architecture and artwork. The civilization is located at the northeastern Africa‚ bordering the Mediterranean Sea‚ along the Nile River. The climate’s hot and dry‚ mostly deserted‚ even today. The Nile River was its main source. The location was a great benefit to the nation. It brought the nation a lot of wealth and power‚ as the villagers started moving along the Nile River. Agriculture became a common practice and many began to interact‚ trade with other cultures around the continent. The form
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African Americans. In the first stanza Angelou uses the geographical make up of the land to give humanizing features to the continetnt. She describes the mountains of Africa as her breast and her hair is the deserts. Line six‚ "two Niles her tears" describes the Nile river as flowing tears and reflects her pain. "Thus she has lain" in this stanza describes an African American woman’s struggle in Africa. This phrase is mentioned in each stanza of the poem. The second stanza gives details about the
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sudan Kush-kingdom that controlled nile Lake Malawi-south sudan Lake Victoria-lake surrounded by Tanzania‚ Uganda and Kenya Locust- rapidly breeding insect Nilotic people-herders on the nile river Serengeti Plain-area of land in tanzania Sisal-plant used for rope Sorghum-beef/lamb‚sour milk/animal blood Swahili-unique to e Africa common language Teff-used to make injera Tsetse fly-sleeping sickness Tutsi-ethnic group in rwanda White & Blue Nile- branches Possible essay questions:
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while Egypt has a much more optimistic outlook on life. The difference of their views were most likely due to the fact that Mesopotamia had random flooding‚ droughts‚ and other natural disasters that they would blame on their good. However‚ Egypt’s Nile River had a natural occurring flood cycle that Egyptians used to their agricultural benefit and thanked their gods for it. These views probably shaped all the rest of their society’s organization. First‚ let’s look at the differences in social classes
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was KMT/Kemet which means land of the blacks. And those nations prospered well before 4000BC. 3. The river in the Garden of Eden (Pishon) is the Nile River. Unlike the Tigris and the Euphrates‚ the Pishon has never been clearly located. It is briefly mentioned together with the Tigris in the Wisdom of Sirach (24:25)‚ but this reference throws no more light on the location of the river. The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus‚ in the beginning of his Antiquities of the Jews (1st century
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A.P. World History Guided Reading 1 "The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations” TERMS: Culture - Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship)
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Egypt developed North and South hugging the banks of the Nile River Valley. * The Nile River systematically floods which flooded the surrounding banks and made the soil exceptionally rich. * Egypt bordered on the side of sea and dessert which was difficult to invade and conquer it. 2. Mesopotamia has the Tigris and Euphrates River‚ commonly referred to “Fertile Crescent.” * Mesopotamia was formed in between these two rivers. * When Mesopotamia has a flood‚ they are forced to supply
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Abu Mena (Egypt) By: Porsha Lee. Instructor: Dr. Greta Bolin Date: 11/10/2013 Abu Mena was the name of a soldier who was an officer in the Diocletian army. Once Menas army won the war‚ he refused to kill any Christians‚ he declared his Christianity which made a tremendous motive for other Christians to bear the suffering and abuse from the Diocletian’s army ("Abu Mena-Unesco World Heritage Centre"
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Darwin’s Nightmare can be described as an allegory presenting a world of super powers and their greed to steal‚ destroy and kill. It is not only the story of Eastern Congo alone‚ but an eye opener to the imperialistic interest of some “war lords” in the natural resources of some endowed nations that are considered lesser power. Examples of such are nations like Iraq‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Sudan‚ or Sierra- Leone. The endless conflicts are often described as tribal or religious‚ but the underlying
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exhibiting indicator traits of civilization developed along the floodplains of great rivers‚ the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq‚ and the Nile in Egypt. People had settled in Mesopotamia by 7000 B.C. and the First Dynasty of Egyptian rulers was founded before 3000 B.C.‚ implying a much earlier period of occupation in the Nile River valley and delta. To protect themselves and channel the forces of nature‚ people living near the rivers created new technologies and forms of political and social organization. The
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