River Valley Civilization Innovations HW

Please click on the links below to help you with the HW 请点击下面的链接来完成你的功课:

Please add the the following words into your Unit 2 Vocab list 下列單詞加入第二單元詞彙表:

1. Adapt (add your own definition, 自己加定义）
2. Modify (add your own definition, 自己加定义）
3. Irrigation： the act of supplying water to land or crops

Terrace Farming in Ancient China

Directions: Examine the image below and watch this video on the rice terraces in Yunnan, China then complete the tasks the follow.

Terrace Farming

4. In your own words, describe what terrace farming is and explain how terrace farming benefited the Ancient Chinese.

Mud Brick Making

Directions: Watch this CCTV video on how a modern day mud brick maker makes bricks, a process that is not that different from the technique used by people in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus River Valley Civilization.
5. Describe the techniques used to make mud bricks.	6. Explain how being able to create bricks might have affected the Early River Valley Civilizations.