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Nile River Valley:

-the Nile River valley is located in Africa and goes through Egypt

-it was necessary for farming

-they used the river for traveling

-its the longesr river in the world (4150 miles)

Geography:

the nile would flood every year from July to

The Early River Valley Civilizations

• Mesopotamian - The Babylonian Empire
  • Powerful state in ancient world
  • most fertile and rich parts of the ancient world
  • kings are called first dynasty of Babylon
  • Babylon is the capital
  • Jew were held there for 70 years
  • Baby

-Mesopotamia was a REGION, not a civilization

Uruk

-In about 5000 BCE the city was founded
-had about 50-80k people-made it one of the largest cities

Nippur
-considered a sacred group, formed around 5000 BCE, peaked in 2500 BCE
-special place of worship to

culture of indus

the religion is still unsertain. it was very simila to the hinduism of today

people were born into social classes

highly organized agriculture

Harapppa one of the biggest  cities three classed religious elite , trading class, the poor wo

Mesopotamia- commonly thought of as the first civilization the truth is that Mesopotamia is just the area where the first civilization were.

Mesopotamia cities by the river- Assut Marri Nuzi Sippar

Uruk- In about the year 500 bce the city of uruk was f

-Mesopotamia is commonly thought of as the first civilization. The truth is that Mesopotamia is just the area where the first civilizations were there different civilizations most broken up into city, states.

Uruk

-in about the year 5000 BC the city wa

Nile River Valley

• Nile River Valley is located in Africa and goes through Egypt
• Necessary for farming
• Used river for traveling
• Longest river in the world (4,150 miles)
• Nile would flood every year from July to November
• Washed away all of waste
• Brought new ri

Mesopotamia-

-first civilization

Uruk- one of the first cities one of

-one of largest cities of that time

Nippur

-one of the more sacred group

Nineveh

-one of the oldest cities

-founded in 6000 BCE

-earthquake destroyed the first temple of Ishtar

Geography- be

Mesopotamia

• thought of as the first civilization, but they were just the area where the first civilizations were
• some cities were sippar, babylon, kutu, kish
• Uruk-founded in 5000 bce
• uruk had 50000=80000 people in its 6 km walls in 2900 bce
• that made it t

today we finished our political projects and worked on the skits then when we got done we worked on homework

Mr. Bruns was still gone so we still worked on our presentations that are due tomorrow. Conner and i worked on the skit part of the presentation and decided a some-what plot.

Script for play 

Absolute:

The king and queen sit to meet a criminal, the crim

presentations continued, we will most likely be presenting.

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

i was gone

We did our presentation over the Indus River.

Indus- the river changed course. floods didn't fertilize the fields so the soil became unfertile. The Harappan civilization ended around 1300 B.C. The Indus River goes through places like Pakistan, Afghani

Presented Presentations

We Presented on the Indus River.

Mesopotamia

between the rivers

Tiger ans Euphrates river combined flows through modern Iraq

northern hills ans plains fertile land southern marshy and wide

Fertile Crescent

culture

songs written for go

Presentations

The Nile River

• They grew wheat and barley, veggies, fig, melons.
• AKhet- Flooding season (june=Sept)
• Peret- Growing Season (october- Feb.)
• Economy- the river would have a surplus of crops therefore they would be to sell the surplus.
• Culture- K

Presentations

The Nile River

• They grew wheat and barley, veggies, fig, melons.
• AKhet- Flooding season (june=Sept)
• Peret- Growing Season (october- Feb.)
• Economy- the river would have a surplus of crops therefore they would be to sell the surplus.
• Culture- K

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

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