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.