slowly and eventually the Egyptian empire took over the Nubia, and Egypt still exists today.
Indus - no one really knows how the Empire ended, one assumption is that the river flooded and destroyed food and spread out disease.
The fall of the Yellow river was blamed by there last king who fell in love with a woman and became a tyrant
And the people rebelled against him.
Th shang dynasty ende when King Zhou killed his son and his ministers.
The empires either fell to other dynasty/empires or the were absorbed into other dynasty/empires.
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