Honors Human Geo

I had my quiz today and I got a pretty good grade on it so I'm fine with it. Not sure what I got wrong though so I'll have to see when I get the quiz back. But other than that we just took notes from textbook pages and power points that I really don't feel like putting on here.

I was not in class today because I am sick. I am going to try and make up the quiz either in my off at nine tomorrow or I can stay after school to get it done.

We have a quiz tomorrow about Mesopotamia and I think I'm going to do pretty well on it. I have to take it first mod during my off cause I'm leaving class early cause I have an away basketball game like two hours away so I get to leave at 1. This means that I leave in the middle of English and completely miss western civ.

Some of the questions on the quiz: silt where did Mesopotamians learn Hammurabi's laws  polytheism cultural diffusion  irrigation new stone age term old stone age term

a mess of Mesopotamia civilization in Mesopotamia -nomads drove herds into areas (south of Sumer in Arabia) -Sumer was conquered by the Akkadians in 2350 BC (their gods took the others places and had to be worshiped) - King Hammurabi's laws - Hammurabi's code - laws include "eye for an eye" retaliation and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for crimes            

5. His code covers everything that affected the community including: family relations                                                                                                                 business conduct                                                                                                                 crime

1. fertile crescent - curved shape and rich land, Greek "land between the rivers"     Mesopotamia - it is the first river valley civilization     city-state - describes each city and the surrounding land they controlled     dynasty - series of rulers from a single family      cultural diffusion - the process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another     polytheism - the belief of more than one god which was what the Sumerians were     empire - it brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler     Hammurabi - he helped the Babylonian Empire reach its peak 3. unpredictable flooding combined with a period of little or no rain (sometimes almost becoming a desert) with no natural barriers for protection, a Sumerian village was nearly defenseless the natural resources of Sumer were limited. Building material and other necessary items were scarce 

So today in class we watched teens compete in jeopardy. I have never watched jeopardy in my fine and I didn't know that it was on Netflix. It is a bit boring in my opinion but we're all into different thing so I don't really care. I did want to watch a movie instead though. Like we could've watched an older movie like back to the future or the breakfast club. We could've also watched a Disney movie like lilo and stitch or finding nemo. But it's okay cause it was a chill class.

That was probably the best test I've ever taken in this class. I feel really good about this test for once. Usually I say I feel good about a test but I end up getting a bad grade in the end, but I feel like today's test is different. Like I actually feel good about it and I'm confident in my work. I wasn't so confident on like one or two questions but that's the least amount if questions I've ever worried about. There was one that asked if a place had the same blank then they will most likely have the same climate and I knew it was either latitude or longitude but I forgot which is which and really tried my best to figure it out. I knew the lines had to be horizontal instead of vertical but I just didn't remember which was which. But I think I'll be fine and will definitely get a good grade.

fundamental weakness- ecology is too high, climate is too dry wheat and cows were not native to the Americas  100 million cows are in the Americas now

I emailed you since I did videos to show different things. Thank you for recommending going, it was really cool and I'll probably go again next year too!

meat supply of goats and sheep-first to be domesticated animal domestication benefits: meat, milk, hair/skin for clothes, poop for fertilizer the plow was invented  animals were used as machines for farm work large plant eating animals were ideal for domesticating elephants can't be domesticated because of how large they are-they need a lot of food, need to be kept alive for 14 years till reproduction 14 domesticated animals: goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, Bali cattle none are from New Guinea Africa- domesticated llamas asia, north africa, middle east- domesticated the other 13 middle east (fertile crescent) because of the crops and animals it is one of the places civilization started

where did the first plant domestication and farming start? : china - rice Americas - corn, squash, beans Africa - sorghum, millet, yams middle east - wheat, barley oldest system of farming-10,000 years  new Guineans suffer from protein deficiency sago, bananas they would eat large spiders for protein more productive crops=more productive people  GEOGRAPHIC LUCK- determines how successful an area is

3 things all great civilizations have in common: advanced technology, large populations, a well organized work force pre-history - before things were written down the middle east was thriving 13,000 years ago-hunters/gatherers are there any hunters/gatherers today? yes where are they today?  Papua, New Guinea  wild sago - pulp at the center of a tree which can be cooked (doesn't have many proteins or nutrients and has very high levels of natural sugars) barley and wheat are more nutritious than sago the middle east went through a drought that lasted more than a 1,000 years  animal herds died off Draa - a small village that is supposedly the oldest village in the world- 40-50 people living together- 11,500 years ago Draa had the first granary - the storing of grain plant domestication=farming

control of plants and livestock to get out of the starting phase is to have a surplus of food Jared Diamond Papua, New Guinea professor at UCLA he started out as a biologist he really likes to study birds Why does a white man have so much cargo and New Guineans don't? colonials believed power was determined by race-they saw themselves as genetically superior