Notes:
Mesopotamia:
cities: center of life. Garden of Eden. Eridu-first city. no known fact of urbanization (environmental factors). no rainfall. Babylon has Eurphrates Tiver. Sacred temple next to Euphrates River city. Semeria was the first city.
culture: believed in many gods. 3000+ Gods. farming. first civilization. between two rivers. sacrifices. women were in the kitchen-good. puberty=ready to marry! schooling was for upper class. hunting was popular.
farmers: stay in one place. nomads to settled people.
fun facts: land between two rivers=Mesopotamia. created the Pythagorean Theorem. liked stars.
Nile River Valley: our project
China: Yellow River Valley. Also known as the Huang He RIver. Cuts through about 2,900 miles of China's landscape. About 3,393 miles long. Name from the color of it's water, turned yellow/brown from the loess dirt and dust that blows in. Supplies water to 155 million people or 12% of the population. Chinese moved to the Yellow River Valley around 30 million years ago and became birthplace o f Chinese civilizations. Believed in the supernatural and asked gods for help. Yellow, red, and green= luck. The Silk Road was a trade route for agriculture. A grand total of 17 men ruled over the Xia Dynasty. Jie, the last ruler, was a terribly horrible ruler.
Indus River: Located in between India and Pakistan. Indus River Valley civilization used it as a supply. They had a rural culture. Lots of trading and were very religious. Invented cock fighting. Also known as Harappan because the first discovery of them was in the town of Harappa. Over 1,000 cities and villages, most of them urban. Made out of mud brick. Very skilled in making tin and copper. Started to end when trading with other nations declined. Caused by years of droughts. River provided trading, irrigation, and lots of silt. Important today because it is a key water resource for the economy of Pakistan. Provides most of the potable water in the country and potable means it is drinkable. Home to the Indus river dolphin. Built strong walls and levees to keep water from coming into the cities. Mohenjo Daro was one of the main cities and also called Mound of the Dead. People had problems finding clean water. Only wealthy people had separate bathrooms. There was no kingdom formed. Had large and well developed civilizations. The cities had plumbing. They were farmers and the first to make cotton into clothing. Were big on trading. Civilization began to end in 1750 BC. River gets its water from the melting snow and glaciers in the Himalayas. Ended possibly because of droughts and enemy invasions.
End of Babylon: 529 bce.
End of the Nile: Menes was the first king, found ancient Rome. ended 1070 bce. waters deposited stuff to make it turn green. blue nile and white nile. 6000 ft above sea level.
Indus: started 3300 bce. invasion of central asia. drought and trade issues. no irrigation. ended in 1700 bce.
Yellow River: China. started in 4000 bce. 3395 miles long. hard for trade. 10% farming us-19%. many kingdoms. split after han dynasty. reunited by sui dynasty. represented unity. started in 1994 bce. lasts 15 year - 900 years.
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