Pre Snow Day

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Today in western civ, we did not have a test on Egypt because Mr. Schick didn't feel like it. We spent most of the class yelling which resulted in Mr. Schick getting angry and slamming him hands on the desk.  The rest of class was spent talking about the weather and the snow that is currently falling.  After that, we watched the rest of John Green's video.  Our rescheduled Egypt test will be whenever we get back to school. We have off tomorrow but we will have a "cyber day" thanks to Mr. Schick. I hope we have off Friday. Stay safe and build a snowman✳⛄

Broken Desks

Western Civ was very interesting today, Laura thinks that she has cancer and wants to kill Arri. Also, Mr. Schick broke the teacher’s desk today trying to help me with my book. Other than that, we did nothing productive today, which is ironic because we have our test tomorrow. We wasted so much time cleaning up the desk. But we did watch two videos today. The first one was about mummification, and this time we had sound! And the other one was about Egypt in general. It was narrated by John Green and he stared in it. The facts were good but his jokes weren’t funny. And Mr. Schick thinks that I’m only useful for death glares and complaining. Sadly, I can’t argue that. That’s all we really did in class today, and we have our test tomorrow so until then!

Test Wednesday

For today and tomorrow, we are going over the final notes for Egypt. Then we will have our test Wednesday and start our new unit of Ancient Greece Friday! The notes from today's class are;

• Geography
• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• the water is used for drinking, bathing, and transportation
• every July it floods (Grant)
• every October it leaves behind rich soil
• the delta is a broad, marshy, triangular shaped area of silt
• managing the river required a technological breakthrough
• Pyramids
• the Great Sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 BC
• a laying lion with a human head
• oldest monumental statue in the world
• Daily Life
• Slaves and Servants
• helped the wealthy households and child raising duties
• Farmers
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onions
• Artisans
• would create statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes of after life
• Merchants
• money/barter system was used
• might accept bags of grain for payment
• later a coinage came along
• Scribes
• kept record, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and other medical things
• wrote in hieroglyphs and hieratic
• Soldiers
• used wooden weapons with bronze tips and could ride chariots
• Government Officials
• upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - persists, physicians, engineers, etc.
• Pharaohs
• religious and political leaders
• holds the titles of "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple"
• ruler of upper and lower Egypt
• owned all land, made laws, and collected taxes
• defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut & Cleopatra were both women pharaohs
• Goddesses & Gods
• over 2000
• Sun God; Rah
• controlled the lives of the humans

BREAK FINALLY

Egypt

After the heckit week we had, we still learned something new in western civ. The notes from 2/7 class are on Egypt and are as follows;

• the Nile & the "Two Lands"
• upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile
• lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile Delta, which emptied into the Mediterranean Sea
• the Nile was the major provider of life for Egypt.
• 95% of the people lived a few miles from the river.
• 3100 BC - the two lands were united under a single king, or "pharaoh"
• Pharaoh was an all powerful, worshipped as a god, and intimately connected the other major Egyptian gods or goddesses.
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe called "maat"
• Pharaohs had multiple wife's, often sisters, to keep the social success in the family.
• Women could inherit money, land, and divorce their husbands.
• Gods, Humans, & Forever Life
• believed in an afterlife
• mummified bodies to preserve them for a post-death journey
• all souls would need to justify themselves and would either be sent to paradise or the jaws of a monster.
• The Writing of the Word of God
• hieroglyphs represented religious words
• hieratic script was a shorthand developed by scribes & priests
• usually written on papyrus and ink
• made from mashed Nile reeds
• Calendars & Sail Boats
• created a calendar with 365 days
• had doctors that created cures for common sickness'
• wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile
• Pyramids & Temples
• pyramids = massive stone tombs originally covered in marble
• the Temple of Ammon at Karnack is the largest religious building in the world
• stone scripters and interior painting dedicated to humans and gods in a series of poses

LO-3-Egypt

today we went over the notes again for a refresher and for our blog we are taking notes on pages 20-29.

• steppes - vast semiarid grasslands or plains.
• the Indo-European people's lifestyle differed from the southwestern Asian nomads.
• the Hittites were the most powerful and longest ruled kingdoms.
• pharaohs - the rulers of ancient Egypt.
• the Egypt's king was also known as a God.
• all of their God's were known as maat.
• women very rarely wield the full authority of a pharaoh.
• Egyptians were polytheistic
• writing arose in Egypt
• earliest form of writing were the hieroglyphs
• hieroglyphs - the earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words.
• knowledgeable in medicine.
• pyramid - a massive structure with sloping sides that met at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.

Pointless School Day

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Today in west civ, we did nothing. Grant wants to go to Chicago and study at Roosevelt University and they have rooms with a view. And their also on the water. Today Mr. Schick tried to have this “great idea” of spending the night at school and having two classes a day. That idea was the worst idea I’ve ever heard. I can barely function with the amount of sleep I have not and he is trying to keep me up until 2:40 at night. No thank you. We are getting out of school at 10 because of snow! It’s already sticking to the ground outside. Today was completely pointless, I woke up at 6:30 for nothing, I could be sleeping right now, but no. Thanks Harford County!

First Book Work Homework

Notes from the Book

• Prehistoric
• the period before history was recorded
• before civilization
• "if we reduce the time since the first humanlike species appeared (about 2.5 million years ago) to the period of a twenty-four-hour day, the five-thousand-year era of civilization takes up less than the last three minutes."
• the earliest and longest prehistoric era is the Paleolithic Age
• began with the earliest human types 
• By 8000 BC humans advanced in southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa.
• this starts the Neolithic Age
• during the prehistoric era, humans used the way of hunting and gathering to get their food
• Agricultural Revolution, also Neolithic Age, is the shift from hunting and gathering to farming
• Around 6000 BC the first agricultural villages formed in southwest Asia
• Families also started forming
• Polytheism – the belief in many gods or goddesses
• Because men did the farming, that left women at home to take care of the children
• The foundation of a civilized society included tradition, custom, and authority.
• The first village to become civilized was Sumer
• Dynasty – a line of rulers from the same family
• City-state – an independent state that consists of a city and its surroundings.