Tuesday, September 29, 2009

7.1 Section review and identify.

!. Black and Aegean Sea.
Ionian Sea.
Gulf of Corinth.

@. Aegeans, Minoans, and Mycenaens.
Between 2000 and 1100 B.C.
Greece.

#. The Minoans.
King Minos at Knossos.

%. The Dorians.
The Hellenes.

^. Homer.
An adventurer and his adventures and what not.

&. Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Hera.
They were the product of poetical genius//figments of imagination.

*. City.
Surrounded a hilltop fortress. Provided refuge from the enemy.

(. Athens, Eretria, and Sparta.

!). 490-479 B.C.

!!. The Greeks were able to hold off the Persians for three days before a Greek traitor showed Persian forces a way over the mountains. After learning about this, Leonidas, the spartan leader, ordered his troops to withdraw.

!@. It placed an absolute limit on the westward expansion of the Persian Empire and ensured that Freek culture would continue to thrive in the west.



Identify:

Hellespont-a city in greece
Attica-one of the prominent regions of ancient greece
Pelopnnesus- one of the prominent regions of ancient greece
Trojan War- c.1200 bc when myceneans destroyed the city of Troy
Odessyus-the brave greek warior in Homers Illiad and Oddessy
Mt. Olympus-were the god Zuesand other olympian gods supposedly lived
heroes-glorified human beings who possesed unusual abilities and tremendous bravery
Achilles- the invincible greek warrior in the Illiad
barbarian-greeks referred to people who werent greek as this...they thought of them as inferior
olympic games-held every 4th year @ olympia in honor of Zues
Olympiad-the years in between olympic games
Darius I-the new persian king
Xerxes I-Darius I son was determined to conquer greece
Leonidas-spartan leader of the 300
Themistocles-a brilliant athenian who tricked Xerxes into fighting a navail battle in a narrow strait
Plataea-479bc where greece was defeated






























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Monday, September 28, 2009

Marrriaaahhh.

Keeps finishing thw blog assignments.
Thankssss guh.
:}
-Morgan.
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Adventures in Ancient Greeccceeee.

Timeline;;
Six correct.

Athens;;
! Between the ages of eighteen and twenty, boys spent two years training to become a Spartan.

@ One hill in Athens is Acropollis. Many temples were built on it.

# The Parthenon is the largest builing on Acropollis.

$ The Pythnx was the voting hill where Greece born citizens raised their hands to vote.

% Girls stayed at home where their mom taught them how to take care of a home and family.

^ People lived in homes under the hill of Acropollis.

& Boys went to school at the age of seven to learn to read, write, and sing.

* The olive tree was supposedly given by Athena, the goddess who protected the city.




Sparta;;
! Calling a Spartan a "Trembeler" was horrible! It meant that they were afraid to fight.

@ At the age of seven, Spartan boys were sent to military camp.

# After battle, the Spartans would hang their weapons in trees to thank the gods for victory.

$ At the age of twenty, you had to join the army.

% Spartan girls didn't go to school or join the army. They had to stay fit to have healthy babies though.

^ babies were taken from there mothers to be checked....weak babies were left to die because spartan babies had to be fit

& spartan boys were kept hungry..and often had to steal to eat...this taught them to be sneaky...a useful skill in battle

* sparta was surrounded by mountains...protection from invaders





Mt. Olympus;;

! hera was the wife of Zues...goddes of marriage and women

@ Ares was the god of war

# Zues god of weather and the ruler of the gods

$ demeter goddes of grain and fertility

% artemis goddes of moon, hunting and children

^ hephaistos god of blacksmiths and fire

! god of travel and theives

@ apollo god of the sun, music, and truth

# aphrodite goddess of love and beauty

$ dionysius god of wine and theatre

% posiden god of the sea and earthquakes

& Athena goddes of war, wisdom and arts
















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Sunday, September 27, 2009

essay questions:
When Africa was ruled by Europeans there were only 2 free nations in Africa....this was a time of great progress.

Africa's most pressing needs now are the gospel, food ,shelter, education, and a stable civil government.

key terms:

Africa's Landscape
deserts-over 2/5 of africa is deserts...sahara is in n. africa......kalihari is in s. africa
savanna-land characterized by wet and dry seasons coverd by grasses and shrubs
mountains-africa's longest mountain range is the atlas mountain range.....africa's tallest mountain is mt. kilimanjaro
nile river-longest river
lake victoria-africa's largest lake
great rift valley- largest rift in the world

Africa's History
africa's history began shortly after the flood...
ebed melech-helped jerimiah in prison
unnamed ethiopian eunuch-most famous cushite in history....phillip led him to Christ....1st african on record to become a Christian
edesius and frumentius- taken to ethiopia as slaves after they were shipwrecked...frumentius was the 1st bishop of ethiopian christian church....they are credited with bringing christianity to africa

Early Christianity in Africa
Alexandria,Egypt; Cyrene, Libya; Carthage, Tunisia......influental cities in christianity
Simon of Cyrene-helped carry Jesus' cross
Clement of alexandria- wrote the oldest surviving christian hymn which is sheperd of tender youth

African Trade
sea trade-africans traded iron, ivory and gold....for porcelain, precious stones, and silk with asians
inland trade- btwn 300 and 1200 ad Ghana traded gold, ivory, and slaves for salt copper and dried fruit from arabs
mali empire-lasted from 1200- 1500 ad modern day Guinea, Mali, and Senegal
Timbuktu- important trading center for mali empire famous center for learning and culture
songhai empire- dominated west africa in 1500's monopolized trade across the sahara

Exploration and Missions
africa was often referred to as the white man's grave because of the various conditions and diseases.....intense heat,malaria,sleeping sickness, and yellow fever.
Mungo Park-explored africa from 1805-1806 traced most of the Niger river.
Hugh Clapperton-explored africa from 1822-1824...1st european to cross the sahara desert
Alexander Liang- explored africa fro 1825-1826 1st european to reach Timbuktu
Robert Moffat- one of the 1st missionaries to africa....said "I can see the the smoke of 1000 villages where the name of Christ has never been heard"
David Livingstone- wen to Moffat's call for more missionaries.....1st European to see Victoria Falls

Africa in Modern Times
European rule-by ww1 only 2 countries were free....however this was a time of great progress
Progress...... in law and order, schools were founded, roads and railroads, hospitals, and new cities.
1950's -1960's-a move toward independance from european rule, began with Ghana 1957
General Idid Amin- seized power in Uganda ruled until 1979, devout muslin, killed and tortured as many as 300,00 people.



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Thursday, September 24, 2009

africa map game

mariah: 21 in 120 sec...
morgan:21 in 120 sec...




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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

African facts and photos.

A. Indian Ocean, Mountains, Plateus, Coastal Plane.

B. East Africa and Nairobi.

C. Great Rift Valley.

D. Elephants, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, hippos, rhinos, and MOREEE!
Over fifty reserves.

E. Indian Ocean and Victoria Lake.
It has created a diverse group of people.

F. It may have been the original birthplace of all humans.

G. It was a big part of kenya's history.
Many Kenyans were kidnapped and taken as slaves by Arab. By the time slavery was out lawed, Kenyans were already spread out in many countries throughout the world.

H. Sixty languages and forty ethnic groups.

I. School is free but most children are too busy to go to school. They help their parents by working, tending caddle, and cooking.

J. Music and storytelling.

K. It is independant so it is a republic.

L. Republic of Kenya.
Republic.
Swahili and English.

M. Kenya shilling.
Aberdare Range, Mau Escarpment.
Athi/Galani, Tana.








Photos:
One: some arthropologists found a fossil.....

Two: some tribal ladies with they makeup and jewelry on....

Three: people takin pictures of a lion....

Four: the city of.....iono....

Five: a lke....hmm im guessing lake VICTORIA??...

Six: Kenyan flag..........








Photo 1- arcgeologist examin fossils
Photo 2- Massai women reveal personal information with their jewelery
Photo 3 - a tourist in Kenya watches two lions
Photo 4 - founded in 1899, Nairobi is on of Africa's largest cities
Photo 5 - Kenya's Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake
Photo 6 - Kenyan Flag













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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Games of the African persuasion.

Map Game:
Morgan;;
Twenty-one in one hundred nineteen seconds.

Mariah;;
Twenty-five in one hundred nineteen seconds.



Mini game Demo:
I had to kick the luggage into the belt thingy. It was hard. Especially the second round. But the cute little zebra and the lion are adorbale. I love the movie so yay!

Glu Mobile Game:
The screen thingy looked like a cell phone so that was cool. I was killed by a prairie dog or something. But the lion had to run and jump and what not. Anndddd he had to collect steaks because I don't know why. That wasn't very vegetarian friendly, but it was a pretty fun game.

Africa Clue Game:
That game was pretty hard. I didn't know any of them...at all! So they gave me these clues and stuff...that didn't help much. I really had no idea about any of them.

















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Monday, September 21, 2009

African Geography game.

Morgan;;
390.



Mariah;;
390.






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6.1 section review and identify.

!. 2/5.
Sahara and Kalaharia.
North west and South west.
Sahara.

@. Atlas.
Kilimanjaro.

#. Victoria and the Nile.

$. The Great Rift Valley.

Identify:
The Dark Continent: what Africa was called because it was an unexplored mystery.
Savanna: vast tracks of land characterized by wet ad dry seasons.
Lake Tanganyika: world's longest and second deepest lake.













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Thursday, September 17, 2009

EXTRA TESST INFO HERE YO!!

africa is the 2nd largest country...............lower egypt is above upper egypt.....herodotus lived 485-425bc.......@ the mouth of the nile (delta) there is fertile rich alluvial soil......2 granite colossi and 1 alabaster sphinx survive from Memphis.....egyptian people spent most of their life prepairing for their death.......great pyramid of cheops is 480 feet high takes up 13 acres and took 2.3 million stone blocks.....Howard carter dicovered king tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 known as one of the greatest archeological finds.......huge pyramids were used as caskets......THATS ITTT!!!






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OPEN BLOG TEST ANSWERS HERE!!!

Sahara Desert: world's largest desert
Nile: worlds Longest river
Egypt: in the northeast corner pf Africa called "the seedbed of civilization"
Mizraim: egypt's ancient name, also name of Ham's son...bible calls egypt the land of ham
Nomes: small states in egypt
Pharoahs: strong rulers who divided the nomes into lower and upper egypt
Menes: the very 1st pharoah of a united egypt "Kingdom of the 2 lands"
"the gift of the nile": heordotus called egypt this
Heiroglyphics: egyptian form o writing contains over 700 charachters
Book of the dead: most important egyptian work....thought to guide souls thru the after life
Memphis: 12 miles south of Cairo...known as Noph in the bible.....
Thebes: 450 miles south of Cairo...nothing remains but a vast necropolis (city of the dead)
Pyramid:best symbolizes egypts government...and these were tombs too.
Monarchy/theocracy: egypt's government dominated by the god-king pharoah
Humanism:worshiped me
Polytheism: worshiped many gods
natralism: worshiped nature





Egyptian tombs: early phraoah built large stone pyramids to serve as their tomb or house of eternity.....to store their mortal remains
Great pyramid of cheops: one of the wonders of the ancient world....took 100,000 workers 20 years to build this thang
King tut: teenage phraoah...died @ 18....tomb was filled with exquisite treasutre
mumification: the process of preserving dead bodies
30Dynasties: ancient egypt was divided into these
Old kingdom: dynasties 3-6.....important monarchs...cheops,khafre,and menkaure
Pyramids @ Giza: built by cheops, khafre, and menkaure
Great sphinx: built in the likeness of Khafre and has head of man and body of a lion
middle kingdom: 11th dynasty........king Mentuhotep I.....established capital at thebes
Hyksos: asiatic warriors who conquered the middle kingdom...they had chariots and horses
Ahmose I: king of the new kingdom....drove hyksos out of egypt.
New kingdom: 18-20 dynasty
Hatshepshut: only female pharoah...may have been moses mom
Amenhotep I: thutmose III son.....he may have bee n pharoah during the exodus
Later new kindom: Rameses II
Rameses II: most outstanding egyptian monarch
Alexander the great:the young macedonian king who took after his father.....crossed the Hellespont 334.....wanted to create a world empire for himself

Alexandria: 16 greekl cities that alexander named for himself
Lighthouse of Alexadria: one of the wonders of the ancient world 440 feet high marble tower...with a fire burning pitch and a giant reflective mirror the lighthouse could cast its light 35 miles across the sea!!!



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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

mummy game summary.

mariah says: this game was so so so so so so so so so....so so fun. and i really really really really really really enjoyed that thang!! i actually would love to play it everyday for the rest of mah life!! and then im gonna make my grandchildren play it everyday of their life!! thank you for allowing us to play such an intriguing game


Morgan;;
The game was very interesting and informative. I was able to learn about the mummie process and the jars and what not. sooooo yay egyptian dead people!



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Egytian stufffff.

A. Without the Nile, AEgypt would just be a desert. Only an inch of rain falls there per year.

B. Upper and Lower Egypt.

C. Southern conatains low mountains and deserts.
Northern has wide valleys near the Nile.

D. Cheetahs, hyenas, cobras, and crocodiles.
Wetlands and islands.

E. hippos, leopards, elephants.

F. 3000 B.C.
Eight thousand years ago.

G. 3100 B.C.

H. 31 B.C.
A.D. 640

I. British. Suez Canal. 1952.

J. Muslim.

K. There isn't enough room.

L. Because they can help on farms.

M. Republic.

N. Visitors to the Great Sphinx.

O. Arab Republic of Egypt.

P. Cairo.

Q. 7888007.
Arabic.

R. Egyptian pound.


Photos:
One;;
a boat in water.
[[large ships steam through the Suez Canal in Egypt]]

Two;;
An old man on a bike in the middle of a crowded street.
[[Shoppers walk through an open air market in Luxor, Egypt]]

Three;;
A camel with weird looking things on it by pyramids.
[[A camel stands near the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt]]

Four;;
A city with lots of buildings.
[[Crowded Cario, Egypt, has more than 18 million people.]]

Five;;
People getting water in big vases.
[[Two women fill their jugs with water at the Nile River.]]

Six;;
The flag.
[[Egyptian flag.]]

-->I wasn't that close.






A. Armored tanks.
Insects and small fish.

B. Bellows and snatches.

C. On the shore of the river, in some sand.

D. About twenty to eighty.
She does watch them.

E. They send out high pitched sounds.

F. The water.

G. By basking in the sun.

H. Crocidylus niloticus.
twenty feet.

I. Eighty years.
Webbed feet.

J. The nile.

K. Aligators have a round face and crocodiles have a triangular.

L. To propel through the water.

M. Schools of fish.

N. Baboons, hyenas, wildebeast, and impala.

O. They are highly developed.

P. They help grind the food.






















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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mummiess.

A. Thirty centuries.
He was a living god.
You would have to say the name of the dead person and preserve their body.

B.Your dead body is collected and cleaned, then taken to the ‘place of embalming’, called the wabet.
Slicers.
linen- used as bandages.
your body- it is being mummified.
the priest- he acts as the chief embalmer.
natron salt- used to dry out the body.
canopic jars- used to store organs.
tools- used to remove the organs.
oils- smooth skin and make it sweet smelling.

C.Your liver, lungs, stomach and intestines.
Stored them in canpoic jars.

D. The shriveled body is stuffed with various objects to make it look plump.
Mud, onions, chaff, rags, and sawdust.

E. They embalmed it.
Linen, resin, and shrouds.
Coffins.

F. Pictures of the gods and the correct spells painted on them, plenty of hieroglyphs.
A kitty.
Statues and other stuff.

G. There were mourners and priests. Your coffin was on a boat.
The people wore blue clothes and mourned. The priest burn incense and recite poems and what not.

H. They raided the tombs for riches and goods. They broke into the tombs.
they wanted linen because it took so long to make. Glass because is was valuable. Gold jewelry because it was valuable.







Morgan;;
This game was very interesting. I didn't know like anything at all. The thing about the organs was really gross and weird. I can't believe it took seventy days to do this process!

Mariah;;
This was a very educational game. I didn't know much about the brains that was snottin out the mummies noses and thats kinda nasty...but egyptians were scary cuz they "priest" wore the head of anubis.











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Monday, September 14, 2009

Chapter 5.3 review and identify.

1. into thirty dynasties.

2. Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure.

3. King Mentuhotep I.
Joseph became the prime minister of Egypt.

4. Ahmose.
They were like the Hyksos.

5. Hatshepsut.

6. Because Egypt restablished it's empire in Asia during this period.
Thutmose III.
His successor may have been pharoah during the Hebrew exodus.

7. Basically, he decided to advance Egypt at any cost. He made Egypt join with Syria. He attempted to destory Israel...and the rest is history.

8. Anwar el-Sadat.
negotiated with Israel's prime minister.


Identify:
-Giza: where the three largest pyramids are.

-Great Sphinx: head of a man, body of a lion, bears the likeness of Khafre.

-Twelfth Dynasty: the kings established their capital at Thebes.

-Hyskos: Asiatic warriors.

-Ramses II: the most outstanding monarch.

-Alexandria: the most important city in Alexander's empire.

-Septuagint: the old testament was translated to Greek.

-Ptolemy: Alexander's general who gained control of Egypt.

-Cairo: became the center of Egyptian life and the center of the Arab world.

-Suez Canal: completed by French engineers and British officials.

-Hosni Mubarak: took over after Sadat.



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Walk the plankk.

Morgan;;
Egypt: 50%
China: 30%

Mariah;;
Egypt: 80%
China: 70%







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Friday, September 11, 2009

Chapter 5 Section Review and identify

1. Africa....Sahara....Nile....
2. meditteranean sea to the north, Sahara to the west, red sea to the east
3. Mizraim....
4. because it is basically the root of all african cultures.
5.Upper and lower egypt....lower egypt was toward the delta of the nile and upper egypt was facing toward the bottom of africa. Menes united these states.
6. Sahara desert
7. egypt was the greatest and most magnificent power of the ancient world.
8. without the floodwaters and the fertile soil deposited by the nile each year, egypt would be a wasteland.
9.champoilion deciphered heiroglyphics....A stone was found that consisted of one message carved into thress different languages, heiroglyphics, demotic, and greek.
10. Memphis and Thebes
11.the pyramid...because the slaves were at the bottom, nobility and leaders were in the middle and the pharoah was on top, with supreme rule over all.
12. Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife. they even burried wives and slaves with nobility because they thought that they woyld be helpful in the next life...


identify:
Isthmus of Suez: a strip of land that once connected africa to asia
Copts:ancient egyptian people
nomes: small states in egypt
Nile Delta: where the nile dumps into the meditteranean sea
heiroglyphics: egyptian form of writing
Book of the dead: a book of spells and prayers burried with people
necropolis:dead cityy




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mariah: 10 outta 12
morgan was absent!





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Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Nile game thing.

Only scribes could read and write heiroglyphics. Rich boys went to school while rich girls learned to sing and what not. I guess the poor people got screwed over and couldn't do anything. Anddddd, when he was at home, he did work with his parents. We both got a perfect score. Yay us!






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Egyptianss gaaming.

Morgan;; twenty- one.
Mariah;; twenty-two.








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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Eygyyyptiiaana..

a. What is a "stela"?
a stella is a decorated stone in a tomb that tells who is buried there.
b. What type of writing did Ancient Egyptians use?
ancient egyptians used a type of writing called heiroglyphs
c. Once you decipher the hieroglyphs, what does it spell?
preist
d. Once you descend into the tomb, what do you find?
we found canopic jars which held the persons guts, a coffin, and statues of Anubis
e. What do the statues represent?
the god anubis
f. Describe the gods of the Ancient Egyptians.
the ancient egyptian gods had human bodies and animal heads
g. What are the "canopic" jars? What's in them?
the jars are what holds the person in the coffin's lungs, liver, stomach and intestines
h. What is the coffin made of?
made out of wood coverd in painted heiroglyphs
i. Each person in your group should write a 1 paragraph summary about this game and post it to your blog
i actually really enjoyed this game. it was very interactive. i think i liked it so much because i really like egypt and stuff. i like the movie the mummy and the mummy returns and the 3rd mummy movie. but i forgot the name of that one. sooo i liked this game cuz its really funn and stuff!! -mariah gee



The game was aiighht. Mariah looked like she had fun with it so yay! I don't really like history so yeah...yay!
-Morgan.



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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Study Guide and Map Game.

From 3.1-
1.What was the first empire to rule after Sumer?
Babylon.

2.Who was Hammurabi?
The first king of Babylon.

3.What is the Babylonian Genesis/Enuma Elish?
The Genesis like ours.

4.Who were the Hittites? Why are they important?
They were the socond empire to take over. They used lots of iron.



From 4.1 -
1.What is the highest place in Asia? Lowest?
Mt. Everest. Dead Sea.

2.Name the 3 main rivers in Asia.
Tigris-Euphrates, Indus River and Huang Ho.

3.Why is India called a “subcontinent”?
It's so distincly off from Asia.

4.Name the 3 major land regions in India.
The Decan Plateau, the Himalyan Mts, and the Northern Plains.



From 4.5 -
1.What are the names of the 4 islands that make up the nation of Japan?
Hokkiado, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.

2.What’s Japan’s famous mountain called?
Mt. Fuji.

3.Who were the earliest inhabitants of Japan?
Ainu.

4.What is Shinto?
The religion of the worship of nature.






Map Game:

the map game was easy i got a perfect SCORE!!
-Mariah

I didn't do that well; I got half of the rightt.
[[Morgan.]]

















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Friday, September 4, 2009

The nasty Sumo people

a. What is SUMO?
Two fat people who wear mawashi's and look at eachother and
try to push people and stuff.

b. How do wrestlers win at SUMO?
One of the wrestlers is forced out of the ring and then
the referee calls the winner.


c. When did SUMO start?
In 710.


d. What's a day in the life of a SUMO wrestler like?

When they are young, they live in a stable. A stable is conducted by an old wrestler who was good at in his prime. They wake up early and train hard to move up to the next rank. Their day starts at about five in the morning. At eight, they go eat. They eat again and eleven. And then again at six. And once more at ten thirty.




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Thursday, September 3, 2009

World EEEEEEEEEEExploration & Photo Analysis Chaallenge.

World Exploration:


Morgan;;
It took a long time to load. The little woman gave me the creepies. I didn't get a score. I didn't do that great. I only got like two or three on the first try. It took my three or four or five times to get the other answers. I only got one true or false question right. Oh well.




Mariah;;
this game was PHENOMONAL!! i lurvedd ittt...i almost cried cuz i liked it sooo much!! it is very challenging and makes u think. but i cheated for half of the questions becaus i went to google and looked up the answers but yoo kno how that goes....n e hoo!!! GREAT FUNN!!






Photo Analysis Challenge:


Mariah;;
i aint even like dis game cuz i cant see that well....just playin but it was aight but it didnt tell you if you found all the pictures are not


Morgan;;
This game was aiigghht. It didn't have anything to do with history so it was almost fun. Not quite, but almost. The only thing i had to do was click the differences soooo yeaahhh.












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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Japanese Gameeess.

What's In the Photo;;
Morgan- I only got five correct. It made me guess what the blurry Japanese images were used for. The red booksack thingy was really cute...

Mariah-i got 3 out of 10 correct. ive never seen any of those things so my guess was way off


Gesture Game;;
Mariah- 4/4 Chinese gestures are much different than american gestures. When the boy was pointing to his nose i thought he was just pointing to his nose but that is actually the gesture for ME. but in america we would probaly just point to our chest.

Morgan- 2/4. It was funny. The little dog peed on the girl. Japanese people are weird.


Hiragana Picture Matching Game;;
Morgan- It's hard. I don't know any of them. Like, I got all of them wrong except tree. Kayla told me which one that was. But it took me like six tries to get all the other ones.

Mariah-i never seeen half of these lil characters in my life and i kept getting the answers worng so i ot mad and i stopped playing because i got 0 right but it had pretty colors!!

Japanese Celebrations;;
Mariah-

Morgan- I got all of them right. it was pretty easy. and kind of boring. there really isn't much to say about that game soooo :).

















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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Chapter 4 section Review

1. Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Huang Ho....Indus Valley civilization
2. 1/3 of earth's land area....3 1/2 Billion people.....60% of earth's population
3. Himalayan Mountains, Northern Plains, Deccan Plateau....
4. Religion-which is Hinduism....Social arrangement- Caste System
5. Mauryas.
6. Siddartha Guatama, buddhism still survives in china today.
7. Guptas
8.Mogul Empire
9. British East India Trading Company
10. Adoniram Judson
11. New trade partners
12. Mahatma Ghandi, Nehru
13. Indira Ghandi and Rajiv Ghandi
14. The Gupta Dynasty contributed great advances in art, literature, and math.
Identify......

Mount Everest-Highest place on earth
Dead sea- lowest place on earth
Indus Valley Civilization-first indian civilization to settle on the indus River
Aryans-Barbaric people invaded india
Dravidians- indegenous people
Asoka-Maurya Empires greatest ruler
Tahj Mahal-means best of buildings
Pakistan- west pakistan becam known qas this
Bangladesh- used to be east pakistan
Hindustani-the official language of modern pakistan
Sepoy Rebellion- 1857 native indian troops revolted against britain
Adoniram Judson- father of American missions


ooooh BLAH!!! WE DONE