1. Mesopotamia
1.1. Religion
1.1.1. Sumeria Was the first civilization in Mesopotamia.
1.1.2. Mesopotamia developed around 4000 BCE.
1.1.3. Sumerians relied on annual floods.
1.2. Geography
1.2.1. The Sumerian kingdom was made up of CITY-STATES.
1.2.2. Each had its own government army’s and kings.
1.2.3. Goods like wool and wheat were bartered for timber and imported goods.
1.3. Government
1.3.1. Each had its own government .
1.3.2. The Sumerians were a polytheistic.
1.3.3. They built and dedicated ziggurat to the chief god or goddess of a city.
1.4. Social structure
1.4.1. Ziggurat were temples shaped like pyramids.
1.4.2. But the city-states also fought each other for land and water.
1.4.3. Eventually leading to the downfall of Mesopotamia’s first civilization.
1.5. Economy
1.5.1. But there were still surprise floods that washed entire areas out.
1.5.2. The Sumerians relied on annual floods to deposit rich soil onto the riverbanks every spring.
1.5.3. This convinced the Sumerians that other forces were at work,people turned to religion to explain.
2. Phoenicia
2.1. Government
2.1.1. They had governments that where not a unlike Hutton and consisted of independent.
2.1.2. They had more than one government.
2.2. Region
2.2.1. The Phoenicians around about 800 BCE on the coast of north.
2.3. Economy
2.3.1. This was important because they could sell things and get money.
2.4. Geography
2.4.1. That they were the first to reach great British and tread with them.
2.5. Social structure
2.5.1. They made alphabet that was pictures and shapes.
3. Israel
3.1. Religion
3.1.1. The Israelites lived south of Phoenicia in the land of Israel from around
3.2. Economy
3.2.1. Because of the drought and famine the Israelites moved to Egypt.
3.3. Government
3.3.1. Where they were eventually enslaved and were freed only when Moses led them out of Egypt .
3.4. Social structure
3.4.1. Jewish people revolt against Romans
3.5. Geography
3.5.1. According to the Torah Abraham received a divine command to leave Mesopotamia so he led his people to Canaan
4. Egypt
4.1. Religion
4.1.1. Polytheism
4.1.2. pharaohs worshiped as gods.
4.1.3. The Egyptians had hundreds of gods,including many female gods.
4.1.4. Pharaohs had so much power they were considered gods.
4.2. Economy
4.2.1. Most Egyptians were farmers
4.2.2. Really rich because they traded lots of materials
4.2.3. The Nile's annual flooding deposited rich, dark soil on the riverbanks.
4.2.4. Once he finally took power, Egypt entered the era op the NEW KINGDOM
4.2.5. During the annual flooding of the Nile, framers could not work in the fields
4.3. Social Structure
4.3.1. A giant statue that is half man and half lion,was built to protect GREAT PYRAMID
4.3.2. The GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA,took 20 years, up to 100,000 workers, and more than 2 million stones to build.
4.3.3. He built his capital city of MEMPHIS near modern-day cairo.
4.3.4. So they were put to work building Pyramids
4.4. Government
4.4.1. KING MENES created the first united Egyptian dynasty when he joined Upper and Lower Egypt.
4.4.2. The Middle Kingdom was a stable period of expansion
4.4.3. His stepmother HATSHEPUT ruled for him,acting as REGENT for the first two decades of his reign.
4.4.4. Egypt was a Theocracy
4.4.5. Egypt was ruled by 31 different DYNASTIES over about 3,000 years, divided into three periods.
4.5. Geography
4.5.1. Egypt is made up of most of deserts
4.5.2. Everyone depended on the Nile River
4.5.3. It was located in Mesopotamia
4.5.4. It was bordered by the Red Sea
5. Bantu
5.1. Economy
5.1.1. Like many early Civilization,the Bantu were fishermen and farmers.
5.1.2. The Bantu brought metalworking techniques with them.
5.1.3. Each generation moved farther than the last to find more fertile land and better grazing for their animals.
5.2. Geography
5.2.1. For 2000 years,large numbers of Bantu-speaking people from west Africa moved slowly toward the south and east of the continent.
5.2.2. Until it fought Rome in three deadly years, three strikes and they were out.
5.2.3. Carthage was hugely powerful for about 600 years.
5.3. Social Structure
5.3.1. The villages were composed of clans.
5.3.2. Move into already inhabited areas to share cultures and crops (yams,for example).
5.4. Religion
5.4.1. The Bantu would move when the soil gets bad.
5.4.2. They will keep on moving till they find good soil. It did not matter how long it took them.
5.4.3. If their new neighbors weren’t welcoming,the Bantu would put these weapons to use.
5.5. Government
5.5.1. When they did not like there neighbors they would put there weapons to use.
5.5.2. Bantu brought metalworking techniques.
5.5.3. In approximately 1500 BCE,BANTU MIGRATION began.