Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia means land between two rivers
- City States - Umma and Kish
- Rivers - Tigris and Euphrates
- Rivers come together and go to the Persian Gulf
- water used for irrigation, transportation, trade
- Culture: Sumerians and Akkadians
- believed in more than 3000 gods
- school only for royal children
- lots of art
- hunting, boxing, and wrestling were popular things to do
- Countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait
- Southern Mesopotamia is flat and barren
- Temp reaches 110 degrees F
- Sargon was leader of Akkadian in city of Akkad
- had good farming
- Babylonian Empire was on Euphrates River
- Akkadian Empire ended 2154 BC - people migrated south because of drough
- Persian capture the Babylonian empire in 539 BC
- Babylonian had strong civilization until new people came - customs were lost and new people had new views
- Located in present day Iraq
Nile River
- Located in Africa
- Flows north - out of mountains
- 4000 miles long
- Flows through Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda
- Egyptians settled along river about 5000 bc
- 4000 bc started practicing agriculture
- 3000 bc began irrigating farmland
- lived in small towns
- built pyramids to bury dead pharaohs
- pharaohs were mummified
- polytheistic - worshiped more than one god
- believed in after life
- grew vegetables: onions, leaks, cabbage, lettuce
- animals: crocodiles, fish, geese, cows, ducks, sheep, goats, pigs
- cats were used to keep rodents away
Indus River
- Located between India and Pakastan
- Rural culture - relied on their overabundance of crops
- very religious
- built things with copper or stone to mark who lived in the houses
- 2600 to 1900 BCE the Harappan lived along the river valley
- over 1000 cities and villages
- very skilled in making bronze, tin, and copper
- the group started to decline when trade when down after a drought
- the water provided trading, irrigation for crops, and there were many silt deposits
- provided water to Pakistan now in the present
- home of the fresh water dolphins
- you can drink the water
- they built many things to try and prevent the cities from ever being flooded
- City Kalibangan is known as Black Bangles
- many people had a hard time finding clean water
- first to use cotton for their clothing
- 1st to have plumbing
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