tuesday

Today in class we did the project Pyramid Challenge. You had to choose the right order and props to be able to build the pyramid. Our group consisting of both Adams and me, we got 20 out of 20.

2/23 work on three videos

1st Video

• Ancient Egypt lasted from 3000 B.C. to 332 B.C. 
• Nile shaped world view for Egypt
• Nile- one of the safest and richest agriculture areas in the world at that time
• planting was very easy
• Egyptian communities existed ONLY along the Nile

2nd Video

• Pyramid of Giza 
• stone at the top of the pyramid
• built tunnels inside pyramid 
• the inside of the pyramid was greatly studied by many people 
• the people inside tried to find a subterranean tunnel but couldn't but a secret entrance is known but is still secured.

3rd Video

• mummy of a young man 
• died at 20 years old 

Process of Mummification

• all internal organs removed 
• body was covered with salt to dry up
• poured oils on him
• layers of rosin were laid
• then covered with wrappings
• then put a wooden board under him and cover again
• a poach was placed on chest and then mummified Isis was put on the lower chest (was placed as offering to the gods)
• then covered again
• then a portrait of the deceased man was put on the area near the head
• then wrapped him in linen cloth and then took off the part covering his portrait
• put Egyptian symbols on to protect him

his body is safe because of mummification

cyber day

The categories on the Prezi are geography, daily life, Pharaohs, gods and goddesses, and pyramids.

Geography

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• water for drinking, irrigation, bathing, and transportation
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil.
• the delta has a lot of fertile silt
• managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation

Pyramids

• the Great Sphinx of Giza- 2555 BC- 2532 BC
• a lion body with a human head
• oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily Life

• slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and children
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onion. They benefited from the Nile
• artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• money/barter system was used- merchants would accept bags of grain for payment- coinage came later.
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments
• they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows-arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• upper class known as "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, and engineers
• religious and political leaders

Pharaohs

• the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people. Holding the titles "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple"
• as "Lord of the Two Lands" the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt
• he owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as a pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51 BC to 30 BC) we will study her more when we study Greece

Gods and Goddesses

• over 2,000 gods and goddesses
• they "controlled" the lives of humans

February 9

Today we had a test on the video Guns, Germs, and Steel. I think the test was pretty easy and I think i did pretty well but i know i got the first question wrong.

Friday

On Friday we finished watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. In Papua New Guinea, they never had advanced technology. Nothing has changed for centuries. People lost food when a drought happened and people started to move to get food. Any two points that have the same climate, will have the same growth. 

TEST QUESTION maybe: Is wheat native to the Americas?

today 2/3/2015

Today in class we continued to watch Guns, Germs, and Steel. I learned that people in China grew not wheat or barley but rice. In America, they grew corn, squash, and beans. In Africa, they grew sorghum, yams, and millet. In Papua New Guinea, people have farmed there for 10,000 years. In the Middle East people evolved 10,000 years ago. They eat giant spiders for protein because they didn't have much protein. If you had the most product able crops, you had the most productive resource. It also depended on where you are in the world. Wheat is 1/5 of calories people eat. 9,000 years ago villages got bigger and had a good source of food. If you wanted meat, you had to hunt it. People raised animals like goat and sheep and ate them.Goats and sheep were also the first animals domesticated. In other parts of the world people used the the wheel and plow to farm. In Papua New Guinea, they didn't used the wheel and plow because they had no animal to pull it. There are 14 species of animals other 100 lbs have been domesticated. They are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and Bali cow. Only the llama is from South America and the rest are from Africa or Asia.

Today 2/2/15

Today we watched the video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. There is a book of the same name written by a scientist named Jared Diamond. They begin in Papua New Guinea. People live like it is the Stone Age. One man, when Jared came to the island a couple of years ago, asked him why white men have so much cargo and we do not. That got Jared thinking. He thought that if lived like they did we would not survive and if they came to like New York City, they would not survive. Power was determined by race, white people have more power than black people. All great civilization have three things in common: advanced technology, large population, and a well-organized work force. In the New Stone Age and Middle East, humans were thriving. In Papua New Guinea people are still hunting and gathering. Wild sago is a main source of food to the New Guineans. In the New Stone Age, barley and wheat are found and then eaten. A village named Draa is found in the Middle East. There they found a grainery. The town is 11,500 years old. The plants in the grainery were wheat and barley. This proved that people have started to domesticate.