Thursday blog

In class today we learned about the events going on in Egypt today. It is a continuation of the study of Ancient Egypt to modern Egypt. The president in Egypt recently resigned after being in power for over thirty years. Tomorrow we are going to talk to someone from Egypt named Sarah. We will skype her while in class tomorrow and ask her questions about things in Egypt.


1. When were the protests first started?
2. When did you first hear about the ideas for protests?
3. When did you first decide the join the protests?
4. How were the protests organized?
5. Would you have changed the way the protests were organized if you could?
6. Were you afraid to be caught?
7. Did you have any worries about the protests?
8. How do you feel about the protests?
9.  What was your thoughts about them?
10. What is it like in Egypt now?

Feburary 23rd blog

In class today we presented our raps. Only four people rapped their raps. We also watched a video on the revolution of Egypt. Some of the people wanted the change. Other people in Egypt didn't want the government to change.

Egypt Rap

Ancient Egypt was fine
Sit down and give me some time
to give you  a rhyme
about this cicivilization.
 It would take me a lot of mods
to tell you about egypts gods
700 strong
to tell you about each would take to long.
They all were based on things in nature.
Ra was the main god
god of the Sun.
Thankfully this rap is not done.

Pryamids were a big thing in egypt
A tall four sided triangle
was a tomb for the pharoh
built with sand, clay and stone.
But the egyptians did not build them alone
they had help from workes and slaves.
inside the pyrimid was a maze
to find where the pharoh lays
Buried with them was treasures .

Egyptians were buried as mummies
obviously not dummies.
their bodies wrapped in cloth
as tightly as if you were on Hoth.
Star Wars fans only get this joke
it just gives there humor a poke.
All the organs were removed
and put in jars to be buried with them.
Many steps it included
to make sure the body was secluded
from air to prevent deteriorating.

Now that this this rap is done
now you can see who won
the award for a good civilization.
thanks for taking the time
to read my rhyme about the Egyptians
So now it is done
i hope you had some fun
learning about ancient Egypt
I won't perfrom this rap
because if i did i would sound like crap.
so if you can please sing for me
so you can help tell this story

Class today

We got in groups and worked on putting together a powerpoint. We collaborated our notes to crete the powerpoint. My notes were:

·   In total, there are over 700 gods/goddess!

·   The Egyptians believed that they controlled nature.

·   According to the Egyptians, the gods and goddess were believed to take part in creation, some brought the flood every year, some offered protection, and some took care of people after they died.

·   Aten was believed to be the "king" of the gods.

·   Ra was the most important god and the god of the sun.

·   The Egyptians' might have been one of first to practice a polytheistic religion.

·   There were gods and goddesses who helped Egyptians with daily things in there lives.

·   There were also local gods and goddesses who represented towns.

·   Minor gods usually represented plants or animals.

·   There were gods who were believed to have created the world, and the movement of the sun and moon. (For an example, the god Khepri).

·   Kings and queens were believed to be gods and goddesses themselves.

·   The Egyptians' religion was strongly influenced by tradition.

·   The people believed that the King and the priests were responsible for the things that are going well in the country and for the things that weren't going so well. So basically they were praised and blamed for everything.

·   Common people would usually worship local or household gods.

·   Household gods were often worshiped at shrines located in peoples' houses.

·   Two really well known household gods are Bes and Tauert.

Test Essay

There is a transition of hunter gatherers to farmers in the ancient civilizations. Hunter-gatherers have to find food each day. Plants didn't produce enough food for people to stay in an area for a long amount of time. People figured out that some plants could be grown by humans planting them. people then began to grow plants in a contained area. They could then grow more food and be able to stay in an area for a long time. They then settled in an area and survived from the crops they grew.

There is a significance of food surplus. A surplus of food is when someone can produce more food then they needed to survive. A surplus of food let people be able to feed more people and it helped civilizations grow. Everybody didn't have to grow food all the time anymore. This allowed people to discover how to do other things like making permanent homes. This was how civilizations grew and progressed.

Jared Diamond's theory of geographic luck is a theory of why certain civilizations grew and others didn't.
Geographic luck is basically how lucky a person was to be born in an area that had a lot of geographic resources. It helped civilizations grow if it had a lot of geographic resources or it was "geographically lucky".
Areas in the middle east were more geographically lucky than laces like islands.

Review

Today in class we reviewed for the quiz on Thursday. Review consisted of topic we need to study for the quiz. Jared Diamond was trying to find out why civilizations started in a certain area. Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA. He watches birds as a hobby. Major crops: wheat, barley, corn, rice. Capitol of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea is located North of Australia. Hunter/gatherers spend most of the time finding food and move around a lot. Surplus of food gives people time to work on other things. Specialized workers are a result of a surplus of food. Geographic luck is a big part of how civilizations grew.

notes

Terrain: mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills

Natural resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries

Location: Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia

Birth Rate: 26.95 births/1,000 population

Death Rate: 6.62 deaths/1,000 population

Life expectancy: 65.99 years in total.

Male: 63.78 years

Female: 68.31 years

TFR: 3.54 children born/woman

Languages: Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu

Religions: Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%

Median age: total- 21.6 years, male- 21.9 years, female- 21.3 years

Government type: constitutional parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm

Capital: Port Moresby

Independence: They gained their independence on September 16, 1975

Population below Poverty Line: About 37%

Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 5

We have been watching the movie and this is the fifth class day we are watching it. The area in the middle east with good crops and animals is called the fertile crecent. When the animals helped people with crops there was more surplus. This helped people sepcialize in different things. Climate and environment  changed and forced people to move. They moved to areas on the same latitude. Places with the same latitude have similar days length and climate. The crops and animals were spread rapidly through Europe North africa and Asia. Geography was a big part of how civilizations started and flourished.

The Movie Part 4

Surplus of food helped villages grow.   This is the fourth day of watching the movie. llamas were from South America. Africa had none. Papua New Guinea had none. Europe and middle east had 13 of 14 animals that are domesticated for farming. Middle east had good crops and animals. Known as fertile crecent. The domesticated animals helped to make the civilization grow because of what the animals provided. Some animals provided for humans by pulling plows and doing work. Others provided milk and fur for clothes. Most provided meat so humans didn't have to hunt for food.  The surplus in food helped civilizations grow. Geographic luck was a big part of the advancement of cearly civilizations.

Guns Germs and steel movie part 3

We continued watching the movie in class today. 9,000 years ago people began to domesticate animals. They ate animals for the meat intead of hunting. They had a food source with out moving around. They used milk for protien. They had sheep and goats at first. Then they used other animals like horeses to help grow more crops. Hores pulled plows and allowed more food to be grown.  New Guinnea didn't have animals that are able to pull plows. Best animals to domesticate are large plant eating mammals. Carnivores weren't domesticated because they would have to get other animals to feed the carnivore. Elephants weren't domesticated because it was to big. and ate to much food.  They were tamed individually. Fourteen domesticated animals that are able to be farmed in the history of the world. Some of the animals include goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, 2 kinds of camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yak, oxen mythons, and another type of cow.