Questions to Ask Sarah!

1. Were you afraid of getting hurt in the riots?
2. Were you afraid of getting arrested in the riots?
3. Do you know anyone that got injured?
4. What do you think will happen now?
5. How did you first here about the riots and what was your first reaction?
6. How did your friends and family react?
7. How did you feel when you were in the riots?
8. How do you feel now that is over and you have won?
9. what is the most important thing you want everyone to know about the riots?
10. Have seeing the riots effected you at all emotionally?

Egypt Egypt Egypt!

Today we started talking about whats going on in Egypt.  Hosni Mubaric has been the president of Egypt for 30 years.  Eventually the people started to riot and made him resign from office.  There was 18 days of protest starting January 25, 2011.  Mubaric was re-elected  in 1987, 1993, and 1999, but the elections weren't very fair.  Eventually people got annoyed by him and started revolting.  A lot of people didn't want to though because they thought he was a good president. We watched a video on the revolt in Egypt also.  I learned that is all started with one group called the April, 6 group, that grew by the internet.  He used Facebook and Youtube to start the national protest.  It swelled to 80,000 people in one week.  It was supposed to be a peaceful revolt but it didn't really end that way.  The police came and turned it into a awful bloodbath.  It was bad.  Then, on January 25 when the next revolt started they finally got him out of office.  Now he is hiding somewhere in an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Mummy Rap

enjoy :)
Chorus:

A long time ago in the land of Ancient Egypt,

Important pharaohs ruled their dynasty.

But when they died, the process was kind of nasty.

The wanted to preserve their body you see,

For a safe trip to the afterlife, being wrapped as a mummy was the key.

The pharaoh has died OH MY!

Everyone was depressed and cried.

Step one the body must be dried.

Now they must remove the organs

This was a gruesome job you see,

But someone’s gotta do it,

Better you not me! (OHHHH)

They put the intestines in a jar with a falcon

I wonder how the pharaoh died, maybe he fell of his balcon…y.

A jar with the head of a dog his stomach went.

Oh! This is such a disgusting event.

His lungs went in a jar with the head of a baboon,

Gosh, these people were such buffoons.

Lastly they used a hook to get the brain out.

The worst process without doubt.

They thought the brain was useless

Little did they know they really used theirs less! (OHHH OH OH)

Chorus:

A long time ago in the land of Ancient Egypt,

Important pharaohs ruled their dynasty.

But when they died, the process was kind of nasty.

The wanted to preserve their body you see,

For a safe trip to the afterlife, being wrapped as a mummy was the key.

They dried out the body for another forty days.

This process was done in such a specific way.

The body was then stuffed with packaging,

Now the body was ready for bandaging.

They wrapped the mummy in twenty layers.

For their funeral, people hired surveyors.

The mummy was wrapped with gold and nice things.

The Pharaohs deserved it, they were great kings.

The jars were transported to the tomb by sleigh.

Oh, this day was so sad and gray.

People would grieve and throw dust in their hair,

Wow, let’s not get carried away here.

Religious ceremonies were held to insure the person to afterlife,

Their journey will be long, it will be difficult to survive.

Chorus:

A long time ago in the land of Ancient Egypt,

Important pharaohs ruled their dynasty.

But when they died, the process was kind of nasty.

The wanted to preserve their body you see,

For a safe trip to the afterlife, being wrapped as a mummy was the key.

A lot of mummies were destroyed by grave robbers.

They dug up the mummies and stole their stuff (how rude.)

Wow, they must be scary and tough.

You can see what the mummy looked like.

Mummification was so well done.

So that’s the story about mummies everyone.

Chorus:

A long time ago in the land of Ancient Egypt,

Important pharaohs ruled their dynasty.

But when they died, the process was kind of nasty.

The wanted to preserve their body you see,

For a safe trip to the afterlife, being wrapped as a mummy was the key.

Word.

Mummies!

• when a person dies, people try to preserve the person body by mummifying them.
• It was a very long and extensive process that took 70 days
• First they wash the body in the river.
• next they remove the deceased person inner organs.  They tried them out and wrapped them  they put the intestines in a jar with the head of a falcon.  they put the stomach in a jar with the head of a jackal(dog), they put the lungs in a jar with the head of a baboon, and they put the liver in a jar with the head of a human.
• They used a hook to take they brain out but the Egyptians found the brain to be unimportant so they just through it away.
• Next, they put the body on a table and let it try out for 40 days.
• The head and body were stuffed with packing.
• The mummy was then prepared for bandaging.
• wrapped without twenty layers.
• while they were wrapping they put gold and nice things in it.
• the mummy was ready for the funeral
• Pharaohs had the nicest funerals.
• The jars were transported to the tomb by a sleigh (with Santa!)
• people were hired to show their grief by crying and throwing dust in their hair.  
• religious ceremonies were held to bring the dead person to afterlife.
• the opening of the mouth ceremony is said to allow the person to see, hear, eat, and drink in the afterlife.
• Most of the mummies were destroyed by grave robbers.
• mummification is so well done you may be able to see what they look like.
• They believe mummification insured a safe passage to new life.  

Test Essay Transition between Hunter and Gatherers to Farmers

                 Before people started making civilizations, there were hunters and gatherers.  Hunters and gatherers roamed around and never bothered to build houses.  They were always to busy looking for food to eat and hunting animals. They constantly kept moving after they ate all the berries and animals they could find in one area.
                 People lived like this for a while until they discovered farming.  They realized that they didn't have to roam around all the time and they could just plant food at one spot.  The best kind of crops were rice, wheat, barley, and corn.  These crops were easy to store.  They also realized that when they store food they make a surplus.  Having a surplus of food meant that they had more time and not everyone had to be farming.  This gave people other jobs to invent more new things like weaving, making tools, making hide, etc.  This was called specialized labor.  
                 Along with growing crops, the ancient people also learned that they could domesticate animals.  A good domesticatable animal had to get along with humans, be over 100 pounds, eat only plants, and get along with other animals.  Animals gave people things like milk, hide, and meat.  If they were strong enough, they could also plow, which was great for farming.  Farming was really the key to keep moving forward in civilization.

Essay on New Guinea

New Guinea is the second largest island in the world.  Its capital is Port Morsby and it has a population of about 6 million people.  New Guinea has many religions, most are Christian.  The rest are 0.3 percent Bahai and 3.3 percent indigenous beliefs and other.  Some of the languages they speak are Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu.  They speak some 860 indigenous languages.  The unemployment rate is 1.8% and their population below the poverty line is 37%.  12% of the people live in urban areas.  The rest still live like they did a long time ago.  The amount of oil they produce is 35,090 barrels per day. They use 36,000 barrels per day. They sell 32,490 barrels per day and they buy 14,380 barrels per day. They produce 2.885 billion kWh of electricity and they use 2.683 billion kWh.  

First Quiz

• What kind of crops help people advance? wheat, barley, corn, rice, millet grains.  
• Who is Jared Diamond? Professor at UCLA, anthropologists, wrote a book called Guns, Germs, and Steal that was turned into a movie
• What is Sago? advantages? disadvantages? Not enough nutrients, not enough to feed the village, keeps you full.
• What is a granery?  Something that stores food to create a surplus
• What is the capital? Port Morsby
• Main religion? Christianity.
• Where is Papua, New Guinea? island right above Australia.  
• What and who are hunter gatherers? Never build homes, roam around and and hunt and gather food.  People were hunter gatherers before people discovered that they could farm.  Nomadic.  
• What is the significance of a surplus?  having a surplus means you have more than enough.  SPECIALIZED LABOR! since not everyone need to farm, other people are free to invent other things like weaving, making tools, making hide, etc.
• what role does geographical luck have in civilization.  If you live in a climate that is good for farming.  Good animals.  It allows the civilization to keep going forward.
• what animals helped civilization grow the most? Horses, sheep, goats.  
• Domesticated plant? easy to plant, easy to store, high in protein, 
• domesticated animals? gets along with people, can be tamed, over a hundred pounds, meat eaters, social animals, milk, offspring.
• What is cargo? material that you accumulate over a period of time.
• 85% of jobs in Papua, New Guinea is farmers.
• significance of latitude? the same types of crops are grown around the same latitude.  Spread around.
• what is draa'?  first village in human history.  The made the granery.

Facts About New Guinea

• Papua, New Guinea is the second largest island in the world.
• it's population is an estimated amount of about 6 million people.
• Urbanization is 12%
• The Unemployment rate is 1.8%
• Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3
• Literacy rate is 57.3%
• Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official languages
• 26.95 births/1,000 population
• The government is a constitutional parliamentary democracy and a commonwealth realm.
• Capital is Port Moresby
• Population below the poverty line is 37%
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Finally Finished Guns, Germs, and Steal.

Geographical luck is really what you have been delt.  You can be lucky and have domesticatible animals and good crops like the Middle East or you could be like Papua, New Guinea who has nothing.  No one is smarter than one another, it's just that some people had the chance to move forward, while others did not.  Since people had to keep moving and hunt anymore, people started to make homes.  People also learned how to make plaster from limestone.  This was one of the biggest steps in technology.  This also led to the discovery of how to make medal.  New Guinea never advanced with medal because they were always to busy trying to feed themselves.  Areas with the same latitude, have the same climate, for example Europe and Asia.  Since they have the same climate, they could grow the same crops and this is why they both advanced at around the same time.  When Europe advanced enough to discover the Americas, they brought cattle and other farming animals.  This is why America now has farming animals.  New Guineans are still trying to catch up with the modern world, but unfortunately for them, there is still a big gap.  Some parts of New Guinea are making progress but it still isn't enough.  Some people think Jared Diamonds theory is to simple and easy, but I agree with it.  The fertile crescent.

Guns, Germs, and Steal...Again, again

When you store food and have extra, it's called a surplus.  Animals that are domesticated have a lot of requirements.  They need to got along with other animals and humans.  There are 48 animals that can be domesticated but only 14 are.  Goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, reinder, yacks, mithans, watter buffalo, llamas, donkeys, 2 kinds of camals, and valley cattle.  New Guinea does not have animals like this.  Once again they have very bad geographical luck.  This is another reason why New Guineans are still have nots.

Guns, Germs, and Steal... again

Jared Diamond is trying to answer the question why New Guinea is so undeveloped even though they started farming around the same time as China, the Middle East and Central America.  He believes its because they do not have very geographical luck.  The climate they live in is not fit for growing crops.  He has a feeling though that this cannot be the only reason the world is divided into haves and have nots.  There is something else causing  it too.  A new reason he discovered is animal herding.  People start domesticating animals and using them for food, milk, and fur.  Animals were starting to become a big part of the worlds civilization.  Also, people starting using horses and oxes to plow for them to help their crops grow.  There are still no farm animals (besides pigs) in new Guinea to help them with things like that.  the only muscle power they have human muscle.  The best animal to domesticate is a large plant eating animal.  There are 48 animals that can be domesticated.  Only 14 have been used.  Some domesticated animals are goats sheep pigs, cows horses donkeys, camals, water buffalo, mithan.