Egyptians used this very frequently because it is freshwater resource in the country and due to their lack of precipitation, they can use the river to their advantage. In Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were used as an excellent transportation system, the water was for growing crops and drinking. But one thing different from the Nile, is that it once or twice a year the rivers would flood and the Mesopotamians then used the extra water for irrigation on the land. Egyptians invented a written language known as Hieroglyphs. They used pictures to interpret what they were saying when trying to communicate.
Because of this, the Southern colonists made their living off farming cash crops, such as rice, usually in plantations. The Middle colonists also shared a prosperous growing season because of their mild climate. However instead of cash crops, the Middle colonists would grow wheat and grains, being the “breadbasket” of the colonies. New England colonists didn’t have much prosperity in agriculture. They would instead participate in subsistent farming, meaning they grew only what they needed to feed themselves.
The water is not easily absorbed into the clay because it is harder for the water to enter the pores. Soil type and texture are very important to farmers. Too little water in the soil may cause plants to wilt and die. Too much water in the soil can disrupt a plant's ability to take in oxygen. Based on your data, which type of soil do you think is best for agriculture?
In California, water was scarce. In response, farmers created irrigation ditches to water their fields. In the Plains, resources for building were absent. Farmers had to create sod houses to provide warmth. Along with the booming of agriculture, new inventions surfaced.
The Maya and Shang relied on similar agricultural methods and political structures with small kingdoms and one ruler; however, they differed culturally since the Shang had no religion and the Mayans did. Both civilizations organized into hierarchies of power, although the Mayan small city-kingdom system worked better than the Shang decentralized states. Unlike the Mayans, the Shang had many governors and trusted them to carry out the orders. However, the governors were not hundred percent loyal to their king and rebelled a lot. The only reason they stayed in power for a certain time was that they could monopolize their bronze.
7 characteristics of a civilization: Egypt Trade: Trade was done by barter, a reasonably efficient method when mostly basic necessities were exchanged. Even after coined money was introduced in the second half of the first millennium BCE, barter continued to be widespread among the farming population for centuries. Grain and oil often served as a kind of coinage . This use of basic storable food stuffs had both advantages and drawbacks. If all one earned was expended on food anyway and there was practically no choice about the kind of food one could get, then eating one's wages was a system less cumbersome than being remunerated in specie and having to acquire the food afterwards.
Because of this, both of these civilizations depended on rivers to sustain a productive agriculture. This is especially important to both because they lived in arid lands. However, the rivers that the Egyptians and Mesopotamians used were far different from each other. The Egyptians lived near the Nile
However this wasn’t the case for all other countries because the advances of the Green Revolution were much slower in reaching developing countries. A lot of the smaller farms lagged behind larger ones in adopting Green Revolution technology. For example, Africa gained very little from it. The crop field were low, irrigation was not widely used and few farmers could afford the technology needed. Rural areas in Africa especially such as Punjab; a poorer village in a rural area who were unable to keep up with cost of inputs and fertilisers which intensive agriculture requires.
Trade was an essential part of these societies. The bazaars and town markets where this trading took place was a place rich with many different cultures, foods, farming supplies and techniques, the latest weaponry, politics and news. Without this, these civilizations would’ve advanced slower and there would’ve been a high possibility that they would’ve become ethnocentric much like the early Chinese civilizations were. But trade was inevitable where the Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies grew. They each lived on flat planes around large rivers where it would be pretty easy to communicate to the other societies around them.
Around 3000 B.C.E (6000 Years ago), existed four ancient civilizations, two of which are classified as Mesopotamia and Egypt. Mesopotamia’s location was along the Tigris and Euphrates River, while Egypt’s establishment was adjacent to the Nile River. Mesopotamia’s lifestyle was comparable to Egypt’s in various ways. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt created a centralized government and complex social hierarchy due to advancements in agriculture, however in Egypt women experienced greater liberties then their counterparts in Mesopotamia. Both Mesopotamia and Egypt developed along parallel lines.