Thursday, March 17, 2011

between 400 and 500 bc
2 were against the persians and 1 was against them selvs.
the civil wore broke out among the city states of greece.
in 519 the persians conquered a groupe of people called asia minor
50 % of ships were destroyed

Thursday, February 17, 2011

egypt

we getalot of mytholgy
the had a very structured goverment
we also got many advanced buildings
we had contact with the egyptions
the noile river is undeinalable it is the sorce of life for egypt
almost all people live on the nile river
it floods every year
made isolation into a kingdome
the hixoes invaded around 1670
new and a ole kindome
king manyies ruled between 3100-3000 bc
controlloing the river was a big deal

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

foundations of western civ

  • prehistoric humans 
  • around 40,000 bc-10,000 bc
  • we were still chasing our food
  • there was some examples of money and trade
  • had basic technoligy like fire making and tools made of stone and bone.
  • had some examples of art and religion.
  • people were nomatic 
  • new stone age 10,000-4,000 bc
  • we begin to see humans to expirment with technoligy 
  • we also see humans start to settle down in one place .
  • they started the invention or aguculture( you pull out the bad stuff take the god and replant the good stuff.)
  • domestication of animals. 
  • males have some jobs and females have other jobs.
  • begins specialized labor
  • there were no female leaders
  • males are in leadership roles
  • invention of irragation
  • Mesopotamia 4000-1000 bc
  • the fertail creasent
  • through irragation they cN CONTROLL HOW MUCH WATER THEIR CROPS GET. 
  •   they are polythesistic 
  • we will see temples built to these gods 
  • temples are usually built in the center 
  • epic of  gildamesh - a story were we used to explain the story of the people lives in Mesopotamia. at one time the human being decided to write something done and made a story. the theme of this story was immortality 
  •  they mummified them selves 
  • sumer 
  • earliest city builders 
  • they were the first to figure out agriculture
  •  created the wheel
  • created the first system of writing called (cuneiform)
  • started to watch the stars and the movement of the sun 
  • they also started calenders
  • the acidians started the first empire 
  •    babylon
  •  earliest known written laws 
  • crimanil laws harsh punishments
  • uniform system of law
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

westren civ

  • he came up with an idea to fine out why the world is so poor and why parts are so rich
  • he wanted to know why Russia was able to dominate the world
  • hes passion is the study of birds 
  • he began watching birds at age of 7 
  • ever since he was 20 diamond has been making regular trigs to new gini
  • during his work he became more interested in the people at new gini.
  • wearing cloths is one of the western civilization things
  • there have been people there for 40 million years 
  • they are one of the most culturally diverse then most Americans but are so much poorer then most Americans
  • the people used the word cargo  regarding the items that were brought with western civ.
  • cargo was regarding power
  • new gini-ens thought power was based on race
  • diamond wants to go back to where everyone was equal to find out what happened and why the new gini-ens didn't advance in technology.
  • animals are used for evrything 
  • domestic animals began a big part of life.
  • mesapatimai is the first time we saw cows close to humans.
  • animal dung is used for fertalizer
  • goats and sheep were the first domesticated animals in the word
  • carnovoirs and bad pets for humans
  • people didnt use plows because they didnt have the animals t pull them
  • pigs came about 1000 years ago.
  • pigs only give you meat they dont give anything else and they didnt offer and mucle power.
  • todAY in new gini its still all human mucle power
  • there are 2 million wild animals
  • many arnt domesticated
  • some birds fish and reptiles have been domesticated
  • africa has not domesticated elephants.
  • animals need to get along with humans 
  • these animals need to be large
  • they should be plant eating
  •  they need to be able to reproduce at a young age and needs to be more then 2
  • they need to reproduce withen their second year.
  • the larger the animal the better
  • 148 animals have been domesticated
  • zebras have a mean streak and are sketchy
  • there is 148 domesticated animals that are over 100 lbs
  • there are 14 large domesticated animals  for any long period of time
  •  south america had one domesticated 
  • 13 were from eurasia
  • the big 4 live stock animals were native to the middle east.
  •  they made plaster out of lime stonnhaving more people in your socity lets you have more things created if you need them
  • they began forming steel
  • places like new gini never got advanced technoligy
  • in the 1960 people were still using stone tools 
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Monday, January 24, 2011

homework

English- do fitb3 for mnd
western civ.-read 7 pages of the book on his website   http://www.myjohncarroll.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=1726
math -none
earth science- read pages be ready for pop quizzes
german-????????????

new class

just started a new class with mr. powel pretty cool guy

Friday, January 21, 2011

no more rugby ...not looking to break my neck and not play football