Prezi on Egypt notes

Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding titles: ‘Lord of the Two lands’ and ‘High Priest of Every Temple’

Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River

Water for drinking, for irrigating, for bathing, and for transportation

Every July floods

Every October it leaves behind rich soil

the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt

managing the river required technological breakthrough in irrigation 

The Great Sphinx of Gi:  built 2555 - 2532 BC. A recumbent lion with a human’s head It is the oldest monumental state in the world.

Video: 1802 AD: youngest son of  Haroon al asheed set camp at the base of Keyups. He came with great army with warriors, 100s of stone maisons, engineers, and architects. His quest was to find the Pharaohs treasure.

Classes:
Pharaoh
Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
Soldiers
Scribes
Merchants
Artisans
FarmersSlaves and Servants

Slaves/Servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties

raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Bile

Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battle and scenes in the afterlife

Money/barter system was used - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later, coinage came about

Scribes kept record, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments

They wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic

Soldiers used wooden weapons (bow&arrows, spears) w/bronze tops and might ride chariots

Upper class, knows as the “white kilt class” - priests, physicians, engineers

As ‘Lord of the Two Lands’ the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt. He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, & defended Egypt against foreigners

Hatshepsut was a women who served as pharaoh 

Cleopatra 12 also served as pharaoh, but much later (51 30 BC)

Gods and Goddesses:  over 2000 gods and goddesses. They “controlled” the lives of humans

Guns, Germs, and Steel Test Answers

Today during class, we went through our test we had on yesterday. I forgot to write the honor pledge on my test so I got more points off. I wanted to start the test quickly because I was scared that I would forget all the information I tried to remember.

TEST ANSWERS:
1. Jared Diamond has had many of and hobbies. Which is NOT one of them?
- Nature photographer

2. New Guineans use the term "cargo" to describe
- material goods

3. The white men who originally colonized Papua New Guinea believed all of the following statement, EXCEPT
- New Guineans are a clever and resourceful people

4. All great civilizations have had three things in common. Which is NOT one of them?
- Superior weapons

5. 13,000 years ago, most people lived as
- Hunters and gatherers

6. It's still possible to find people living in temporary shelters for weeks or months at a time, as long as they can keep feeding themselves. As seasons change and animals migrate, they move on to the next valley or ridge looking for new sources of food. Today, these people are most likely to be found
- on a remote island just north of Australia

7. In the video, we saw New Guineans eating something called sago. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about sago?
- Sago can be stored for a long time

8. Which area was best suited for civilization to flourish?
- The Fertile Crescent

9. In the video, a Canadian archaeologist was seen exploring the village of Drah'. What is significant about Drah'?
- Drah' is probably the first permanent village anywhere in the world

10. The focal point of the village of Drah' was a unique structure, which we now recognize as a
- granary

11. Why did people not stay in Mesopotamia?
- Climate change

12.What must a group of people first do to begin to establish a permanent settlement?
- Domesticate crops

13. According to Jared Diamond, what is the most important factor in determining a civilization's success?
- Location

14. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a good domesticated plant?
- It must be consumed quickly

15. Which of the following characteristics is NOT ideal for domesticated animal?
- It is a carnivore

16. How many useful, domesticated animals weighing over 100 pounds have there been in 10,000 years of domestication?
- 14

17. Which of the following is not a useful, domesticated animal?
- Zebra

18. Ant two point on the globe that share the same ___ automatically share the same length of day, and often share a similar climate and vegetation.
- Latitude

19. This is the study go human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of ancient artifacts.
- Archaeology

20. Africa
- Sorghum

21. the Americas
- Corn

22. China
- Rice

23. The Middle East
- Wheat

24. Papua New Guinea
- Bananas

25. Which of the following statements would Jared Diamond mostly likely say?
- "Geographic luck separates the haves form the have-nots"

Guns, Germs, Steel Test

Today during class, we had the Guns, Germs, and Steel test. I thought the test pretty easy. I wasn't sure about maybe 2 questions on the test. There was questions on the native plants in different places, granary, the 14 domesticatible animals that weigh over 100 pounds, Jared, cargo, Papua New Guinea, ext. I think I scored a score of 80 or up.

Guns, Germs, and Steel presentation day

Today during class, some student got to present their presentation from thursday. We were assigned to a topic we had to research on and have to present it. Our group didn’t have a chance to present because there wasn’t enough time. We had the group with the topic food and disease to present. The group with food talked about the animals cattles, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, llamas, and zebras. The group with the topic disease or germ, talked about smallpox and malaria. 

Notes (for our group):
Food-
- Wheat: Cultivated by the earliest Neolithic farmers in the hills and valleys of Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq over 13,000 years ago, wild-growing wheat has since changed beyond recognition. In the wild, as it still grows in those places today, wheat evolved to shatter in the late summer breeze, spreading its tough-coated seeds far and wide. 

- Corn: Corn's wild ancestor, teosinte, is native to southern Mexico, and formed the staple of the earliest agricultural communities throughout the Americas. From its origins in central America, the crop spread up the western coast to northern America, and penetrated the jungles of Panama and Colombia to reach the fertile terraces of the Inca Empire in the South.

- Rice: Rice is believed to have been domesticated nearly ten thousand years ago in China. Related to wheat and other wild-growing cereal grasses, the plant grows to around four feet and thrives in submerged land in the coastal plains, tidal deltas and river basins of tropical, semitropical, and temperate parts of the world.

- Sorghum: growing as high as 15 feet, sorghum is especially valued in hot and arid regions of the world, for its natural resistance to drought and heat. Its grains are usually mashed into a pulp, boiled and eaten, while its tough stalks can be used to make brooms and brushes.

Guns, Germs, Steel Presentation

Today during class we got into groups and write or take notes on a topic that we got to choose. My group had second pick and we picked food topic. The food topic we had to write about wheat, rice, corn, and sorghum. Since we had 4 people in our group, we decided that each one of us write about one type of food. I wrote about rice.

Here is the notes:
Rice was believed to be domesticated about teen thousand years ago in China. Rice grows to around 4ft and thrives in submerged land in the coastal pains, tidal deltas and river basins of tropical, semitropical, and temperate parts of the world. When rice seedlings are 25 to 50 days old, they are transplanted to a paddy that has been enclosed and submerged under 2 to 4 inches of water. The water has to remain in the field throughout the growing season. Rice's importance has spread beyond Asia. Rice has become an essential element of a successful agricultural package around the world.

Guns, Germs, and Steel #3

Notes:

- Newgerrians didn't technologically because they were stuck having to find food for them to survive.
- Fertile crescent: People started moving out because the people there over exploited the land, tapped out the land, cut down all the trees, cut the grasses, ext.
- The lands with the same latitude as the fertile crescent share similar geography. To the west and the east of the fertile crescent, the lands were similar.
- 20 million tons of wheat a year are grown in the Americas. Wheat is not a native plant to the Americas but it is grown very well in the Americas.

Question: Why do white men have so much cargos? And we Newgerrains don't have a lot?
Answer: If Newgerrians experienced good geography, they would have advanced tremendously and want more. But because they don't have good geography, they were not able to advance.

Guns, Germs, and Steel Video #2

Today during class, we are able to get through 20 mins of the video that we left off last time. Notes on the video:

Crops grown:

Middle East: Barely and wheat

Drah: It was the first actual settlement by humans ( known )

Domestication: Humans changing the way of nature

Once the Middle East started growing barely, next China grew rice, then North America grew barely, corn, squash, and beans, lastly, Africa grew Millets, sorghum, and yams.

GEOGRAPHIC LUCK: living in a place with grains that you can store

Animal Domestication: Humans controlling animals.

Goats and she eps were the first animals to be domesticated.

Around the earth lots of places used animal power in order to get the things they needed around but in Newginni, they only had human strength and pigs. They didn't have a lot of other animals in their place.

Ideal Animals: Animals that give birth at 1 or 2 years

If social animals are together and humans control the leader of the herb of animals, humans will be able to control all the animals in that herd.

14 animals that weigh over 100 pounds that are domesticable are:

Goat, sheep, pig, cow, horses, donkey, bactrian camels, arabian camels, water buffalo, llama, reindeer, yak, mithan, balli cattle. These are located in North Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America. Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats are form the middle east.