March 10

Today we presented our slides while Mr Schick read the book again.  It was a little easier to understand this time.  My slide was on Barbarians.  Barbarians were the names given to anyone who did not speak Greek.  Which was anyone but the Greeks including the Spartans.  Before i did this presentation all I knew was that people called other people they didn't like that, like as an insult. Now i really know what it means.

March 9

Today in class we started talking about Ancient Greece.  I really hope we talk a little bit about greek mythology because to me that is so cool and interesting.  Mr. Schick read us a book and i did not understand a word he said.  Then we started a project where we make the power point.  We all have something to write about.  I have Barbarians.  I had no idea what they were at first.  They are people that the greeks thought were uncivilized.  It was anyone who didn't speak their language.  Finishing it up tonight.

March 7

Today in class we took our test on Egypt, ancient and modern day.  The test was okay.  I only studied for like 20 min last night.  I think the hardest part was the short answer.  The essay was easy because we could use our blogs.  I think I did okay on the test, but I think I did the worst on the short answer.  Hopefully I got a good grade! :)

March 4

Today in class we went over Egypt now and how it is doing compared to the rest of the world.  We learned that 90% of the country's religion is Muslim and the rest is Christian.  We also learned about past people in charge of the country like Hosni Mubarak, who just stepped down from power to leave the country with a governing system called military junta.  The democratic election are in September of this year.  We also learned about Libya's ruler, Muammar Gaddafi.  Because Libya has been uprising against him, Gaddafi has been violently opposing it.  He says that there in no fighting in his country but he bombs his own people because they are revoltin against him.

March 3

Today in class we finished talking about ancient Egypt.  We learned about how people were ranked in ancient Egypt. The highest were the Pharaohs and the lowest were the servants.  There were government officials, soldiers, scribes, merchants, artisans, and farmers were in the middle.  Then Mr. Schick let us out early because we had an extra long class.  It was a pretty good class.  Thanks Mr. Schick!

March 2

Today in class we went over Ancient Egypt.  We talked about what was going to be on the test on Monday.  We learned about the Nile River and how their whole life was centered around it.  They depended on everything for it like for water, bathing, and crops.  They even had figured out when the river was going to flood and when the land was going to very fertile.  It flooded every year in July and it leaves behind rich, fertile soil in October.  This helped them figure out a calendar.  Learn some more tomorrow.

On the Test

• geography
• centered around the nile river
• cant live anywhere but around the nile because it is desert
• planting crops
• drinking water
• bathing
• transportation
• first people to invent a sail
• it is the only river to flow north
• flows downward and empties into the Mediterainian
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich, fertile soil
• helped them figure out a calender
• managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
• the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• daily life
• List
• Pharaoh-highest
• religious leader and political leader of the egypian people
• holding titles: Lord of the Two lands and Hight priest of the temple
• as the lord of the two landsthe pharaoh was the ruler ruler of the upper and lower land.  He owned all the land made laws collected taxes and defended EGYot against fighters
• Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh but much later (51-30 BC) 
• Government Officials-Nobels, Priests
• upper class, known as the white kilt class-priests, physicians, engineers
• Soldiers-highly respected
• used wooden weapons (bows & arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• Scribes-educated
• history started when they started writing this down
• scrives kept record, told storeies, wrote poetry described anatomy an medical treatments
• wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• Merchants
• Used money/barter system- merchants might accept of grain for payment- later coinage came about
• Artisans-made things
• would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• Farmers
• wheat, barley, lentils, onions- benefited from irrigation of the Nile
• Slaves and Servants-lowest and has the most of them
• helped the wealthy with household and child raising
• not abused
• pharaohs
• goddesses and gods
• pyramids
• the great Sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 BC* 4500 years ago
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• a recumbent lion with a human head
• oldest monument in the world
• Turks shot off nose
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