- Mesopotamia
- North is full of hills and plains, there is a lot of rain, they got medal and stone from the surrounding mountains.
- First Cities: they were the centers of life appeared in 3500 to 4000BC and were the worlds first cities, each city had a specific god or goddess.
- Culture: Many gods, city was placed between two river, women didn't play a huge part, after puberty girls were ready for marriage
- First farmers: People settled in one spot and started farms and raised animals
- came up with the Pythagorean theorem, created the wheel, sail boat, and irrigation systems.
The Yellow River:
- In China
- it is the seventh longer river in the world
- used water for irrigation and travel
- learned how to make dams and stuff to control the water
- silt from mountains ran into the river; thus the name
- honoring your parents was a big deal, worshiped a king
- Chang'an was an ancient capital to 10 dynasties in china
Indus
- cities were built of brick and stone
- 2600-3700 BC
- drainage systems and water wells were the most sophisticated in the ancient worlds
- Greater Indian region was home to the largest of 4 ancient early civilizations
- population of around 5 million people
- The cities were highly developed for that time period
- houses were cool during the summer because of the thick walls
- survived for about 5oo years
- longest river in Pakistan
How Civilizations Fell
- Hammurabi was the "greatest" king of Babylon.
- ended in 529 B.C.E
- Menes was the first Nile Egyptian king of the Nile
- new kingdom ended in 1070 B.C.E
- 6,000 feet above sea level
- Indus was called the Haraffa civilization
- started around 3300 B.C.E
- ended in 1700 BC
- yellow started in 4000 BC
- Mountains made trade hard
- 10% of the land was fertile....
- under control of different kingdoms
- split after 440 BC
- reunited in 589-618 BC
- represented unity and disunity
- all lasted around 15 to 900 years
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