Today's west civ class 2/3/11

Today was Student Appreciation Day!!! Mr. Schick gave us cookies today. There were pink ones and regular chocolate chip. We finished watching the Guns Germs and Steel movie. More people settled into villages, and since they had enough food on hand, people could learn new things like how to work with fire and make plaster. The Middle East was named the Fertile Crescent. Later on the climate became too dry and the ecology too fragile. No one could farm and they migrated to areas around the Fertile Crescent. they brought their crops and animals with them which in turn caused civilization to thrive in other areas such as Egypt and Europe. At the end of the movie Jared Diamond said "People and fundamentally similar." I believe this is very true.