Mondays Classwork

1. zesus , jupiter
Posiden , neptune
Hades , Pluto
Hera , Juno
Ares , Mars
Athena, Minerva
Hermes , Mercury
Aphrodite , Venus
Artemis, Diana
Apollo, apollo

HW # 2

1. Civil War - was a bloody war that happened between 88-82 B.C.

2. Julius Caesar - Was a daring leader who brought Rome to order

3. triumvirate - a group of three leaders

4. absolute ruler - one who has total power

5. augustus - exalted one

6. Pax Romana - The period of peace and prosperity

7.gladiators - professional fighters

Changes in Rome

1. Rome's population numbered between 60 and 80 million
people

2. the Roman Empire included more than 3 million
square miles

3. About 1 million people lived in the city of Rome

I think that when more people came to Rome being overpopulated may have been a problem.

Q; What role did Julius Caesar play
in the decline of the republic and
the rise of the empire

A: Julius Caesar was the leader. He took control of the city and what needed to be done to make the city better. He started colonies where the landless could own land and increased pay for soldiers. He also helped poor people to get jobs for themselves.

HW#4; The Creation Myth of Rome

1. Romulus and Remus were both raised away from their uncle because it wasn't lawful for his sister to be pregnant before the age of 30.

2. They both became to be rulers of their land because they deiced to kill their uncle and to over the land.

3. Romulus became ruler of the land because him and his brother got into a fight and Romulus killed Remus.

4. 753 B.C.

5. 1000 B.C.

6. The word Latin comes from the tribe called Latin that was developed in Rome

7. The River Tiber

8. The myth is basically a store or legend that was told. A historical fact is a fact that can be proven.

9. The creation myth is more interested because the myth might make the story more funny or more enjoyable to listen to.

10. Our creation myth is the story of Adam and Eve.

Brahman and the three Gods video

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HW #8

1. Babylon was the first civilization on earth to have a written legal code.

2. Hammurabi's Ordeal was a painful even deadly test of gilt or innocence. This law was in affect when someone was accuse of committing a crime. Their tongues would be burnt and examined by the Mobashi. Only the Mobashi can tell if the person is guilty or innocent. The Ordeal is still practice in some tribes.

3. Hammurabi's law helped create the Bible.

4. Hammurabi did not invent these laws. He just wrote them down. 

Current Events # 2

China : Effort to Attract Foreign Students
By : Edward Wong
September 30, 2010
nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/asia/30briefs-Chinabf.html?_r=1&ref=china

The main topic of this article is that China is trying to attract more foreign students to study for degrees.

China is trying to attract more foreign student. They are planning to get 150,000 foreign students to study for degrees by 2020. They are offering more scholarships to the students and asking other governments to do the same. They are doing this because its a plan of the country to get more power or influence through culture and diplomacy.

I choose this article because were are studying about civilization in Global class. China is one of these civilization that we are studying.

This article is related to what were are studying because it had to do with civilization. One of the eight factors of civilization was learning.

HW #7

Fertile Crescent - An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia , between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean sea.

Silt - a fine soil carried in water of rivers.

Irrigation - the bringing of water to crop fields by means of canal ditches.

City-State - a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.

Dynasty - a series of rulers from a single family

Cultural Diffusion - the process of an new idea or product being spread from one culture to another 

Polytheism - the belief in many gods

empire -  brings together several peoples, nations,  or previously independent states under the control of one ruler

Map question 1

The Tigris and Euphrates River valley are found in Mesopotamia. 

Map question 2

This valley runs right through Mesopotamia.

Video 1 question

Language was created because the Sumerian's needed to keep record of what happened each year.

Video 2 questions

1. The symbols in the cuneiform represent wedge shapes. 

2. The wrote on clay. They find clay and make them into a tablet by flattening them . Then they use a stylus that they cut from reaves to write. then they place the clay in the sun so it can harden.

 

3. they only drew on clay and the clay became tablets.

HW # 6

Map question 1
  - Europe had the most earliest agriculture sites.
Map question 2
  - Africa favored the most development of agriculture before 5000 B.C.

1.
Nomad - are people who wonder from place to place rather than making a permanent settlement.

Hunter-gatherer -  Nomadic groups
whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant
foods

Neolithic revolution - or the agricultural
revolution.The far-reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of
farming.

Slash-and-burn farming - Is to cut trees or grasses and burned to clear a field.

Domestication - The taming of animals.

2.

-The shift from food gathering to food producing
-Change in climate
-Rich supply of grain
-More farmers
-Farming providing a heavy source of food.

HW # 5

First Video
1. The nation that this video focuses on is Ethiopia.

2. This discovery was made in 1974

3. Lucy is 3.2 million years old

4. Bipedal means having two feet.

5. Human beings evolved from the continent of Africa.

Video 2


1. Hunters and Gatherers were constantly on the move following  herds.

2. They also collected wild berries, nuts , and greens to eat.

3.  No, I don't think Lucky was a Hunter&Gatherer . I don't think so because there were new ways discovered to grow wheat.

Hw 4

1. Absolute location is locating a cretain place using coordinates.

2.A. 34 degrees North latitude and 118 degrees West longitude. 

2.B. 49 degrees North latitude and 2 degrees East longitude.

2.C. 34 degrees South latitude and 18 degrees East longitude.

3. Relative location describes a place in terms of its relation to other places and things around it.

3.A. London , England relative location is the Thames river.

4. A relative location of Queens , NY is JFK International Airport.

First post on this blog.

Noel W.
Peiord 6.