presentations... again....
Indus River
- Harappa
- mud brick platforms
2. literate
3. mohenjo daro
- hill of the dead
4. geography
- good farming soil
- mountainous
- fish farming
5. longest river in Pakistan and Indian subcontinent
6. huge source of drinking water
7. trading... not military
- Mesopotamia
- between the Tigris and Euphrates
- marshy
- Iraq
- fertile land
- mountain
- fertile crescent
- Iraq Syria Lebanon Cyprus Jordan Palestine Kuwait Sinai peninsula
- songs...
- make rulers laugh
- each city given a god
- boxing, wrestling, hunting, polo
- women are considered ready for marriage right after puberty
- annual flood...
- didnt know when to plant
- droughts
- people starved if crops failed
- irrigation canals built
- dams built
- constant warfare
- Babylon
- the riviers flow into persian gulf
- Sumer first settled in 4500 B.C. divided into over a dozen city-states
- Religion
- Eridu
- Bad-Tibira
- Larsa
- Sippar
- Shuruppak
- lack of building materials...
- no wood
- few natural borders
- mud walls for protection
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