Mesopotamia -
located in present day Iraq
known as the land between two rivers the Euphraties and Tigris
rivers make the land fertile
Nile -
located in Africa
flowes North from East Africa to the Mediterranean because its coming out of the mountains
flows through egypt, sudan, uganda, ethiopia, zaire, kenya tanzinea, rwanda
from the greek word Nelios which means valley
egyptians settled along the nile river around 5000 BC
lived in smaller farm towns and grew crops and domesticated livestock
built pyramids to burry the dead pharaohs 80 in all
mummies - they mummified their pharaohs
religion- polytheistic - worshiped more than one god, pharaoh was their main god and they believed in the after life
grew - wheat, barley, beans, cotton, onions, leaks ,cabbage, fruit trees grew well by the river
China Yellow River
also known as the Haung He river
second longest river 3398 miles long
saying from the color of its water from the loess dirt that blows in from teh Central Asian Steppe
supplies water, irrigates farmeland, dilivers silt to the farmland
chinese moved to yellow river valley about 30 years ago
its where china started
they believed in the supernatural
father makes decisions like career, spouses, and education
yellow, red, and green are their lucky colors
xia dynasty was the first dynasty, marked the end of the primitive ages
Indus River
mainly rural culture
relied on overabundance of croms and relied on trading, very religious
builded using coper stone markers in front of houses
indus valley civilization or Harappan, streatched great distances
over 1000 cities and villiages made out of mud brick
very skilled making bronze, tin, and copper
declined because of years of droughts, and huge fluds, or asia conquiring them
water for life, trading, irrigation for crops, and silt deposits
mainly in punjab province, punjab means water fo five rivers
potable means drinkable
mohenjo-daro main city, most advanced cities of its time
people had problems finding clean water to bathe with
no kingdom or empire formed
one of the earlies civilizatons, impressive and well built cities, cities had pluming
one of the first to use cotton for clothing
fell in 1750 BC dont know why prolly drought
source of rivers water is a melting glaciers and snow from the Himalays
located mostly in Pakastan
They all have similar stories on how they ended from drought, floods, or conquire and how they began
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