HELP! I have a paper due tomorrow and can't find any information!!

[johnjohn320]

I have a paper due tomorrow in my history class. Basically, i have to compare and contrast the government of ancient India, ancient China, ancient Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt. I found plenty of stuff on Egypt, but I'm stuck when it comes to the others. The library is no help, it's closed today. ANY suggestions of where to look on the web? I've searched under Google for hours, I can't turn up sh!t. It's getting frusturating! Thanks!

 

[UG]

Three word essay: they each failed.

 

[jlee75]

what grade level? and have you tried an encyclopedia yet?

 

[johnjohn320]

I'm a sophomore in High School, and I don't own an Encyclopedia library.

 

[UG]

Clue #1: "The library is no help, it's closed today."

 

[UG]

Clue #0.5: "I have a paper due tomorrow"

 

[UG]

Assignment: find at least one irony in my collective two previous posts to this thread.

 

[jlee75]

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

i didn't mean the actual books!

 

[johnjohn320]

There's a reason encyclopedia.com is free:

search:

ancient china---no results
ancient india---no results
ancient mesopotamia---no results

 

[weezergirl]

your history book.

 

[Atlantean]

maybe you shouldn't leave things until the last minute, but you should try britannica.com or encarta.com or one of those sites, there are also others, but I don't know what they are. Oh and there might be something on the national geographic page

 

[HombrePequeno]

How long have you known aboot this? How long does it have to be?

 

[jlee75]

encyclopedia was only one suggestion. there are other resources out there.

1) johnjohn isn't exactly the emiptome of a good student.
2) johnjohn is a lazy ass
3) johnjohn needs to go on the internet and search.

 

[meister]

Well?

how deep do we go in off topic? this can easily cover a semester at the college level.

here are some clues:

ancient India = the Indus river civilization
ancient China = the Khmer's, (although really was Cambodia region)
Mesopotamia = all kinds of kingdoms, akkadians, hittites, syria and assyria.
Sargon was a highlight ruler of the akkadians.
Egypt= duh, who hasn't thought about this one, however did you realize one reason why we think of 'eternal' egypt is because it continuously ruled for so long. We have record of EVERY ruler from 3100 BC to 31 BC. 3000 years of continuity. amazing.

Mark

 

[meister]

another clue:

comparison--all grew up and were nourished by a great river for each geographic location, can you name the rivers?

Mark

 

[MustPost]

some people in my class were talking about an essay that sounded almost the same as that earlier this week. I think they messed up on it though.

 

[Talon]

India

 

[johnjohn320]

To those of you who are saying I shouldn't have put this off til the last minute, I have 4 papers due tomorrow, and all were assigned roughly around the same time. Yes, I am just starting this paper tonight, cause for the past 4 days (when it was assigned) I have been working on all the other papers I have due tomorrow.

To those of you who gave suggestions, thank you. I am almost done with my paper now....then...bed...sweet...sweet bed....