Today in class we talked about why we study history, and what it is all about. We study history because we don't want history to repeat its self. We will understand the early river valley civilizations. What are the main events that took place in the 8th grade US History that helped shape the US up to 1877? When a civilazation is made up someone is going to take control and people are going to disagree, because everyone has their own opinions and people are going to be disagreeing. Depending on social classes people will dissagree, the rich will be above the poor. People will be selling and trading, making new technologies, using the river for water to drink, water their crops. The four areas we will talk about are mesopotamia, nile, indus, and china yellow river.
Group 4- China Yellow River
Need to include- Geography of the culture- Betsy, Importance of the river- Melissa, City states areas that emerged into that area- Lindsey, the culture- Liz, the empires or kingdoms that came to be in that area, the end of the empire and why and how it happened- Lizz, who moved in afterwards- Lindsey
Gergraphy of the culture- 4000 B.C. is about when the river valley civilazation began in china, this was the start of many chinese empires.
Several of the ethnic groups and cultures began in this era.
The yellow river is also known as the Huang He River.
The yellow river stretches more than 2,900 miles across china.
http://www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/yellow.php
Today in class we worked on our powerpoint, and touched up some of our research.
Today in class we worked on our powerpoint, and touched up some of our research.
Mesopotamia- means the land between two rivers, Uruk was the largest city in mesopotamia, babylon means the gates of gods, Rivers- Tigris river, euphrates river, Snow contributes to the rivers in iraq, Used for suppy and irrigation of the crops, transportation, Culture- Sumerians, and Akkadians, Schooling was only for royal children, The land is fertile with seasonal rains, Leader was sargon, his empire was called the Akkadian, The babylonian empire had a strong civiliztion until they adopted the culture of city dwellers.
Nile river- Located in africa, Goes between the white nile and the blue nile,, one of the only rivers that flows north, beccause it comes out of the mountains, egyptians settled along the nile river around 5,000 BC, 3,000 BC began irrigation of farmland, 2,660 BC started building their first pyramid, built pyramids to burry the dead pharoahs, 80 pyramids in all, Religion- polytheistic means they worship more than one god, pharaoh is their main god, Animals- wild crocodiles and many fish
We learned about the Indus River, It is mostly in pakistan, but mostly in india, the people where very religious, they where somewhat organized, they invented cock fighting, very big civilatzation, over 1000 citys, water was a big part of their life, trading, irrigation, lots of silt, provides lots of water to pakistan, had problems finding clean water, only wealthy people had their own showers.
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