Friday, January 30, 2015

friday january 30,2015

today in western civ we took a test, on this test we were allowed to use our blogs. I think that that made the test alot easier. there was some information how ever that i did wish i would have added to my blogs

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

1/27/15

today in west civ we had a sub because mr.schick wasnt in class. so we used this class to study for a test tomorrow.
Prehistory to Civilization 3000-1200 B.C.

  • a human species started in southwest africa
  • earliest prehistoric age -Paleolithic age (stone age)
  • people were hunters and gathers
  • humans migrated around this time and were not advanced

  • Neolithic age is the new stone age
  • the neolithic age brought advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
  • during the neotlithic age humans became sedentary group that didnt migrate
  • humans bodies started to change 
    • heads got bigger because there brains got bigger
    • started to not be as hair
  • wives stayed home and had kids and took care of kids
  • the kids could be breast fed until they are 4 
  • men had many different kinds of jobs
  • this is when hierarchies
  • the population started to rise
  • the religion of villagers is polytheist they worshipped things of nature
  •  they were located in the fertile crescent / Mesopotamia 
  • in a village called sumer the sumerians started 
  • jobs in the village:
    • priest(most scholarly)
    • tradesmen
    • artisans
    • politicians
    • farmers
  • kings , family dynasties and city states started
  • invented earliest form of writing called cuneiform 



Tuesday, January 20, 2015

1/20/15

today in class mr.schick explained to us his blogs. that we need to do one every day that we have a class. the blogs will effect our grades alot. he also told us that when it comes to using our laptops in class we will not be using them as much as we did last semester.