Another Test Coming Up

Today we had western civ first mod which is good but i was a bit tired. in class today we got a worksheet that we needed to fill out definitions on them on the back there were questions on what person did what. the test on ancient egypt is on monday and i hope i do good because I'm trying to get my grade up. the terms we need to know are cataract, delta, nome, dynasty, pharaoh, ka, pyramid, maat, hieroglyphics, and papyrus. i feel pretty confident about the vocab words but not so much the people and what they did. the people we need to know are, Howard Carter, Namer, and Jean Francois Champollion. Im going to need to study the people a lot to make sure i do good on this test because i really need it. after we finished the worksheet we went over it and i had everything correct which is great. at the end of class when we had five minutes left mr. schick told us we could start out blogs but i didn't since i wouldn't be able to get anything done in five minutes.

Terms and Names

Today we took our unit test on the topic Mesopotamia and it was kind of hard, but it was also kind of easy. after the test we started working on our blog, tonight’s blog will be questions from the textbook.

1) 

   delta- A landform that forms from deposition of sediment that is carried by a                river.

   Narmer-Narmer was an ancient Egyptian king of the Early Dynastic Period. 

   pharaoh- A ruler in ancient Egypt.

   theocracy-a system of government in which priest’s rule in the name of God.

   pyramid- a monumental structure with a square or triangular base.

   mummification-a process in which the skin and flesh of a corpse can be    a preserved.

   hieroglyphic-writing consisting of hieroglyphs.

  papyrus- a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.

3)

   I believe that Egypt being surrounded by desert benefited them because it helped them with invaders and shut the invaders out, so they did not battle as often.

4)

   The Egyptians viewed the pharaoh as an ancient Egyptian political and religious leader of the people.

5)

   Egyptians mummified bodies so they could preserve the bodies for the next life.

 

Test Two Tomorrow

Today in class we reviewed for the test tomorrow, the test tomorrow is out of 75 points and it’s on the topic mesopotamia, here are some of the notes we reviewed today so we could study it tonight and do great on the test tomorrow.

• cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing.
• a city state is a form of government that rules over and writes laws for an area.
• ziggurat was a sumerian temple and city hall that was built on top of a mountain.
• the people lived in mesopotamia were polytheistic.
• a dynasty is an empire passing down the ruling to the next generation.
• an empire is a bunch of groups and states ruled over by a ruler.
• cultural diffusion is when an idea or product that spreads from one area to another.

i hope i do well on the text tomorrow because i really need to get my grades up or i can’t play a spring sport.

Egypt

Today we had western civ right after lunch so i was a couple minutes late to class. I was late to class because my family didn't wake up because we didn't hear our alarms. I didn't get to school until after lunch had ended. A big joke in the class is that everyone will say "Stefan is actually here today" because i always seen to end up getting to class late. Today in class we went over the homework we did and if we hadn't finished already we also got to finish a classwork paper we did the previous class. if we were finished everything then we took notes from the western civ textbook that is kept in the classroom. after finishing taking the notes we got to start our blog that is due today. i am going to share the notes we took in class the next blog probably because i dont have a lot of time until this blog is due.

powerpoint part 2

today we had a dress down day at school so class was very chill and comfy. we had wester cig class first mod today and all we did was take notes, here they are.

• neolithic age ( stone age ) was marked by advanced tool making and agriculture.
• what modern day country’s are where the fertile crescent was?

- iraq 

-syria

-jordan

-israel

• the district known as sumer occupied the land between the tigris and euphrates rivers.
• populations increased dramatically due to new irrigation techniques.
• cities and towns were founded, some was as many as 40,000 inhabitants.
• better food storage allowed for diversity in professions.
• sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as “cuneiforms”

there was many more notes that i took in class during the powerpoint but i will share them with you next time we have to blog. also we have off monday for presidents’ day so we will have a three day weekend which is great.

going over test and taking notes

Today we had western civ last. Today was also the first day of school of the week because we had off both Monday and Tuesday and we had a 2 hour delay today. In class today we went over the test we took two weeks ago I believe and we also started a power point and started taking notes, here they are. 

BEOFRE CIVILIZATION: PRESHITORIC ERA 

Þ  200,00 years ago, human species emerged in southwestern Africa.

Þ  14,000 years ago, a worldwide human race existed.

Þ  The agricultural revelation = Neolithic age.

Þ  Villagers were polytheists, worshiped multiple nature, human, and animal gods.

Þ  Invention of the wheel and plow made it possible to produce enough food to store it.

Þ  Populations rose up due to increased ability to produce a surplus of food.

Þ  Hierarchies appeared in village life.

I had to get my notebook before we 

Early River Valley Civilizations part 2

Today in class we continued to take notes from the text book pages 26-34, here they are.

Þ Hammurabi's code-holds people for their actions

Þ About 2350 BC a conquer harmed Sargon defeated the city state of Sumer.

Þ Sargon created the world’s first empire this empire was made up of several nations, people or previous independent states all under the control of just one ruler and all under control by that same leader. 

Þ The code lists 282 specific laws dealing with everything that affected the community, including family relations, business conduct, and crime. Although the code applied to everyone, it set different punishments for rich and poor and for men and women.

Þ Hammurabi recognized that a single, uniform code of laws would help to unify the diverse groups within his empire.

Þ Sumerians believed that the souls of the dead went to the "land of no return"

Þ The lowest level of society were the slaves

Þ Most women worked as merchants, farmers, and artisans

Þ Sumerians invented the wheel, sail, and the plow, and among the first to use bronze

Early River Valley Civilizations

Today in class I did not feel good at all. After class I left school. In class today, we didn’t do much besides take notes from out textbooks, here are some of them.

Þ  The earliest civilizations formed on fertile river plains. 

-These lands faced challenges such as seasonal flooding and limited growing area.

Þ  Projects such as irrigation systems required leadership and laws.

-the beginnings of a well, organized government.

Þ  Early civilizations developed bronze tools, the wheel, the sail, the plow, writing, and math.

-These innovations spread through trade, wars, and the movement of people.

Þ  Southwest Asia’s curved land and richness of the land is a place called the fertile crescent. 

Þ  The Greek meaning for the word Mesopotamia is “Land between the rivers”

-      The rivers framing Mesopotamia are the Tigris river and the Euphrates river.

Þ  The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flood Mesopotamia at least once a year.

-As the flood water receded it leaves a thick bed of mud.

Þ  The Hammurabis code held people responsible for their actions.

first test of the year.

Today in Western Civ we had class first mod and took a test. We haven’t had western civ since.  Monday, of last week so it felt kind of weird being back. In class today, we took out first test of the year in western civ and it was actually kind of easy. On the test it asked you at lot of things that I had in my notes and studied but there were also some hard questions on the test like it would ask you a question that I don’t ever remember seeing, hearing, or writing down in my notes. I wasn’t here for the first 15 minutes of class when we started the “Guns, Germs, and Steel” video so maybe that’s where the question came from but I’m not sure. There was also a question where it asked you to name 8 domesticatedanimals and they had to be over 100 pounds. And you could do 4 more for extra credit but because I didn’t really know the first eight I definitely knew I couldn’t get 4 more.