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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