West Civ Blog 1/30/13

I showed up late for West Civ today because i was getting my picture taken for Band class and we are a pretty disorganized group. When I did show up we were talking about the reading and took notes on a Prezi. The Prezi was about ancient Egypt and how they lived. All civilization in ancient Egypt were based around the Nile, which flows south to north, because of all the fertile land that was within a 1-2 mile radius of the Nile.

West Civ Blog 1/29/13

Today in West Civ Mr. Schick was not here, for academic team reasons, so we went down to Mrs. Fisher's room and began reading and taking notes on LO-3 about Egypt and the Pharaohs. The first Pharaoh was Narmer who combined upper and Lower Egypt, but the most famous Pharaoh of all was Tutankhamen. Tutankhamen better known as King Tut, ruled in the eighteenth dynasty from 1333 BC-1324 BC and his cause of death is still undetermined. There are some that suspect his half-sister/wife of murdering him so that she could take the throne. 

LO-1 Essay 1/28/13

Jared Diamond was correct in saying that some people were geographically lucky and others were not, because if the entire thought of civilization started in the Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia then in order for the animals and plants they used to survive they needed to stay on the same latitude. Staying on the same latitude however would leave out a lot of the world and only civilize certain places. This was what Jared Diamond said is the reason for Papua New Guinea not being as civilized as other places such as Europe or America. In Saying this Jared Diamond has proven that it’s not based on how you can adapt, because the New Guineans are some of the most adaptive people in that world, but on what is around you as you grow up.

West Civ Blog 1/23/13

Today in West Civ we re-watched the movie by John Green and took notes this time, because he talks so fast, and talked about some of the stuff that he said. We talked about how the people in the past headed for the shore because fishing was the best source of food. We also learned that Indianapolis is the largest U.S city not on a body of water. Chickens were brought up and talked about how humans are genetically engineering them to have small tiny legs and huge bodies to produce more meat therefore making more money.

West Civ Class 1/22/13

Today in West Civ we watched a video by John Green about the agricultural revolution and how it affected the rest of the world by giving it fishing, animals, and cereal grains like wheat. It also talked about how we evolved because of all the free time that people got in the fertile crescent so they could study other stuff like art or literature instead of farming or breeding. John Green tells us about how in 15,000 years we have gone from inventing the wheel to inventing the internet, airplane, and 99 cent cheeseburger.