Todays class

In class today we took the Ancient Egypt test. I thought that it was easy. There were not many questions on the test. If you played the pyramid game the last part of the test was really easy because it was all from the game. I hope that i did well on the test.

Cyber Day

5 questions to help for the test tomorrow 
   
1. During what month does the Nile River flood each year
a, July
b, december 

     c, October 

     d,August 

       2. Name what the pyramids were mainly made out of?

       3. Who was the woman who served as pharaoh? 

       4. What is hieratic?

a, Paper

b, writing words

c, drawing pictures

d, a book 

      5. Which way does the Nile River?

       a. North to South

       b. East to West

      c. South to North
      d. West to East

In class we played a game with partners. My partner was callie. The first group to finish got an A. I wish i could get an A too because that would help my grade. But i got a B for not finishing first. It was a confusing game and i thought it was all luck, but after many tries i finally built the pyramid for homework!

Todays class

In class by ourselves we watched videos and here are some notes

• In 802 A.D 
• the youngest son of Harun Al Ashid set camp at the base of the Pyramid of Kias.
• came with hundreds of stone masons, engineers and architects. 
• His quest was to find the pharaohs treasure and the discover the secret of the weapon which does not rust from blood and water and glass which bends but does not break.  

Ancient Egypt 

• 3000 BCE -332bce 
• The Nile river mad it possible for the Egyptians to live there 
• The Nile was plentiful and easy to navigate . 
• It flooded every summer 
• In doing it gave water to all of the crops
• They only lived by the Nile river 

Mummification

• process in which the Egyptians preserve the body of the pharaoh. 
• All of the internal organs were taken pout Thor his body
• The body is preserved in salt for 40 days 

Cyber day

1)The Calender: If they didn't have the calendar then they would never know what day it was/ when the Nile was going to flood

2) A second technological development that ancient Egyptians made was the stone circles. The stone circle shows that Egyptians were accomplished at marking time end. So they could predict when the floods were coming and that was very important because they would know to put everything awhile and to prepare before it. 

3)Black ink was one of the types of ink and dyes that the ancient Egyptians invented. The depth of the colors were utilized a lot in Egypt. The same colors and inks can and are seen today. The ink helped them  write in hieroglyphs and in hieratic.

4) Egyptian are the ones who invented the door lock. When they invented the door lock it was with a key to unlock and lock the door. Furthermore, now all we have to do is turn the lock on the door to lock it. However, who would have know it was from the Egyptians.

5) Another invention was the pyramid. It was one of their biggest inventions .

In class today we took many notes on the powerpoint that mr. schick was teaching about

• Slaves/ servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties 
• raised wheat, barely lentils, onions 
• Benefitted from irrigation of the Nile 
• Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the after life
• Money/ barter system was used 
• merchants might accept bags of grain 
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments
• Scribes wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic 
• Soldiers used wooden weapons w/ bronze tips and might ride chariots 
• over 2000 gods and goddesses 

Class

Today in class he handed back all of our tests. I didn't do well. Also we reviewed the tests and i made corrections because on the final exam we will have to know everything we are learning now.

I was not in school today because i am sick still

I was not in class today because i am sick. Hopefully i can come back tomorrow.

Test

Today in class we took the test. I feel pretty confident that i did well. i hope i get a good grade so that my class grade can be high. After we watched the movie it made me realize how lucky we are to have so many things and others dont. We are geographically blessed!

Class

In class today we reviewed for our test on Monday. Our test will be on the video "Guns, Germs, and Steel". Also we handed back our tests. i got a 85 and I'm very happy with that grade! Hopefully this test on Monday will be another good grade i get back.

class

In class we finished the movie here are some notes

Invented plaster
- too keep house water proof
-warm in winter
- cool in the summer
-limstone
-1,000 degrees heated
- heated for days
-geography was the answer. They were "blessed"

Today in class we continued to watch the movie.

• talked about domesticated animals.
• 14 animals 
• Gotas
• sheeps
• pigs
• cows
• horse 
• donkey
• bactrcian camels 
• arabian camels 
• water buffalo
• llamas
• reindeer 
• yaks
• mithons 
• bailly cattle 
• none of those animals are from australia, africa or north america 
• at the end in the movie, it said that the middle east was geographically blessed 

In class we watched more of the movie and continued to take more notes.

• China grew rice.
• America had corn, squash, and beans.
• Africa had millet, yams, and sorghum.
• People have been farming for 10,000 years.
• They eat giant spiders for protein sometimes.
• Most productive crops=Makes for most productive civilization.
• It came down to geographic luck to get all of these awesome crops, said Jared.
• They used animal dung as fertilization back then.