Bye Blog!!!
This is the last class of human geo for forever. Overall this class was really fun. I learned a lot and human geo was pretty interesting. I also liked watching jeopardy and looking at pictures of Mr. Schick's dogs. It was a great semester. I also did pretty good in this class and it wasn't too difficult. I also have Mr. Schick for Western Civilization. So that will be fun. Okay bye blog!!!
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
the test
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I just took the test. It was pretty easy, and was short. The only question I didn't know was the one about how many cows are in the us. Overall I think I did pretty good, and hopefully it raises my grade. I also liked listening to the soothing music. Now we are reading the comments, Lolz. Ok bye :)
I just took the test. It was pretty easy, and was short. The only question I didn't know was the one about how many cows are in the us. Overall I think I did pretty good, and hopefully it raises my grade. I also liked listening to the soothing music. Now we are reading the comments, Lolz. Ok bye :)
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Test tomorrow
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Tomorrow we have a test on the video, Guns, Germs, and Steel. We watched this video in class last week. I am currently studying the notes that I took during class. I feel pretty good about knowing the info for the test. But I will still continue studying for it. In class we also watched teen jeopardy. It was interesting and funny. I also knew a lot of the answers to the questions that the contestants were asked. Anyway I hope I do well on the test, and hopefully it will raise my grade a little.
Tomorrow we have a test on the video, Guns, Germs, and Steel. We watched this video in class last week. I am currently studying the notes that I took during class. I feel pretty good about knowing the info for the test. But I will still continue studying for it. In class we also watched teen jeopardy. It was interesting and funny. I also knew a lot of the answers to the questions that the contestants were asked. Anyway I hope I do well on the test, and hopefully it will raise my grade a little.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Guns Germs and Steel (the end)
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Today we finished watching guns, germs and steel. Here are my notes:
Today we finished watching guns, germs and steel. Here are my notes:
- None of the 14 domesticated animals are native to Papua New Guinea.
- All of these animals were from North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- These are the places that advanced
- Cows, pigs, sheep and goats are native to the middle east
- Fertile Crescent
- Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 9,000 years old
- town in Middle East
- used plaster
- and other tech advancements
- about 100 people lived there
- Papua New Guinea doesn't have tech advancements
- doesn't produce enough food for everyone to have time to develop tech advancements
- Fertile Crescent
- Abandoned
- over use of land
- not fertile anymore
- no water
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Guns, Germs and Steel continued
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Today we continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. Here are my notes:
Today we continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. Here are my notes:
- People started growing their own food and stying in one location.
- became the first farmers in the world.
- Plant domestication=farming
- Chose plants that were the best and used them to grow more of the same quality produce.
- Places where the first farming happened
- China-rice
- Americas-corn, squash, beans
- Africa- sorgum, millet, yams
- Civilizations advanced because of farming
- exception: Papua New Guinea
- Why no civilization?
- Only have sago, taro root, and bananas
- no grain
- can't be stored
- low protein
- People with access to the best crops had the best civilization
- GEOGRAPHIC LUCK
- 9,000 years ago
- animal domestication
- people control movement, feeding, and breeding of animals
- used meat, milk, and fur/skin
- can eat stubble after the harvest and fertilize the ground
- Goats and sheep were the first to be domesticated
- after came pigs, cows, and horses
- could pull a plow through the fields, help with farming
- Papua New Guinea only has pigs
- can only get meat
- no milk or fur
- can't help farm
- 14 animals have been domesticated
- goats
- sheep
- pigs
- cows
- horses
- donkeys
- Bactrian camels
- arabian camels
- water buffalo
- llamas
- reindeer
- yaks
- mithans (ox)
- bali cattle
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Today we continued watching the video Guns, Germs, and Steel. It said that all great civilizations have three things in common. They all have advanced technology, large populations, and a well organized work force. A large population allows more people with different skills to do more than just gather food and hunt to survive. People have been been hunters and gatherers since 13,000 years ago. This is called pre-history. This was before people wrote stuff down and recored what they were doing. They used to move where the food was and would leave the area if there was no food around. The only place where people still are hunter/gatherers is deep in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea and in the Amazon. One important food source for New Guineans is the sago tree. They chop down the tree and scrape the pulp out of it and turn it into a dough like substance. One tree gives them about 70lbs of food and it takes days to process it. But it is low in nutrition and doesn't last for a long time.
We also learned about the earliest permanent settlement on Earth. This place is called Draa. It is an archeological site where they found ancient dwellings. They think maybe 40-50 people lived there. But how did they survive? They made a granary where they were able to store food year round so they didn't have to constantly go out and find food. This allowed more time for people to do other things, which led to progression of the settlement.r4
Today we continued watching the video Guns, Germs, and Steel. It said that all great civilizations have three things in common. They all have advanced technology, large populations, and a well organized work force. A large population allows more people with different skills to do more than just gather food and hunt to survive. People have been been hunters and gatherers since 13,000 years ago. This is called pre-history. This was before people wrote stuff down and recored what they were doing. They used to move where the food was and would leave the area if there was no food around. The only place where people still are hunter/gatherers is deep in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea and in the Amazon. One important food source for New Guineans is the sago tree. They chop down the tree and scrape the pulp out of it and turn it into a dough like substance. One tree gives them about 70lbs of food and it takes days to process it. But it is low in nutrition and doesn't last for a long time.
We also learned about the earliest permanent settlement on Earth. This place is called Draa. It is an archeological site where they found ancient dwellings. They think maybe 40-50 people lived there. But how did they survive? They made a granary where they were able to store food year round so they didn't have to constantly go out and find food. This allowed more time for people to do other things, which led to progression of the settlement.r4
Monday, January 6, 2020
back to School
Heyyyyy Blog! its been awhile....
Today we reviewed our exams and I did better than I thought I was going to do. We also started watching Guns, Germs, and Steel in class. The video was originally a book written by Jared Diamond in 1977. Jared was a professor of geography and physiology at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also a biologist and enjoys studying birds. He came to Papua New Guinea to watch birds. He learned several New Guinean languages and learned a lot about the people there. People have lived there for 40,000 years and they still don't have the advancements that most places have. He wondered why the people there are so much poorer. Yali's question was why do white men have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little? He meant cargo as material goods that Europeans brought to Papua New Guinea. Guns, Germs, and Steel argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences.
When Europeans first went to Papua New Guinea, they thought that power was directly determined by race.They believed that they were genetically superior. This is know as white supremacy. But Jared Diamond has seen all the Papua New Guineans can build and do just using their hands, so he knows there is no way that they can be inferior.
Today we reviewed our exams and I did better than I thought I was going to do. We also started watching Guns, Germs, and Steel in class. The video was originally a book written by Jared Diamond in 1977. Jared was a professor of geography and physiology at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also a biologist and enjoys studying birds. He came to Papua New Guinea to watch birds. He learned several New Guinean languages and learned a lot about the people there. People have lived there for 40,000 years and they still don't have the advancements that most places have. He wondered why the people there are so much poorer. Yali's question was why do white men have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little? He meant cargo as material goods that Europeans brought to Papua New Guinea. Guns, Germs, and Steel argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences.
When Europeans first went to Papua New Guinea, they thought that power was directly determined by race.They believed that they were genetically superior. This is know as white supremacy. But Jared Diamond has seen all the Papua New Guineans can build and do just using their hands, so he knows there is no way that they can be inferior.
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