On this day we continued presentations. Here are the notes I took:
Indus River: Harappa, 3 1/2 mile thick brick wall surrounding them. People planted a wide variety of crops. Literate. Flourished from 2600-1700 B.C.
Mojenjo-Daro: Only civilization with a bathroom and toilet in each house. Lived on simple form of agriculture. Largest city. Means The Hill of the Dead.
Geography: Average rainfall is 5-20 inches per year. Current day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan. Near the Arabian Sea.
Culture: Crops include cotton, sugar cane, and wheat. Global warming and pollution effect the agriculture.
Importance: Feeds the ecosystem. Longest and most important river in Pakistan and on the Indian sub continent. Trading and irrigation. Key water source for Pakistan. Lots of drinking water. Drainage area is 450,000 square miles.
Mesopotamia
Geography: Means between the rivers in Greek. Combining of Tigris and Euphrates River through modern Iraq. Made up of hills and plains, with fertile land. Some marshy areas as well. AKA The Fertile Crescent. Current day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, the Sinai Peninsula, and Northern Mesopotamia.
Culture: Songs written for gods and events. Believed in over 3000 gods. Hunting, boxing, and wrestling were popular with these people, as well as a strange version of polo. Women were married in the mid-teens rather than eighteen.
Irrigation: Flood was unpredictable, usually between April and June. Droughts were common. By 6000 B.C. they developed canals to water fields. Dams were built to hold the water back.
History: Characterized by constant warfare and shifting empire. Babylon was built along the Euphrates. The two rivers flow into the Persian Gulf.
Cities: Sumer- Land of civilized lords. First settled in 4500 B.C. Each village or town would have a temple for the city's god or goddess. First five city states were Eridu, Bad-Tibira, Larsa, Sippar, and Shuruppak.
Resources: No forests and had no building materials. Used mud for bricks and plaster. Few mountains, were easily conquered.
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