Indus River:
- Harappa Partially built on mud brick, 3 1/2 mil thick brick wall surrounds it
- Leterate people, 2600 - 1700 bc in western part of Asia
- Mohenjo- Daro on civilization to have private bathroom and toilet
- Located in larkana distric
- means " hill of the dead"
- total rain fall 5-20 inches. fertal soil.
- streches across 6 countries. borders mountains and arabian sea.
- Culture.
- modern canals. cotton, sugar cane, and wheat,
- major deforest station, fish farming possible.
- Importance. ]
- feed the ecosystem
- mostly used for trading and irrigation.
- provides keywater resources
- drinking
Mesopotamia:
Greek means "between the rivers"
Combination of Tigris and Euphrates. flows through modern Iraq.
fertile lands bc of seasonal rains.Most of it is made of infertile plains.
Aka fertile crescent.
Culture:
songs written for gods. to make rulers laugh. believed in over 3,000 gods, each city had a certain god.
hinting, boxing and wrestling very popular. girls considered ready for marriage after puberty
Annual flood unpredictable, crops failed people died.Usually between April and June.
6000 BC irrigation canals were made. workers unclogged canals and built damns to hold back flood water.
History: constant warfare. succession of shifting empire.
4500 BC settlements around marshes
Babylon was built along Euphrates.
Sumer "land of civilized lords" 4th millennium Sumer was divided into about a dozen independent city-states.
1st 5
Eridu
Bad- Tibira
Larsa
Sippar
Shuruppak
Resources: no forests, used mud bricks, plaster
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