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communism is a form of government where on dictator changes everything, so that every on in the county is equal. government takes peoples rights. countries with communism are china, Cuba, loas, North Korea, and Vietnam. Soviet union first communist c

We Started By editing our text boxes on our pages and put our power points on there.

Democracy- Many different countries have this. ones that sounds out, U.S. Japan, Norway, Finland,

Direct Democracy- where people vote on things directly other than vot

Democracy, many countries around the world have a democracy, U.S., Finland, Norway, Japan...

Direct democracy, people vote on thing directly, instead of voting for representatives.

representative, people elect representatives that vote on policies inst

We updated our status about what the difference consitutional and absulte monarchy are. Then we added a text box and went on to presenting our projects.

Democracy- some countries that practies this are, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Swedan, New Zealand, A

We discussed absolute and constitutional monarchy. Then we watched a power point about democracy, some countries with democracy's are, south Korea, japan , Belgium and the united states. Cleisthenes is the make of democracy, direct democracy is when

The Nile River

• Located in Africa and goes through Egypt
  
• necessary for farming
• used for traveling
• 4,150 miles long
• would flood every year from July-November river used for transportation
  • flooding was important because it brought new rich soil for the Egypti

So basically just a summary of notes and what i've learned:

 mesopotamia- 2 rivers are Tigris and  the Euphrates

many of the objects traded were domesticated animals, wine, donkeys, gemstones, camels, pottery and horse

they used cuneiform to write

used a

We talk about the diffrent democracys. John, Brian, and Zach did their project on the democracys. Austin, Travis, and Ethan did their report on communism.

communism- is a form of goverment where one dictator changes everything. The goverment takes the

We started our morning with a couple current events such as the republican nomination and hurricane Isaac. Then he talked about self evaluation on our project ans think about how well we did. He then gave the group that went yesterday a bit of constr

yellow river- second largest in china. muddiest major river in world. china had four major religions- taoism, buddhism, islamic, and catholicism. silt from nearby desert the water its color. major cities, lanzhou, yinchan, hhot,  zhangzhou, jinan. an

We finished presentions today.

The Indus Valley Civilization(IVC) was a Bronze Age Civilzation(3300- 1300) BCE

The IVC is also know as Harappan Civilization

The IVC went across Pakistan and northwest India.

According to some archaeologists, more than 500

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
• I

Presentations today.

Nile:

Cities/States:

• grew wheat, barley, vegies, fig, melons, etc.
• they had 3 seasons: flooding season, growing season, and harvesting season
• tried to trap as much flood water into canals
• built mud-brick reservoirs to trap and hold wat

On this day the last presentation was given.  Here are the notes I took over all the presentations:

Mesopotamia: Irrigation was used.  Water would sit on the field and evaporate, leaving salt, which would kill the crop.  Food would be lower than the u

indus - built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding, people know how to read and write, only civilization to have private bathrooms, total rain fall is between 5-20 inches, it stretches across six countries, animals were an important par

Today the last group will go, and we have a test.

Yellow river-Second largest in China. Is really muddy. Provides water to the 12% of China. had a lot of religions. It is yellow because of silt. Major cities, Lanzhou, Yinhon, Hhot, Zhangzhou, Jinan. i

The Beginning of Empires:

NILE RIVER:

• Settlement began around 7000 B.C.
  
• Land Kenet- called this because of rich soil
  
• Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt
  
• Narmer caused the division into three Divisions
  

YELLOW RIVER:

• The Cradle of Chinese civilization
  
• Xia dynasty was

1st powerpoint - the nile river
*city-states barely had any food to plant.
*3 seasons- Akhet, Peret, and Shemu. flooding, growing, and harvesting.
* built mud brick resevoirs to trap and hold water.
*pesents hunted for the rich.
*Economy- because of the

Beginnings Of Empires

• 7000 years ago
• upper and lower egypt
• complex societies
• nile delta
• Cataract
• Dashur
• China
• Xai Dynasty
• Yu The Great
• Yellow River
• Sargon
• Mesopotamia
• Mass of migrations
• Akkadain
• Sumerian
• Monarchy
• Bronze Age
• Indus
• IVC
• Pakistan and North India