WEEKLY BLOG 8/27-9/21

Week 1

8/27 Monday - Rules/expectations/groups

8/28 Tuesday - World history of the world

8/29 Wednesday - Watch the rest of world history of the world

8/30 Thursday - Go over notes from World history

8/31 Friday - Notes

-BC and AD

Before christ
Anno domini (Latin for “in the year of our lord”)

BCE and CE

Before common era
Common era

How old is the earth

4.6 billion years old

What are some of the biggest achievements in world history?

Invention of tools
Mastery of fire
Development of language
Invention of wheels
Invention of boats (the sail)
Etc etc

Where were the oldest human fossils found?

Africa- specifically Tanzania, Ethiopia, and recently Morocco

What is the difference between archeology and paleontology?

Paleontology is the study of life prior to almost 12,000 years ago and relies on the study of fossils
Archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery of artifacts

What is a paleoanthropology?

Study of the origins of present humans, using fossils and other remains
Hominization- the process of becoming like a human
A branch of archeology

Louis and Mary Leakey

Searched for hominid remains in Tanzania from the 1930’s- 1970’s
Found human like fossils in 1959 in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
Ushered many other findings over the decades

Donald Johanson

Discovered a 3.2 million year old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia named “Lucy” in 1974
This was the oldest known hominid remains found until 2015

500,000 years older than Lucy

Week 2

9/3 Monday - No school

9/4 Tuesday - Notes

Earliest Homo Sapiens

Found in Morocco(Africa) June, 2017
Oldest Homo sapiens fossils found so far

Orevuar oldest was 150,000 years ago
Fossils ack to date 300,000-350,000 years ago

Controversial within scientific community

Are they truly homo sapiens or early human life?

200,000 years ago humans were mainly human

Neanderthal vs. Cro-magnon vs Modern

Calling someone a neanderthal is insulting

Agricultural/Neolithic REvolution

Prior to more organized Ag people were nomadic and hunted animals and gathered plants
Living in groups of 25-70 people
The change is unknown and 10,000 years ago people started organizing farms
Like crops, hunting
Villages/towns created
As cities grew social class starts
Temps went up = population goes up

Civilization

Highly advanced society
Five traits

Advanced cities
Writing/keeping records
Specialized workers
Government/religion/education
Advanced technology/wheel/gun powder

9/5 Wednesday - Notes

Questions

What are natural borders? Deserts, valleys, lakes, mountains
What are some natural boundaries that would be helpful to early civilizations? Rivers-travel, water, food, irrigation, protection from enemies
Why are defensible borders important for a civilization to thrive? Protection

Chapter 2

Fertile crescent -
Mesopotamia - Greek - land between the rivers
City state - City and the surrounding territory controls it

Functioned like independent country

Dynasty - series of rules from a single family father to son
Cultural diffusion - Ideas spread from one culture to another
Polytheism - Belief in many gods
Monotheism - Belief in one god
Empire - Group of territories or nations ruled by a single ruler
What are some of the great empires in history?

9/6 Thursday - Notes/project assigned

More voc

Mandate from heaven

Ruler that has approval from gods
Unjust ruler can lose their mandate to rule

Dynastic cycle

The rise, fall and replacement of dynasties.

9/7 Friday - Get presentations handed out

Week 3

9/10 Monday - Work on presentations

9/11 Tuesday - Talk about 9/11

9/12 Wednesday - Watch the rest of the video of 9/11

What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks? Was in a classroom full of children, that were reading.
According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis? Calmness
Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away? Another attack could have been coming.
What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur? Make sure no more planes in the air, and nobody goes up. If someone didn't get out of air they were supposed to be shot down.
Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha? Bunker, communication system, and middle of country
Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service? Didnt want the enemy to feel like they won
What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11? That we were going to get the terrorists
Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job? He was brief a month earlier. Nobody knew, they took advantage of us.
How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed? Gratitude and closer.

9/13 Thursday - Work day

9/14 Friday - Presentation work day.

Week 4

9/17 Monday - Start Presenting Presentations

Phoenician

Basic Structure

King is an absolute ruler
Power was limited at times

Group of royals advised him
Wealthy families had a great influence

Political system favored rich
Law system was biased

Laws

Barely any laws known
Colonies

Crete
Rhodes
Thebes in Greece
Carthage
Lisbon in Spain
Tyre

Law of marine transaction

Traced to Phoenicia
Because they were so advanced they needed a modern law and legislation

Writing

Created the first alphabet
All modern languages are based off of this (Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek)

Timeline

Canaanited move to Canaan
Persians divided Penesia into four kingdoms

Geography

Coastline of Mediterranean Sea
Penosia is now Syria, Lebanon, and northern Israel

Land Features/Climate

Elevation + Land

Different parts are for animals, and plants
Hottest part - down South
Usually over 90 degrees
Lots of rain
Breeze from mountain

Natural Barriers

Mediterranean Sea

Food
Ships
Maritime

How did this help them?

Biggest trading
Maritime living near the sea/boering with sea/connecting with the sea
Advanced and superior boats

Ship Structure

Known for trading

Cargo and Trade holding boats

Ships

Horse figure
The boat shape helped ram into enemies
Traded with many surrounding cities

Two Types

Gauloi

Round ships
Trading ships

No specific name

War ships
Forecastle for bowmen
Rostrum to ram into others
Two sails to hide officers

Trade

Traded along the coast of Africa

Mountains

Defense
Source

Trees

Cedar trees
Fir Forests
Cedars were tall and packed with trees

Religion

Part of everyday life
Believed in multiple gods

Anath
Astarte
Baal

Ancient Greece Gods

Education/Gender Roles

Men did the active and physical jobs
Women did the jobs men did not want

Art/Entertainment

Good at glass making
Worked in jewelry, clay, metal,and wood
Robes

9/18 Tuesday - Presentations

9/19 Wednesday - Presentations

Harappans

Culture

Lived along the indus river, which is now Pakistan
Lived in bronze age
Located close to rivers

Location

Northwest of India
Named after the city Harappa(centered around Indus river)
Evidence of religious practices dating back to 5500 BC

History

Greatest achievements of the Indus valley civilization
Well known for organized layout of things
Rich discovery

Economy

Most important characteristics of the civilization trade

Area based off trade
High quality and profitable

Product

Cotton

Trade where?

Mesopotamia to China
Rivers

Agriculture(lots of farmers)

Brought food back to city

City workers

Pots
Cotton cloth
Beads

Traders

Bring materials in
Shipped out on river

Gods

Top of the classes

Kshatriya

Warriors and kings

Vaishya

Merchants and landowner

Sudra

Commoners, peasants, servants

Untouchables

Outcasts of the castle system

Religion

Religion - worshiped mother goddess
Mother goddess symbol of fertility
Few of Indus valley seals displayed the swastika
Lots of religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

9/20 Thursday - Gone

9/21 Friday - Gone

Babylonians

Geography

Capitol- babylon
Flat land with 2 rivers

Tigris and euphrates

Mountain appears in North and East
538 BC
Today part of Iraq and Syria
Very famous place to live
Merchants and traders passing through

How they Conquered

Akkadian empire fell to the Amorties
City states within mesopotamia
Largest and most powerful city at the time

Gov’t

Hammurabi most well known leaders

Famous quote “lex talionis”

An eye for an eye

Nobles and kings vs. assembly
Punishments for social class
Witnesses punishments
Accused of adultery

Women were drowned publicly
Men were whipped 10 times

283 codes/ laws

Advancements in Technology

Metalworking
Glassmaking
Textile weaving
Food control
Water storage and irrigation
Weapons
Hammurabi = empire
Steady environment and taxes collected

Economic

Center of trade

Gold, wood, copper, and manufactured goods

Agriculture bases
Social life changed very often due to many new people coming into the country

Entertainment

Kings liked to hunt
Lavish banquets
Polo
Board games (twenty squares)
Children played with miniaturized weapons of the time

Art

Kassite Period

Based on piety for king
Gods, lama/horse, lion
Stone monuments

Ziggurat and hanging gardens

Instruments

Told a story
Chanting
Religious ceremonies and entertainment
Lyre
Reed flute
Drum
Trumpet
Harp

Education

Make cuneiform signs by writing with a stylus on clay
Copy tablets on a slab of clay
For the young it was scribal type
8-9 years
Tablout house (school)
Language was Akkadian

Religion

Sky God Anu
Strom God Enlil
Water God Enki or Ea
Other gods arose later

Social Class

Free women and men rained legal and social status
King, aristocrats, free citizens, service men, slaves
Classes: Awilu, Mushkenu, Wardu

The Fall

After Nebuchadnezzar II died, the empire began to fall again
529 BC, persians conquered Babylon (Cyrus)
River was the only way to travel

Egyptians (Old Kingdom)

Geography

North East Africa
Arab Republic of Egypt
Memphis
Black and red land

Pyramids (main)

Djoser- first pyramid- 27th Century
Khufu- great pyramid- 2560 B.C.
Khafre- great sphinx- 2494 B.C.
Bent Pyramid- first true pyramid- 2600 B.C.

Religion

Rituals

To keep the Nile River from overflowing

Mummification

Unnatural of them to decay
Only kings had after life

Surrounding by things that remind them of life

Made with linen and plaster

Re/Ra

Their God
Came from immigrants from mesopotamia
Pharaohs

Son of Re

Identified with a local God of Thebes, amon

Amon-re, King of the Gods

Education

Reading, writing, mathematics, and religious intrusion.morals
Girls did not attend school

Did “womanly” duties

Lower class did not go

Lack of money
Not enough room

Art

Most entainment goes to middle kingdom
Had lots of art
Masks

Gender Roles

Females

Has the same rights for the most part
Mainly to have and raise kids
Take care of the house

Males

Head of gov’t
Head of the house
Raised boys to do their job

Politics

Women played an important role in gov’t and egyptian society
The king was a mandate from the Gods

Link betweens Gods and Humans

Gov’t was wealthy and built large monuments

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