2/27/15

today in class we took our Egypt unit test. It was not very hard, as long as you payed attention in class. Most of the answers Mr.schick kinda gave us before the test and he also gave us 20 minutes to study. I dont think many people failed i got an 85 %

2/25/15

Today in class we finished the unit. The Nile river was a major life provider for the egyptians. Upper Egypt was was 500 miles. Lower egypt was very wide. The pharaoh was a human on earth but was thought of as a God. The pharaohs could be fired however. Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they called maat. if they wanted ti do well i life you would be on the pharaohs good side. In Egypt woman had respect and a type of equality. Woman could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands. There were even a few women pharaohs. Heiroglyphs type of writing was like pictures. Hieratics were more like groups of letters. hieratics were origanilly written on papyrus. Papyrus was like a type of paper that was put in those huge scrolls. They made a 365 day calendar that followed the moon scale. Egyptians noticed things that should be planned out and prepared. Egyptians were very big on human anatomy. The used the dead bodies to find out remedies and cures. Wooden sail boats helped transport things up the Nile and you to go both ways on the Nile. Pyramids were very large they were covered in marble. Thousands of years later they are still standing and must have been engineered perfectly. stone sculptures and interior paintings in regulated poses in profile. people lived in adobes. slaves werent the only people to build a pyramid.

2/24/15

Today in class we played a game. This game is hard and continuously will send you back to the start. There is a hack to winning the game and mr.schick did not tell anyone until the end of class. But if you dont finish fast then you will fail the assignment. But Mr.schick told everyone in time to not fail everyone

2/23/15

in the first video it talks about the pyramids and how they have shiny plates over them. There was a big stone that if you moved led to the grave. but finding the stone that moved proved to be very hard so the leader decided to just cut open a hole in the pyramid to get to the tomb. There was no treasure in the pyramids when the royal got in and there was a sarchophogis that didn't have a lid. There are many passages and rooms in the great pyramid. especially since it is just supposed to be a tomb. there is a queens chamber and then another room and it called the subterranean chamber because it is underneath the pyramid. there is a corridor that has a gallery and at the end of the corridor there is a passage that leads to the grotto. There are also shafts an they point north and south.The entrance remains sealed to this very day.

in the second video it starts of with a mummy of a man named heiriclyties and he died in Egypt in the first century he was around 20 years old. Mummification is so that you can preserve the body and the internal organs are taken out except the heart. but in this man the heart was removed and the lungs were in tact. the body was put in salt until all moisture was eliminated. perfume oils were rubbed on the body. and thick layers of resin were used to glue the wrapping strips. there was a mysterious pouch placed on the chest and there was an ibis and the bird was mummified with the human. there was a arge linen cloth wrapped around the mummy and there were paintings on the cloth and his name was written at the feet. due to this mummification process the body is with us today.

in the third video it is john greene talking about egypt. ancient egypt was probably the most influencial on the ancient river valley. The ancient egyptian civilization lasted from 3000 BCE to 332 BCE. the nile was regular and navigable and left very good silt for planting season. egyptian civilizatuons only excisted on the nile. the nile used basin irrigation. So the egyptians got to mke surplus amount sof food and didnt have to do alot of work. the pharoh was very close to a god and was expected to act like a god. rhe pyramids show a lot of controll of the social population. The pyramids were built by alot of peasants and slaves. Since the pharohs were thought of as gods they deserved the best living places. but when draughts started pharohs started and an intermediate period. Hidden gods tend to do well because they are omnipresent and many people devoted their lives to these gods.there was a group that conquered all of egyptians and then they became parts of the egyptians and the the egyptians exiled them. there was on pharoh that was a woman and expanded egypt the most. there was a pharoh that is very similar to kim jung il and he tried to create a new god.

2/20/15 Cyber day assignment

The Egyptians have made many inventions. Part of being a great civilization was having technology. Here are some of the inventions in order from importance. I think the most important technology development was Egyptian medicine. They were the first to use magic and medicine men. The Egyptians had a document and talked about the organs. They did bisectimies and put all the body organs in jars, where they also preserved spices. Doing work like that they learned alot about the human body. Another Egyptian break through was the Egyptian Astronomy. The Egyptians developed a 365 day calendar. The calendar had the days divided into 12 months with around 30 days. The Egyptians also invented stone circles and sun dails that showed that they knew about time. The sundail was used to make days. The Egyptians also were very into astronomy. Many of their buildings were aligned with stars and constellations. The Pyramids were located to reflect constellations and monuments were to reflect the cardinal directions and important times of the year. The Egyptians also invented the bed. The first bed was a shallow chest with bedding placed over top and to try to make it soft consisted with ropes stretched across a wooden frame. In their bed they slept and entertained socially and ate.

2/18/15

Ancient Egypt 

• farmers raised wheat, barely, lentils, onions benefitted from irrigation of nile & control where the water went 
• the art was in perfect 90 degree angle to the viewer 
• a farmer used plows and whips
• clothing light color & fabric 
• there was alot of heavy eye makeup on Egyptians to minimize harsh effects of the sun
• artisans- decorate homes for the rich 
• thought of as historians
• carve statues & reliefs showing military battles & scenes in the after life 
• combinations of animals and people to make the perfect species in their art
• merchants
• went to a money system and not just a barter 
• money was made
• scribes kept records & were educated & told stories
• preformed any kinds of surgeries 
• wrote in hieroglyphs 

February 17,2015

Ancient Egypt
hateshepsut was a woman pharoh
Cleopatra VII was a pharoh 51-30 BC
there are over 2000 gods & goddesses
they controlled  the lives of human being
john greene has a video about ancient greece
the great pyramid was the largest building for 3800 years
no ancient Egyptian crown has ever been found

February 11, 2015

1 geography

• egypt is centered around the nile river
• it flows from south to north 
• 3 branches of the nile 
• nile is over 4000 miles long 
• this water was very important for Egyptians 
• used water for drinking 
• irrigating 
• bathing
• first people in the world to invent a sailboat 
• every july the river floods 
• every October it leaves rich soil called silt 
• the delta is a marshy triangular area of fertile soil ( the greek letter for d is delta and in the shape of a triangle )
• one most significant break through is irrigation 

2 Pyramids

• the great sphinx of Giza built 2555 - 2532 BC 
• sphinx is a recumbent lion with a human head 
• oldest monument in the world around 4500 years old 

3 Daily Life

• Pharoh - king 
• gov. officials - Nobles & priest -white kilt class 
• soldiers 
• scribes - knew how to write there are not many of them
• merchant- middle class, barter system
• artisan- make stuff 
• farmers - dirty poor 

Today in class we took the Guns, Germs and steel test. It was not very hard and i knew all the answers. I took down a lot of notes and studied them all so i think that is helpful for me passing the test. the test asked everything that was covered in the video.

friday january 6

today we finished watching the video. Mr.Diamond decided in the end of the movie that the only reason the new guineans have not evolved is because they were not geographically blessed; they do not live the fertile crescent with good farm land and alot of sources of food with good animals that could be domesticated. they live in the middle of the rainforest with very little food sources with food that you can actually have a good diet with. the only animals they have is pigs that are not good farm animals.

wednesday january 4

today in class we had a lock down and shelter in place drill. mr.schick went over all the guidelines and how if we didnt have drills we would not be in a good situation. That our class did very good with the drill and practiced it like it was a real thing. we then started class and class was not very long so we got closer to the end in the movie

Tuesday February 2

today in class we watched the rest of the video and we talked about animals that have been domisticiated and used as farm animals. there are only 14 types of animals that have been domesticated.

monday February 2 , 2015

today in class we watched a video about jared diamond. Jared diamond wrote a book called guns, germs and steel. this video was about papa new guinea and how many of the people there act like it is still the stone age. The people do not wear alot of clothes. and do not have a lot of material goods. one man in this video walks up to jared and asks him "why do you white men have so much cargo but us new guenians have none" and that question really got jared to start thinking. the whitemen that first started visiting when they came and realized they had much more stuff then people from new guinea they instantly started feeling more superior. Diamond noticed that all great civilizations have three thngs in common advanced technology, large populations, well organizd work fare. then the video started comparing new guinea to one of the first ever civilizations called draa