cyber day work

(clock/time) I believe the most important of the five things I have chose is the clock. Having a set standard time system allows them to advance much more as a civilization. they divided their days into hour like parts called obelisks. their clock used the motion of the sun or water to divide their days. by creating a form of time in whatever way they did choose to do it, created more organization throughout the land.

(farming) secondly i think their use of irrigation when it flooded was very important to the people of Egypt. with the new technology in their life, they created a way to farm all year round (even during the flooding season).  the technology they created was called a shaduf. it was a cross pole that was attached to a post in the ground. one end had a container attached , the other had a counter weight. when it flooded, the container was filled with the flood water from a channel before being raised up by the counter weight and swung where to the farmer wanted the access water to go.

(medicine) third, i think their advancements in technology was important to their culture. with these advancements, they are able to find out when people had medical illnesses. they were also able to find some treatments for these illnesses. they did this through just being educated mostly. with all the extra food going around, they were able to make these advancements such as surgery and things to take when they have certain illnesses.

(writing) 4th i picked writing. the form of writing they had in their time was called hieroglyphs. by creating this form of writing, they were able to keep track of mostly everything. by keeping track of things, it allowed them to advance in even more things.

(astronomy) 5th and probably least important in advancing their civilization there was astronomy. the one thing this did was help with was creating a calendar. the calendar and astronomy showed to them that their was about 365 days in a year and is divided into about 12 months. all this did was help keep track of things even more.

2-17-15

not enjoying the snow day with the upcoming try outs and stuck inside until them. but with his time i will be able to complete my first cyber day home work. with the social classes, next up after the scribes that wrote in hieroglyphics, there were the soldiers. these men used wooden weapons (bow and arrows along with spears) with bronze tips on the end. occasionally they would ride chariots. after them there was the white kilt class or upper class. then the religious and political leaders and lastly the pharaoh. these men were both political and religious leaders. they were in charge of ALL of Egypt and collected taxes, made laws, and defended Egypt from foreigners. Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh. Cleopatra VII was also a woman Pharaoh. there were over 2000 gods and goddesses, and they controled the lives of the humans. RA was the god of creation and the sun, there was another god from nubia (more south of the river) named OMAN, which translates to the english word hidden. over time they combine OMAN and RA to make OMANRA.

2-11-15

today we went over Egyptian geography for the first part of class. the main feature of geography of Egypt is the nile river. the nile is mad up three rivers. the nile flows south to north. the other thing we went over before i left was the social classes of Egypt. the social class is in the form of a pyramid and has the pharaoh at the top and the slaves at the bottom. another historical feature of Egypt is the Sphinx.

2-9-15

today we took our second test. i know i got the first question wrong because he went through the answers on that one because i asked about it. we got out first test back and i got an 87 which is not to shabby and showed the routine for when we get our tests back. the bell system is pretty cool as well. once we finished all of that i am completing this blog and then will watch more Brodie smith.

2-6-15

today we started the class doing nothing really. i watched a video on Brodie smith and frisbee shots. they are some great videos check him out! after that we finished our video and talked about test questions. we will be having our test on monday. to study i will review the notes i took through out the video. he says it will be a fairly good test so i think i will do good again. last test i got a B so now i will try to get an A on this one. one main topic to focus on is how some cultures have gotten more advanced then others. i also need to focus on the details of the food and locations effects on a growing civilization.

2-3-15

today we watched the video again and jared diamond explained what he thought made some races superior to others.he believed that farming was the key to a more advanced civilization. if you had the better crops that naturally grew in your area then you would probably be more advanced civilization. this explains the difference between new guinea and america. in new guinea, they had little to no crops growing in their area and if they did have a crop, it was not very filling ad low on protein and calories. since they had to spend a majority of their time on finding food, they had no time to work on other things. meanwhile, america had the best crops around the globe, so when people started to make civilizations there they had more then enough food. this allowed them to be more advanced in other things. he also touched base on domestic animals. there are 14 total animals in this world that are over 100 lbs and have been domesticated by humans. most of these have other great resources produced before they are killed for their meat.

2-2-15

today we watched a video on jared diamond called "guns, germs, and steel". this video is about the evolution of humans and how technology advances through time. the people of new guinea still live a very basic life that involves a lot of hunting and gathering. they compare them to the average citizen of new york and notice that the new yorkers have a lot more "cargo". because they have cargo, the people of new guinea automatically put them in charge and almost worship them. this leads people to believe that the white folk are just naturally in charge and have power, and the people of new guinea believe that because the amount of cargo they have. jared diamond is trying to unproved that thought because he believes otherwise.