Aphrodite Venus
Apollo Apollo
Ares Mars
Artemis Diana
Athena Minerva
Demeter Ceres
Hades Pluto [conventionally or for a trivia question, but really Pluto, a god of wealth, is the equivalent of a god of wealth called Dis]
Hephaistos Vulcan
Hera Juno
Hermes Mercury
Hestia Vesta
Kronos Saturn
Persephone Proserpina
Poseidon Neptune
Zeus Jupiter

HW#2

1. Aristarchus of Samos, reached two significant scientific conclusions. In one conclusion he estimated that the sun was at least 300 times larger than the earth. Although he greatly underestimated the sun's true size. In another conclusion, Aristarchus proposed that the earth & other planets revolve around the sun. Unfortunately for science, other astronomers refused to support Aristarchus's theories. Alexandria's last renowned astronomer, Ptolemy incorrectly placed the earth at the center of the solar system. Astronomers accepted this view for the the next 14 centuries.

2.The estimate that was closest to modern measurment is that Eratosthenes used geometry to compute the earth’s circumference at 24,662 miles. The Hellenists are so accurate because they used the right measurements

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2. Astronomy- Made the catapult
    Geometry- Archmiedes estimated the value of pi. He also explained the law of the lever & invented the compound pulley to lift heavy objects.
   Philosophy- Two major philosiphies were developed during the Hellenistic period, Stoicism & Epicuraenism.
    Art- Made sculpture flourished

3. The growth of Alexandre's empire spread Greek culture because, they made the  language be taught to those who wanted to learn.

hw #1

The video "The Great Presian War", which was told by a young man that looked like he was a college student. The video was about how the Persians went to war with the Greece which was named Spartas. They had many other land across from eachother they called it Polan which in Greece ment city states. There was a mountian they was built by the Greece bodies that dided in the Persian war. It was called the " Thesouars". It was 9 meters off the ground. About 200 soldiers that came from the battle form a marathon. The City states always agured. They wanted to be or feel independent that put them in a disadvantage. Then when the Athens and the Persians went to war the Athens beat the Persian. The Persian later faced Eygept and were forced to retreat. They said that they would come back to fight them again. A totle number of 31 city-states started to called themselves greeks.

HW#8

1. Babylon was the first civiliaztion  to have a written legal code.

2.Hummuribi's "Ordeal" is a painful test of gilt or innocence. They used this ordeal on Babylonians that are guilty of something to prove or to show that they are guilty. The person accused of the crime will have to lick a hot spoon. After they are done with that they will decide if they are guilty or not.

3.The Famous book that the Hammurabi's laws help create was the Bible

4. Hammurabi didn't create the laws he just wrote them down.

HW#7

Question 1;
Fertile Crescent: The regions curved shape and richness of the land.
Silt: When a flood leaves a thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: To dig ditches that carry river water to there fields which allowed a surplus of crops.
City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
Polytheism: To believe in many gods.
Empire: When several people, nations, and states are under control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi

Question 2;
1)There was no transportation & the solution was they created the sail and wheel
2)No way of communicating & the solution was making up writing
3)No tools for planting & the solution was that they created the plow

Question 3;
The advantage of living in a sumerian's city is that there is everything you need to survive and you only have one ruler. City's today have everything you need to survive, but there are too many rulers of the modern city today that things can get chaotic.

Video 1;
To keep record of many things like how many crops a person grew that year, how many animals they had, How much of everything was given to the gods.

Video 2;
1)The symbols in Cuneiform represent words .
2)The way they wrote was on plates of clay that made the clay in to plates like pancakes and wrote with a stylus, then after done writing they let the clay dry in the sun.
3)They drew on clay & walls.

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

Question 1;

Nomad- wander from place to place rather then 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.

Question 2;

- Neolethic people in many parts of the world independently developed agriculture
- Neolethic farmers first domesticated wild rice in the Chang Jiang River delta
- Shift from food gathering to food producing
- Change in weather

HW #5

What nation does the video focus on?
Ethiopia

What year was the discovery made?
1974

How many millions of years old is she?
3.2 million years old

What does it mean to be bipedal?
Bipedal is a species that has two feet or two legs like humans do

So from what continent, region and nation did human beings evolve
Pangea was the first continent were human beings started to evolve

Video #2

1.Hunters & Gatherers were constantly moving around. What were they following?
Hunter Gatherers would constantly be moving they where called nomads. They were following herds of wild animals.

2.What did they collect while they were traveling
While they traveled they collected berries, nuts & greens.

3.Do you think Lucy is a hunterer & gatherer
I think Lucy was more of a gatherer because hunting was mostly a man's job.

U.S. Envoy Vows to Help Pakistan Rebuild After Flooding

Title: U.S. Envoy Vows to help Pakistan Rebuild After Flooding
By: Waqar Gilliani
Published: Septemeber 16, 2010
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/
Link: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/floods/2010_pakistan_floods/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=floods%20in%20pakistan&st=cse
   The summer of 2010 produced Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The floooding began in the summer of July 22, 2010 in the province of Baluchistan. The flood got across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province in the northwest before flowing south into Punjab and Sindh. Approximately 1,300 to 1,600 died during the flood. The flooding has by now affected about one-fifth of the country, nearly 62,000 square miles or an area larger than England, according to the United Nations. Six weeks after the floods began, as rivers continued to devour villages and farmland in the southern province of Sindh, aid workers warned of a triple threat: loss of crops, loss of seed for the next planting season and loss of a daily income.
   This article shares a similarity having to do with what is currently going in class. Which is location, since people have to move to another location because the flood did damage.

HW #4

1. A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude.
2. A; Los Angeles- 34 degrees North latitude & 118 degrees West longitude
    B; Paris, France- 49 degrees North latitiude & 2 degress East longitude
    C; Capetown, South Africa- 34 degrees South latitude & 18 degrees East longitude
3. Describes its place in terms of its relation to other places & things around it.
    A;  The relative location of London, England is on the Tems River.
4.The relative location of  Queens, NY is in the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S.

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