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today we started by talking about huricanes and some of the more deadly ones then we finished working on our projects and we will present tommorow

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8/29/12

Today we worked on our projects for the whole class period. I fine-tuned my project and got done with it. Tomorrow we will show our projects to the class.

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Wednesday August 29th

China Yellow River

Second longest river -3398 miles long

yellow because of loess soil

Supplies water to 155 million people

Chinese moved there 30 million years ago

Indus River

Flows through Pakistan and india

Indus Valley civilization (2600- 1900 BC)

invente

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Wednesday August 29, 2012

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 th

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Wednesday August 29, 2012

Nile- Located in Africa. Flows north from East Africa to the Mediterranean for 4184 miles.  Longest river in the world.  Name came from Neilos, meaning valley.  Egyptians settled along the Nile river around 5,000 BC.  Started domesticating sheep and

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wednesday 8-29-12

took notes on all the presentations

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers

bilabial- the gate of gods

culture- two groups- Sumerians and Akkadians

hunting was popular and so was boxing

300 miles long and 150 miles wide

Babylonian empire is one of th

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Wednesday Aug. 29th 2012

Mesopotamia -

located in present day Iraq

known as the land between two rivers the Euphraties and Tigris

rivers make the land fertile

 

Nile -

located in Africa

flowes North from East Africa to the Mediterranean because its coming out of the mountains

flows

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Wednesday August 29, 2012

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 mor
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Wed. August 29, 2012

Mesopotamia- land between two rivers

  • Located by the Tigris River and the Eurphrates River.
  • They dump to the Persaion Gulf
  • Present day Iraq- snow would go into the rivers
  • The two rivers helped with trading.
  • Two cultures Sumeians and Akkadans
  • Believed in man
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wednesday 8-29-12

took notes on all the presentations

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers

bilabial- the gate of gods

culture- two groups- Sumerians and Akkadians

hunting was popular and so was boxing

300 miles long and 150 miles wide

Babylonian empire is one of th

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wednesday 8-29-12

took notes on all the presentations

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers

bilabial- the gate of gods

culture- two groups- Sumerians and Akkadians

hunting was popular and so was boxing

300 miles long and 150 miles wide

Babylonian empire is one of th

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Wednesday 8-29-2012

Project Presentation Awareness Day. Woot.

Mesopotamia River: The Land Between Two Rivers.
                                *Babylon
                                *Tigris and Euphrates River join together to flow into the Persian gulf.
                  

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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, s

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