Today we went over the notes over all the presentations and copied and pasted them into our daily blog.
China Yellow River-aka Haung He River, 3,398 miles, turned yellow/brown from the Loess dirt and dust that blows in from the Central Asian Steppe, supplies water to 155 million people, birthplace of the Chinese civilizations, had gods and asked them for help, the silk road is a way of travel for agricultural traders, yellow red and green are their lucky colors, 17 men ruled over the Xia dynasty, Jin was one of the rulers.
Mesopotamia-some of the states are Umma, Lagash, Ur, Kish, Uruk, Babylon, Tigris river and Euphrates river, water comes from melting snow, also used for irrigation for crops, Sumerians and Akkadians, believed in 3000 gods, schooling was for rich people, hunting, boxing, and wrestling were popular sports, known as the land between two rivers, fertile land with seasonal rains, temps can reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit, Sargon was a powerful leader from Akkad, most fertile place on the globe, collapsed in 2154 BC Persians captured the Babylonian empire in 539 BC.
The Nile-located in Africa, flows North from East Africa to the Mediterranean for 4,184 miles, flows through several cities, longest river in the world, Greek word Neilos, lots of towns have water supply, Egyptians settled around 5000 BC, 3000 BC began irrigation to grow plants, 2660 BC they built their first pyramid, built pyramids to bury the dead Pharaohs, 80 total pyramids, mummified their Pharaohs to protect them, had multiple gods, they believe in life after death, wheat, barley, beans, cotton, fruits, and vegetables, wild crocodiles, many fish, they had cats killed the rodents.
The Indus River Valley Civilization-Cities were well organized and built of brick and stone. Their drainage systems and water wells were the most sophisticated in the ancient times. The greater Indian region was home to the largest fro the four ancient urban civilizations. Harappa was a city in the Indus civilization that flourished around 2,600 B.C.E. to 1,700 B.C.E. It was the largest of the ancient civilizations. It may have had a population of well over 5 million people. Cities were highly developed. The houses kept cool in the summer because of the think walls. Big houses had a lot of rooms. Beginning around 2,500 B.C.E; the civilizations survived for around 500 years. They had around 40,000 people.
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