HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shudra, Central Asia
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Unlike mesopotamia appreciate the river and loved it. Unlike tigris and euphrates though the niles flooding was more predictable and easier to harness. Also because they performed mummification the egyptian made scientific discoveries. Small lakes(nile delta) cities developed along small lakes due to fertile land. Desert inhabitable, limited trade and where the civilization could settle. Nile created egypt, made it accessible for trade and for king to travel to different districts, allowed the to farm and gave them their religion. Due to nile egyptians created technology like ploughs, shadufs and irrigation. Peasants and farmers and others in lower classes if unable to pay taxes were not tolerated and were severely punished. This strict relationship between the low class and the government nobles was effective because it provided all food needed for egyptians to not worry about food and be able to make other progress math, science, hieroglyphics, technology and architecture.
