H.W#7

1. Identify:
Fertile Crescent: The region's curved shape and the richness of its land.
Silt: A thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: Ditches that carried river water to their fields.
City State: When each city or surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A serious of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: Process of a new idea or product spreading from one culture to another.
Polytheism: The belief in many gods.
Empire: Brings together several people nation or previously independent  states under the control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: ?

2. Challenges/solutions
Challenge - Couldn't communicate.
Solution - Developed the first system of writing.

Challenge - They had no transportation.
Solution - They invented the wheel and the sail.

Challenge - They had no tools for planting.
Solution -  They  invented the plow.

3. Their advantage was that they only had one ruler.

1st Video.
1. Sumerians developed written language because they needed to keep record of what was going on.

2nd Video.
 1. Cuneiform is wedge shape.
 2. They wrote with a tool called a stylus and wrote on clay tablets. They just let it dry on the sun so it can last.
 3. They drew on the clay and also on the walls.

H.W#7

1. Identify:
Fertile Crescent: The region's curved shape and the richness of its land.
Silt: A thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: Ditches that carried river water to their fields.
City State: When each city state and surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A serious of rulers from s single family.
Cultural Diffusion: Process of a new idea or product spreadung from one culture to another.
Polytheism: The belief in many gods.
Empire: Brings together several people, nations or previously independent states under the control of one      ruler.
Hammurabi: ?

2. Challenge 1.

Current Events

Iraq War Medicine -National Geographic channel
Neil Shea
December 2006
Nationalgeographicchannel.com
Click home and then click the magazine
The topic is Wars in Iraq
 In the article it was talking about Iraq war medice. It said that soldiers were sitting down waiting to see what will happpen next. In the radio it said that the insurgents have attacked a US army patrol and that a soldier was badly wounded. It talks about things that happened during the war in Iraq.
The reason I chose this news story was because it is realted to somethinmg we are doin in class.
The news story occured in the same geographic location , and its also something similar to what we are learning in class.

H.W#6

Map Question 1.
1. On which continent were most of the earliest agriculture sites located?
answer: Europe

Map question 2.

2. What geographic feature favored the development of agriculture areas before 5000 b.c.?

answer:

1. Identify:

Nomad- Are people who wonder from place to place.

Hunter Gatherer- Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

Neolithic revolution- or the agriculture revolution. The far reachin changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming.

Slah and burn farming- In which they cut trees or grasses and burned them to clear a field.

Domestication- The taming of animals.

2.

•  Change in climate
• Rich supply
• Steady source of food

H.W #5

1st. video
1. What nation does the video focus on?
It focuses on Ethopia.

2. What year was the discovery made?
The discovery was made in 1974.

3. How many millions of years is she?
3.2 millions years old.

4. What does it mean to be bipedal?
Bipedal means something that has two legs.

5. So from what continent, region & nation did human beings evolve?
It was evolve in Africa.

2nd video

1. Hunters and gatheres were constantly moving around. What were they folloeing?
They were following the animal herds.

2. What did they also collect as they were traveling?/
As they travelled they collected wild berries, nuts and greens to eat.

3. Do you think Lucy was a hunter & gatherer?
 I think Lucy was a gatherer because men did all the hunting.

HW#4

Absolute & relative location

1. Define absolute location
Absolute location is expressed in terms of the latitude and longitude coordinates of some specific place.

2. What is the absolute location of :

 a) Los Angeles: 34 degrees North latitude and 118 degrees West longitude.
 b) Paris France: 49 degrees  north latitude and 2 degrees east longitude.
 c) Capetown, south Africa: 34 degrees south longitude and 18 degrees east longitude.

3. Define relative location.
Describes a place in terms of its relation to other places and things around it.

 a) What is the relative location of London, England?
The relative location of London, England is tens river.

4.  What is the realitve location of Queens N.Y?
The relative location of Queens N.Y is Manhattan.

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I'm Akemi M. from period 6