Jordan Good, Andrew Watts, Chancey, Robert, and Cody- The Nile River
- Grew barley, veggies,fig, melons, Pomegranates, vines, and flax
- Cities- 3 seasons
- They tried to trap and much water as theu could.
- They built mud brick reseroirs to trao and wold water
- Imigration Canals
Economy- The early River valley Civilization woild have a surprise of crops to be able to sell
- Social structure- ruler of the Land
- Had special status
- Female companion also had special status
- Most people are farmers
- Agriculture- The Nile usually deposited the nutrients needed for growing food on top
- Culture- They believed in many gods, they believed humans form and the government
- Wrote using hieroglyphics
- building and structure was made out of mud blocks
- Pyramids
- Large boats to travel
- They are deserts to the east and to the west of the nile, and moutains to the east.
- Longest river in the world 4,100 miles long
- Geography- The nile gets its water from the moutains
- If the river flooded, just a few feet lower than the usual
Nate Cave, Caleb Rihner, Trey Lansman, Zach Gross, and Dallon Bendorf- Early River Civilizations
- Irrigation was good and bad for the civilation
- Water should sit on field and eleporate and leaves salt behind
- Mesopotamia- Was made up of people from summer, Acadian, Assyrian, and Babylon Empires
- Ended in 1600 B.C.
- Nile- ended because of flooding
- They broke the clay houses washed away there crops died and there animals were washed away.
- Indus River- Changed course
- Floods didn't fertilize the fields ao there soil became un fertile
- There are large Monsoon
- People that were living on the Indus were Buddhists of Ladahk
- Yellow- Shang dynasty ended around 1046 B.C.
- It flows through nine provinces of China
- Flooding is a major problem for the river civilizations
Taylor Davis, Jordan Andersen, Shelby Jacobsen- Mesopotamia
- It means in Greek Between the rivers
- The river flows through Modern Iraq
- Its called the Fertile Crescent and includes many countries
- Cultures- Songs were written for the gods but many were written for inportant events
- Most of the music was to make the rulers laugh but they were also enjoyed by other people
- Believed in over 3,000 gods
- Each city was given a certain god.
- Everyone was ready for marriage after they hit puberity
- Irrigation- Flood unpredictable, came sometime between April and June
- Farmers didn't know when to plant or grow crops
- 6000 B.C. imigration canels were made carried water from rivers to fields
- History- 2 rivers are the tigris and the Euphrates. The Euphrates is the one on the left in the map.
- Cities and states- Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larsa, Sippar, Shurppak
- Has no forest for wood lacked building materials
Nick Kaufman, Zach Wingert, Andrew Nippert, Joey Hanson, and Douglas Deuel- Empires
- settlements began around 7,000 years ago
- Gradually developed into more and more complex societies
- Narmer- leader ruled other kingdoms which then caused army to come in, then leading to 3 divided kingdoms- upper, lower and middle
- The first dynasty of china was the Xia dynasty
- Akkadain language was akkadian and Sumerian
- Religion was Sumerian and that means Mythology, Pantheon, rites, and Cosnology of the civilization
- Monarchy government
- Indus River- No empire around the Indus River
- IVC is also know as Harppan Civilization
- 500 Harappans sites have been discovered along the fried up river beds of the Chaggar- Hakra river.
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