Monday, August 31, 2009

Asia Map Scores

Madison:
121 seconds

Tiffany:
128 seconds

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Taj Mahal Questions and Answers.

Where is the Taj Mahal?
-Uttar pradesh and agra

When was it built?
-1631

Who built it?
-Shan Jahan

Why was it built?
-In memory of his wife, Mumtaz, that died in childbirth

What materials is it constructed from?
-made mostly of marble

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Indus Valley Game

1. When did the Indus Valley civilization exist?
- Over 4,000 years ago

2. What countries did this civilization spread across?
- Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

3. How many settlements have archaeologists discovered?
- over 2000

4. Which city may have been an important port city?
- Lothal

5. Which city was excavated by archaeologists in 1920?
- Harappa

6. What does “Mohenjo-Daro” mean?
- "mound of the dead"

7. Which is the biggest settlement archaeologists have found in the Indus Valley?
- Mohenjo-Daro

8. What type of photographs do archaeologists usually take?
- aerial photos

9. What’s significant about “First Street”?
- it's the longest and widest street

10. What were bricks used for there?
- building house walls; often made of mud; also for drains, building, and wells.

11. Did their houses have drains?
- most had drains

12. What were the wells used for?
- used for getting fresh drinking water

13. What were the narrow drains used for?
- used for draining water away from the city

14. What artifacts did you find using the “Excavation Map”?
- model cart, necklace, terrocotta tablet, set of weights, seal, metal plate, and figurines.

15. Finish playing the game. Each person in your group should write a TWO paragraph
summary about this game and post it to your blog.
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This game was kinda fun. I connected with my inner child. (Lol) I learned about how bricks and drains were used. The wells were built higher as needed for taller buildings. I didn't even know First Street existed until I played this game. It's the longest and widest street.

I didn't know that the Mohenjo-Daro existed either. It was the biggest settlement that archaeologists in the Indus Valley. I also learned how the Indus Valley Civilization existed many years ago, 4,000 to be precise.

Madison
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This game was a okay. It had some very interest facts about the india civilization. i found out what year this civilization exist which was 4,000 years ago. I also found out that most houses had drains. i also found out that most city had import city called lothal.
i mean that was game was totally cool and very fun after you get into it. that was one very long a game and that man needed to walk faster. the green animal was kinda werid.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Section Review 2 And Identify

Abraham: father of a great nation
Patriarchs: founding fathers of the nation of Israel
Moses: one of the greatest men in world history, to deliver the Iraselites from Egyptians bondage & lead them into the land promised to their father.
Covenant: sloemn agreement
Theocracy: a nation ruled by God
Alphabet: phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideals
Sinai Script: the 1st true alphabet
Literacy: the ability to read & write one's own language
721BC: northern kingdom fell to assyrian empire
586BC: southern kingdom fell to the babylonians


Section Review:

1)Canaan, Palestine, Israel, and Judaism,Christianity, & Islam
2)Isarel and Judah
3)Main highway of the ancient world, great trade route linking continents, nations, and cultures
4)Ten Commandments
5)Morality (right and wrong, good and evil)
6)
7)King David, King Solomon. David became the ruler of a united monarchy and established his capital at the former Jebusite stronghold of Jerusalem, Solomon Isreal was the greatest nation in the world around 1000BC
8)Empire was divided into the northern & southern kingdom Israel And Judah
9)AD 70

History Games

HOPPING THROUGH HISTORY
Madison:
-Correct: 35
-Incorrect: 14
-Level: 5



Invasion history game
Tiffany:
-correct:4
-incorrect:1


Kiana Orca Preserve Game
Madison:
- Correct: 7
- Incorrect: 2


Brick Busters History Game
Tiffany:
Correct: 10
incorrect:2
Level:2

Space...Games
Madison:
Correct: 2
Incorrect:1

Middle East Geography Game Scores

Tiffany: -45
Madison: -45

Monday, August 24, 2009

Chapter 3:Section Review 1 & Identify

SECTION REVIEW


1. prinicple of place-value notation.


2. realm of government and law


3. Hittites


4. Assyrian Empire


5. Ashurbanipal

Ninevah


6. Nabopolasser

Nebuchadnezzar

in 586 B.C.



7. Cyrus the Great

God has given him all the kingdoms of the earth...(2 Chronicles 36:23)



8. Darius I & Xerxes I

Darius I



9. Ahasuerus (Xerxes I)

Artaxerxes



10. They had a much higher regard for the sanctity of law the the Assyrian and Babylon monarchs. The Persian ruler was under the law.






IDENTIFY!


Babylon: 1st empire to rule the middle east after sumer


Hammurabi: king of Babylon


Enuma Elish:was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exault Babylon and its chief god, another name for Babylonian Genesis


Justice: the use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful.


Tiglath Pileser I: he seized Babylonia & established the Asssyrian empire


Caldeans: semitic people from Arabia, formed a coalition with the Medes and Scythians and overthrew the Assyrian empire


Hanging Gardens of Babylon: counted among the 7 wonders of the ancient world


Daniel: one of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians and eventually became an important official in Babylon


Zoroastrianism: higher regard for the sanctity of law than the haughty assyrian and babylon monarchs.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Today's Event in History!










August 21, 1959

Hawaii becomes the 50th state!!

The modern United States receives its crowning star when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state. The president also issued an order for an American flag featuring 50 stars arranged in staggered rows: five six-star rows and four five-star rows. The new flag became official July 4, 1960.

The first known settlers of the Hawaiian Islands were Polynesian voyagers who arrived sometime in the eighth century. In the early 18th century, American traders came to Hawaii to exploit the islands' sandalwood, which was much valued in China at the time. In the 1830s, the sugar industry was introduced to Hawaii and by the mid 19th century had become well established. American missionaries and planters brought about great changes in Hawaiian political, cultural, economic, and religious life. In 1840, a constitutional monarchy was established, stripping the Hawaiian monarch of much of his authority.

In 1893, a group of American expatriates and sugar planters supported by a division of U.S. Marines deposed Queen Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii. One year later, the Republic of Hawaii was established as a U.S. protectorate with Hawaiian-born Sanford B. Dole as president. Many in Congress opposed the formal annexation of Hawaii, and it was not until 1898, following the use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the Spanish-American War, that Hawaii's strategic importance became evident and formal annexation was approved. Two years later, Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S. territory. During World War II, Hawaii became firmly ensconced in the American national identity following the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

In March 1959, the U.S. government approved statehood for Hawaii, and in June the Hawaiian people voted by a wide majority to accept admittance into the United States. Two months later, Hawaii officially became the 50th state.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Birthday Events

Tiffany Birthday
-May 28, 1961

Appeal for Amnesty campaign launches
On this day in 1961, the British newspaper The London Observer publishes British lawyer Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" on its front page, launching the Appeal for Amnesty 1961--a campaign calling for the release of all people imprisoned in various parts of the world because of the peaceful expression of their beliefs.


Benenson was inspired to write the appeal after reading an article about two Portuguese students who were jailed after raising their glasses in a toast to freedom in a public restaurant. At the time, Portugal was a dictatorship ruled by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Outraged, Benenson penned the Observer article making the case for the students' release and urging readers to write letters of protest to the Portuguese government. The article also drew attention to the variety of human rights violations taking place around the world, and coined the term "prisoners of conscience" to describe "any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing…any opinion which he honestly holds and does not advocate or condone personal violence."


"The Forgotten Prisoners" was soon reprinted in newspapers across the globe, and Berenson's amnesty campaign received hundreds of offers of support. In July, delegates from Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland met to begin "a permanent international movement in defense of freedom of opinion and religion." The following year, this movement would officially become the human rights organization Amnesty International.


Amnesty International took its mandate from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which holds that all people have fundamental rights that transcend national, cultural, religious and ideological boundaries. By the 10th anniversary of the Appeal for Amnesty 1961, the organization it spawned numbered over 1,000 voluntary groups in 28 countries, with those figures rising steadily. In 1977, the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize.


Amnesty International owes much of its success in promoting human rights to its impartiality and its focus on individuals rather than political systems. Today, Amnesty International continues to work toward its goals of ensuring prompt and fair trials for all prisoners, ending torture and capital punishment and securing the release of "prisoners of conscience" around the globe

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Madison's Birthday!!


On this day in 1957, Althea Gibson claims the women's singles tennis title at Wimbledon and becomes the first African American to win a championship at London's All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.


Gibson was born on August 25, 1927, in Silver, South Carolina, and raised in the Harlem section of New York City. She began playing tennis as a teenager and went on to win the national black women's championship twice. At a time when tennis was largely segregated, four-time U.S. Nationals winner Alice Marble advocated on Gibson's behalf and the 5'11" player was invited to make her U.S. Open debut in 1950. In 1956, Gibson's tennis career took off and she won the singles title at the French Open--the first African American to do so--as well as the doubles' title there. In July 1957, Gibson won Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2. (In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, when he defeated Jimmy Connors.) In September 1957, she won the U.S. Open, and the Associated Press named her Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958. During the 1950s, Gibson won 56 singles and doubles titles, including 11 major titles.


After winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Open again in 1958, Gibson retired from amateur tennis. In 1960, she toured with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, playing exhibition tennis matches before their games. In 1964, Gibson joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, the first black woman to do so. The trailblazing athlete played pro golf until 1971, the same year in which she was voted into the National Lawn Tennis Association Hall of Fame.


After serving as New Jersey's commissioner of athletics from 1975 to 1985, Althea Gibson died at age 76 from respiratory failure on September 28, 2003 at a hospital in East Orange, New Jersey

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Descriptions & Pictures

Picture 1:
- guys chilling in a pool and one is being a daredevil and diving

Picture 2:
- old lady in a white dress that is playing with flying animals

Picture 3:
- dude walking down a ziggurat

Picture 4:
- lady, with a big smile, proud of her purple finger

Picture 5:
- very junky shopping center


bodies of water:
- Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea


PICTURES!!















Geospy score

Tiffany 7/7
Madison 7/7

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

IRAQ VIDEO

a. What is known as the "Cradle of Civilization"?
-Iraq
b. Where did these civilizations develop?
- between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
c. Recorded history in Iraq began with what group?
- summerian
d. What did the Mesopotamians build to collect water?

- mound,canal,and channel
e. Name 2 Mesopotamian cities.
- Ur and Uruk
f. What did crop surpluses do?
- allow them to expand
g. Who lived at the temple?
- houseed function of daily life
h. What was a "ziggurat"?
- a Sumerian temple
i. What were kings revered as?
- as "gods"
j. What is "cuneiform"?
- Sumerian art of writing
k. What did they write on their clay tablets? (They kept records of what?)
- different things happening in history sheep and rain
l. What was the "Epic of Gilgamesh"?
- oldest piece of history outside of the Bible
m. Describe the "hanging gardens" of Babylon.
- the terraceeed roof gardens, they were counted among the seven wonders of the ancient world
n. Who was King Hammurabi? What was Hammurabi's Code?
-he established a kingdom of babylon, it was one of the most important earmarks of a civilization
o. What did Mesopotamia leave a legacy of?
- raw literature
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Monday, August 17, 2009

IRAQ FACTS

a. Fact 1 - Iraq is dominated by which 2 rivers?



- Tigris and Euphrates




b. Fact 2 - Rocky deserts cover about what percent of the land?



- 40%




c. Fact 3 - Are their protected natural areas in Iraq?



- No




d. Fact 4 - What species are at risk in Iraq?



- Cheetahs, Wild Goats and Dugongs




e. Fact 5 - Describe "carp" fish.



- 300lbs. fish




f. Fact 6 - What's gone on in Iraq during the past 15 years?



- It has witnessed two major wars, internationalsanctions, occupation by a foreign government, revolts, and terrorism.




g. Fact 7 - What is Iraq's nickname?



- Cradle of Civilization




h. Fact 8 - Who established the first known system of laws?



-Hammurabi




i. Fact 9 - When did Babylonian rule end?



- 539 B.C.




j. Fact 10 - When did Iraq become an independent country?



- 1932




k. Fact 11 - What happened to Saddam Hussein?



- Saddam Hussein was captured, tried for crimes against humanity, and executed.




l. Fact 12 - True or False: Iraq is one of the most culturally diverse nations.



- True




m. Fact 13 - Today, how many Iraqis can read/write?



- 40% can read or write




n. Fact 14 - When were Iraq's first democratic elections held?



- In January 2005




o. Fact 15 - What does Iraq have the "world's second largest supply of"?



- Oil



p. Fact 16 - What's the official name of Iraq? What is the capital city? How many people live there?


- Republic of Iraq



- Baghdad



- 26,783,383




q. Fact 17 - What is Iraq's money called?

- New Iraq dinar






Geography Quiz Scores:
Tiffany made an 80%
Madison made a 90%

Friday, August 14, 2009

In Class Update!

Hey!
This is Madison and Tiffany.
We're sitting in World History class learning about the Sumerians and next to all these other crazy people.

Updates will be sure to follow.