Blog for last Friday 01/30/15

On last Friday we started watched the movie.  "Guns, Germs, and Steel" 

• A biologist named Jarod Diamond was in Papua new guinea and studied about birds, the new Guineans thought the White was superior than them because the white have a lot of stuff but they don't. Jarod Diamond disagreed with that.

02/05/15 Notes

Today we continued watched the movie "Guns Germs and Steel", here's the notes that I took.

• Farming in Papua New Guinea is 10000 years old.
• People here sometimes eat spiders for food.
• People has been used animal to make them get out.
• Animal is be used in protein supplement.
• People can only live if they are good farmers.

02/02 Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today we continued watched the movie. Guns, Germs, and Steel

• The successful Civilization have 3 common things
• Technology 
• Population
• Job opportunity 
• China - rice
• The Americas - corn, squash and beans
• Africa - millet, yams and sorghum.
• Farming in Papua New Guinea is like 10000 years old

01/29/15 TEST

Today we took a test which was open Blog, I have some notes on my blog but it was a mess, so it's difficult for me to realize the time that the event happened. And I can only figure out the rivers on the map part.

01/28/15 Test Review

On that day, we reviewed the powerpoint about the Mesopotamia, the test will be on Thursday. Here's the notes that I took:

• Indo-Europeans were people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the Near East
• King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as “Hammurabi’s Code” - laws that included “an eye for an eye” and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes
• Egyptian doctors wrote extensively on health issues and created potions and cures for a number of common ailments

Hopefully I can do a good job on my first S2 WestCiv test!

01/24/15 More on Mesopotamia

On Friday we continued talking about The Mesopotamia. Here's the notes. And we will have a quiz on Wednesday.

• a pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged, with many of the deities representing the natural elements of the world
• the Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a “mountain” of earth
• Sumer was conquered by the Akkadians c. 2350 B.C. - their gods took the place of previous gods and all were forced to worship them
• Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile; 
• Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea
• The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revered in lore and writing
• around 3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or “pharaoh

Jan 22,2015 From Prehistory to Civilization

Today's notes.

From Prehistory to Civilization, 3000-1200 B.C.

• Before Civilization: 
• The Origins and “Ages” of Human Beings
• 200,000 years ago a human species emerged in southwestern Africa
• 14,000 years ago, a worldwide human race existed
• The Prehistoric Era
• the Agricultural Revolution
• Populations rose due to increased ability to care for young children
• invention of wheel and plow made it possible to produce enough food for storage
• Villagers were polytheists, worshipped multiple nature, human and animal gods.