thursday August 30th 2012

nile river. they grew wheat barley vegatables melons

Economy: because of the nile river the early river valley civilizations would have a surplus of crops.

Culture- buildings, built houses, pyramids and large bouts for travel

HArappa: partially built on mud brick ato protect it from flooding

Mohenjo-Daro: only civilization to have a private bathrooom and toilet in each house.

after the river flooded it would leave low amount of fertile soil or silt it was bad for the farming.

Mesopatamia: in greek mean between the rivers. also called the fertile Crescent includes Iraq, syria, cyprus, jordan, palestine, kuwait, the sinai peninsula and northern  mesopatamia

annual flood was unpreidictable.

Nile river: settlements began around 7000 years ago. the yellow river was said to be cradle of chinese civilizations. Akkadains language was Akkadain and Sumerian. Indus river was a bronze age civilization. there really was no empire

Yellow river: second largest river in china. worlds muddiest major river.

Religion: ancient china is said to have four different kinds of religion. Taoism, nuddism,islanism, catholicism

major cities: Lanzhou, yinchun, Hhot,zhangzhou,jinan.

only 10% of chinas land is fertile and well enough to grow good crops

 

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