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Mesopotamia:

• Cities and States that emerged in the area:
• Mesopotamia started with the emergence of ancient urban societies
• Some of the most highly developed ancient and socially complex states were in Mesopotamia
• Historically important cities: Uruk, Nipp

First group goes first cause of their first last name. wish our group good luck and we are presenting our project.

On Wednesday, we got out early so our groups got together and we went over our 8th grade projects.

i was absent this dayyyyyyy

Today we observed presentations and took notes

Today, we presented and took the test.

why it ended, how, when, and what group of people moved into that land

The Akkadian Empire:

Leader was Sargon the Great

They were taken over by the Amorites.

1950 BC

it is unknown why they couldn't defend themselves

Th

Mesopotamia was the first place to form a government. They invented the Pythagorean Theorem. Mesopotamia is Greek for land with two rivers. They built long docks on the rivers so they could trade. Euphrates and Tigris were the two rivers. There were

We started with the presentations today

I'm not sure why the numbers did this but I'll find out

1. Group one
   1. Native Americans crossing the land bridge
      1. They were following animals for food
   2. Christopher Columbus
      1. He was trying to get to Asia
   3. The Colonies
      1. The start

Today we present. My group goes first, do to the last name. Allmon, but we are prepared.

My group is Brittany, Autumn, Shelby, Becky, &myself. :)

Self invaluation;

I thought i was exciting, ahahah! Very enthustastic. I thought that i needed to extend on

Mesopotamia

• Centered around the Great Rivers Tigris and Euphrates and the land is watered by those rivers.
• Mesopotamia means "Land Between the Rivers"
• Located where modern day Irak and part of Syria are.
• South of modern Bagdad
• the alluvial plains of the r

Research about what people did with the Yellow River in China.

called the cradle of chinese civilization.

before the invention of dams the river was very prone to floods. Almost 1600 have been recorded. Some of these floods have been some of the most d

we were goin to present but we didnt have time we got the order of whos goin but thats about it

watched America story of us or something and learned a lot they took winter quarters in valley forge, and british took over new york for a while and we started using gorilla warfare.

absent

we finished our presentation today... and Mr. James is always right :)

Today in class we worked on our notes/daily blog. we also watched a presentation.

Today I learned about:

California gold rush

A sweddish immigrant became a mexican citizen name John Setter

James Marshal got hired and descovers gold dust in the bottle it

World History:

Status update and daily blog. Daily blog should be notes during the presentations.

Finishing up presentations. Make sure you have been taking notes throughout the presentations, if you have been absent, try to get them from someone else

Today we went over presentations. The Monroe Doctrine was created so Europeans wouldn't expand their colony. The trail of tears was when they forced Natives to walk over 1,000 miles to "Indian Territory." 

Today in class all we did was present. Tomorrow we will continue to listen to other groups' presentations in order to learn new information!

Continuation of group projects today. This is what I missed yesterday.... These are Ashtun's notes(Cause I was gone for cross country).

• Columbus traveled to America in 1492. On October 10th, he said that if they did not find land in 2 days then they w