Project Presentation Awareness Day. Woot.
Mesopotamia River: The Land Between Two Rivers.
*Babylon
*Tigris and Euphrates River join together to flow into the Persian gulf.
*First ever civilization ye.
*Relied heavily upon floods for fertile soil.
*Snow melts and fills the river in (Iraq) this area
*Used for transportation
*Sumerians and Akkadians: they believed in more than 3,000 gods.
*Cuneiform script to write
*Wrote songs
*Schooling was only for royal children, sons of the rich, or sons of the professionals.
*Lots of art
*They liked to fight.
*Located in the geographic region referred to Fertile Crescent
*300 miles long, 150 miles wide
*Modern day Iraq.
*Land is fertile with seasonal rains, Southern Mesopotamia land is flat and barren.
*Sargon, from Akkad was a powerful leader in 2350 BC.
*Akkadian Empire in the city of Akkad. It had the Fertile Crescent, the most fertile place.
*Ancient empire Babylonian Empire was on the Euphrates River.
*Evidence shows that the Akkadian empire ended abruptly around 4170 (150 calender year) BP.
*Severe drought, thus ending the empire.
*Babylonian Empire was strong until they adopted the culture of city dwellers. The Persians captured the Babylonian empire in 539 BC. Through generations the tribal customs were lost. New comers had new views on war and how to live.
Nile River yo.
*Flows north out of the mountains. Woot.
*Flows through egypt, sudan, uganda, ethiopia, zaire, kenya, tanzania, rwanda, brundi.
*Four thousand miles long.
*Most of these towns are along the nile for water supply.
*Egyptians settled along the Nile around 5,000 BC.
*4,000 BC they started domesticating sheep and stuff.
*3,000 BC they began irrigation
*2,660 BC they built their first pyramid.
*Smaller farm towns.
*They built pyramids to bury dead Pharaohs.
*The tallest is as tall as the Washington Monument.
*80 pyramids in all.
*Mummification and canned organs. Yum?
*They were polytheistic- meaning they worship more than one god. The Pharaoh is their main god. They believe in the after life.
*They grew wheat, barley, beans and cotton.
*Grew onions, leaks, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, and figs. They also had fruit trees. Along with vine plants.
*Wild crocodiles and fish in the Nile.
*Domestic geese, cows, sheep, ducks, goats, pigs, and cats.
Indus River:
Around India but more into Pakistan
Indus Valley had mainly a rural culture, relying on an overabundance of crops for trade.
They invented cock fighting, and were somewhat organized in their building system, using copper or stone markers in front of houses to identify different families.
The lived around the Indus River and were called the Indus Valley Civilization. They were also known as Harappan because the first discover o them was in the town of Harappa. Over 1,000 cities and villages most of which were urban.
Cities made of mud brick.
Very skilled in the making of bronze, tin, and copper.
They started to decline when trade with other civilizations declined-- due to drought, floods, and maybe Aryans had conquered them.
They needed the river for irrigation, silt, trade, and life.
It provides key water reources to the economy in Pakistan.
It still provides Pakistan's agriculture, mainly the Punjab Province. (Punjab meaning water of five rivers.)
It provides potable water, meaning you can drink it.
It is home to the River Dolphin, one of the few species of the freshwater dolphin.
If the levees they made did not keep the water out of the cities, they would make human-made islands to keep the cities above water level.
Mohenjo-Daro (Mound of the Dead) - 2600 BC abandoned in 1900 BC.
It was rediscovered in 1922, 3,700 years after being abandoned.
Kalibangan (Black Bangles)
Dead people were buried in oval pits that were later filled with mud.
They had fire altars used to worship Agni, the Hindu god of fire.IT was abandoned around 1900 BCE.
Harappa 1600 BC
Said to have about 23,500 people-- only having about 15,000 people.
Destroyed by the British Raj.
Cotton was dyed for clothing.
People had problems finding clean water to bathe with.
Only wealthy people had their own bathrooms.
Almost every room in Mohenjo-daro had their own bathroom and toilet because it was a very advanced city.
No kingdom found-- early urban civilizations only lasted about 1,000 years.
Impressive and well built cities.
The cities had plumbing, much like ours today.
Indus Civilization began to fall in 1750 BC - reason unknown for certain.
1500 BC Aryans warriors, nomads, conquered the area.
The weather was an issue for them.
They grew rice.
Empires/Kingdoms in the China Yellow River Civilization:
Xia Dynasty(21st-16th century BC),
Shang Dynasty(16th-11th century BC),
Tang Dynasty(618-907 BC),
Zhou Dynasty (1045-256 BC),
Spring and Autumn Period (722- 476 BC,)
Warring States Period (476-221 BC),
Qin Dynasty ( 221- 206 BC,
Han Dynasty (202 BC- AD 220),
*Western Han
*Xin Dynasty
*Eastern Han
Wei and Jin Period (AD 265-420),
Wu Hu Period (AD 304 - 439,)
Southern and Northern Dynasty (AD 420 - 589,)
Sui Dynasty (AD 589 - 618),
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907),
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907-960),
Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia Dynasties (AD 960 - 1234),
Yuan Dynasty (AD 1271 - 1368),
Ming Dynasty (AD 1368 - 1644),
Qing Dynasty (AD 1644 - 1911),
Modern Era:
Republic of China 1949 to present.
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Other crap:Test tomorrow.
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