test day

Today in West Civ we had our test on Ancient Egypt. To be honest, I was really nervous about this test because I feel like I missed a lot of days and then when we came back I had to do that really annoying challenge..... so I'm not sure what I'm going to get on the test. I hope it's a good grade!
I felt that I knew most of the answers and the review before class was good for me because I got to go over some of the things that showed up on the test. It was also good that people were asking questions about the test so I got answers from other people in the class that I went over.

Mr.. Schick is currently going to grade the tests...............

.....WAITING......

I got a 85%!!! That's better than I thought so it's good :)

just another cyber day assignment!

For our Cyber Work today we have to come up with a total of five questions that you think will be good for the test tomorrow. So here are the questions and answers I came up with:

1. What was the Egyptian life centered around?
 A: The Nile River

2. Every July the Nile River ______ and October the Nile __________.
 A: floods & recedes leaving good soil

3. Why was the Nile River a very important aspect in the Egyptians lives?
 A:  uses: bathing, washing, transportation and drinking

4. Name the rankings and their jobs.
 A: Pharaoh: seen as a god, Government Official - nobles, priests: apart of the "inner circle", Soldiers: there were few but they protected the high-ranks, Scribes: educated in writing (ties with the pharaoh (one of the high labeled ranks), Merchants: buy & sell; determined values of items, Artisans: had skills like craving, Farmers: poor & had to get very dirty (obviously), Slaves and Servants: very poor, the lowest ranked. Slaves: helped wealthy (household tasks), Farmers: raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigations of the Nile.

5. What form of "writing" did the Egyptians create?
 A: hieroglyphs



 

Pyramid Games......................................

Today in West Civ. because I wasn't there for class yesterday, I had to do this really annoying challenge.... It was really annoying and difficult because we had to match up all of the right things that would help us build a pyramid in Ancient Egypt and it was just... UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH.

But, my partner got the challenge right after 500 years of redoing the challenge over and over again! So now I won't have a zero! Yaaaay.  I didn't quite have the time to get the notes from today so I don't really have anything to write down so yeah

02.24.15

today I wasn't in class

second cyber day (:

So it was decided yesterday that it was too cold to go to go to school so we have another cyber day. Mr. Schick left us a assignment for cyber, it was too write about the inventions the Ancient Egyptians made. I'm just going to put it into a whole paragraph:

The Ancient Egyptians invented a lot of things like the black ink, first ox drawn plow, 365 day calendar and leap year, paper, first triangular shaped pyramids, organized labor, hieroglyphics as an early system of writing and sails.

The 365 Day Calendar and Leap Year: The Ancient Egyptians invented one of the first calendars by making and recording a lunar calendar system. A Lunar Calendar System is basically the same kind of calendar that we have today. The found this out based off of astronomy. At night, they divided the sky into 36 groups of stars called Decans which could be used to tell the time. One of the first calendars lost one day every four years so they made  another calendar that was based off of the star Sirius. It consisted of the 362 days and the extra quarter day. Medicine: Some of the beliefs of medicine were based off of myths and ancient legends. Some even believed that sickness came from bad spirits and would attempt to "cast" out the bad spirit. The ancient Egyptians also found out about medicine by increasing knowledge of the human anatomy and just common sense. There is evidence of people in there having the title of doctors and physicians. Although, physicians and doctors were in "Existence" before Ancient Egypt. In 2600 BC there was the physician named Imhotep to King Zozer. All the knowledge we know about the Egyptian medicine came from documents called papyrus (1900 BC &  1500  BC). Paper: The Ancient Egyptians not only made the first paper but they made one of the first forms of writing called Hieroglyphics. They invented this system of writing and the paper to write it on. Sails: It was very essential for the Egyptian people to have invented sails. In class we learned that Egyptian life was centered around the Nile River. Without sails and boats the people wouldn't be able to have transportation. Organized Labour: Egyptians are known to be one of the first people that had organized labour because of the pyramids they learned how to construct. These massive pyramids did not just spring up out of the ground, with organized labour and the Artisans they build the gigantic pyramids.

THE END :)

notes finally taken in class

 

Yesterday we had our first class in what felt like forever! We took notes on Perez (Egypt). I already took these notes but I wrote them down again for review. So here are my notes:

Geography:
  -Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River*
  -The Nile River flows from South to North ( the only River that does that in the world. )
  -Every July the Nile floods
  -Every October the Nile recedes and leaves rich soil.
  -Cataracts are where the river has heavy flows and their are rocks in the water.
  -There are five of them in the Nile.
  -It's the world's largest and longest river.
 
  -The triangular land at the top of Egypt is called the Delta.
  -They needed water for many uses: bathing, washing, transportation and drinking.

Pyramids:
  -The Great Sphinx of Giza (2555-2532 BC).
  -A recumbent lion - it's not lying down sleeping it's lying prying and protecting.



Daily Life:
  -Rankings: Pharaoh: seen as a god, Government Official - nobles, priests: apart of the "inner circle", Soldiers: there were few but they protected the high-ranks, Scribes: educated in writing (ties with the pharaoh (one of the high labeled ranks), Merchants: buy & sell; determined values of items, Artisans: had skills like craving, Farmers: poor & had to get very dirty (obviously), Slaves and Servants: very poor, the lowest ranked. Slaves: helped wealthy (household tasks), Farmers: raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigations of the Nile.

 

cyber day: prezi notes

so today was great because we had a cyber day and we didn't have to go to school! I like cyber days waaaaaaaaay better than regular school days but anyway, Mr. Schick wanted us to take notes on the Prezi presentation so here are my notes: (I didn't take notes on the whole presentation because I figured we finish it in class)

Geography
Daily Life
Pharaohs - the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: "Lord of the Two Lands"

Goddess & Gods
Pyramids
Geography
-Egyptian life was centered around the Nile River
-Water for drinking, for bathing and for transportation
-every July the Nile floods
-every October it leaves behind rich soil
-the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt

-managing the river required a technological break through in irrigation
Pyramids
-the Great Sphinx of Giza: built 2555 - 2532 BC
-a recumbent lion with a human's head
-oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily Life
-the rankings:
 Pharaoh
 Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
 Soldiers
 Merchants
 Artisans
 Farmers
 Slaves & Servants

-slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and child-raising duties
-they raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile

...

test review

So I did waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than I thought on the test! I got a 96% with only one wrong! I was really happy yaaaaay!

So today in class we didn't really do most of anything, Mr. Schick passed back our tests and re-announced the scores of the test. We went over the test and did the answers...and that was about it.
We didn't get to finish reviewing but the within the questions we did go over, I got the one answer that I needed and got wrong. I think we should be should starting the next section soon, when we get back to school.
bye

test day

today in western civ we took our tests on the Guns, Germs and Steel movie we were watching for the last couple of days. First, as promised, we had a fifteen long minute period to study before the test. That really helped because although I studied it was good to have a short review before the actual test. I think that the test was pretty easy, and it is easy if you 1. paid attention to the video (and watch it over again like I did) and B go over the great notes you took! Veronica, Karson and I had a great review too!

I think I did really good on the test too, I hope I did!

Presentations

Today in West Civ we presented our power points that we had to do on the things associated with Guns, Germs and Steel. My group went first today so after that, these are my notes:

-Smallpox:

• contagious effected for 10,000 years.
• no cure
• Europeans brought the disease over by trade items.
• Symptoms: fever, discomfort, headache, back pain, vomiting
• Transmission: directly from infected person
• Emergency: one case is treated greatly and you are isolated

Writing:

• Evolved about 50,000 years ago
• Called cuneiform
• used to writing stories

We didn't get to far in the presentations but the test on the video is Tuesday.

power points & things

Today in Western Civ we got on a website that was linked to Gun, Germs and Steel.
We had to get in groups of four or five people. I was in a group with Kendall, Carson, Elle, and Veronica. Let me just say that our power point is probably going to be the best one! (just saying ;) Especially the youtube video and the awesome gif at the end. 

We got the first pick, and the subject we picked was the history of the animals. So we are presenting tomorrow, and I think it'll be good! so yeah

gone

Today I wasn't in West Civ because I had a doctors appointment!

Guns, Germs & Steel

Today in West Civ we continued watching Guns, Germs, & Steel:

-In Middle East they have barley and wheat to eat; it's way better to eat then sago.
-Draa: the oldest kind of permanent settlement that has been explored (Birth of Settlement)
-Granary: a place "Draa" used to store and protect their crops (wheat and barley)
-They collected seeds and started growing them beside their settlements (becoming the first farmers)
-Changing the way a plant "lives" to help the people eat or harvest is Cultivation  of Domestication (it's also determining whether the fruits and plants are good enough to eat)

-They also eat spiders.
-The Chinese first grew rice, the Americans and the South Americans grew corn, squash, and beans, in Africa they grew sorghum, millet, and yams.

-Jared's Diamond theory is that the people who developed quickly with food, had GEOGRAPHIC LUCK

-But could plants really shape human development.
-Animal domestication- animals were used for meat (food), milk, hair and skin use.
-Animals became essential to settlement.
-With certain amount of animals, they were there to "help".
-After harvest the animals would eat the rest of cereal grain in return, they created fertilize the plants and grains.

-goats and sheep were among the first to be domestic animals.
-the only muscle they had is human because some animals weren't muscled.
-Carnivores aren't good at being domestic.
-Your ideal domestic animal should be able to give birth at the age of 1-2 years.
-If they're social animals and can control the leader, they can control the whole land.
-Only 14 species of animals have been domestic. (goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, Mithras, baly cattle).

-South America only had one species of animals - llama
-Asia, North Africa, Europe is where the animals originated
-Cows, pigs sheep, goats originated in the Middle East






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