Today in class we read about Early River Valley Civilizations in the textbook. We learned about the climate and weather changes and how they effected crops and farming. They had floods that would create silt which was good for planting grain. The two rivers in the Fertile Crescent are the Tigris and Euphrates. They flow south west to the Persian Gulf. They frequently flood. When people learned where to plant their plants and how to make water get there, they advanced in their farming.
Today in class we reviewed for our test on Egypt: Upper Egypt- 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the nile (mountain area) Lower Egypt- Wide land of the nile delta (sea level) In 3100 BC Narmer united Egypt Pharaoh is king and god- all powerful Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they call "maat" gods were portrayed with animal heads or bodies people in Egypt believed in after life called ka they preserved bodies with mummification Earliest Egyptian writing formed in 3100 bc and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics papyrus- paper Papyrus was stored in scrolls and were books of ancient Egypt Jean François Champollion discovered hieroglyphics Egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transportation ability on the nile- technological breakthrough British archaeologist who discovered tutankhamon's tom in ...
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