Today's class 3/7/11

Today in western civilization we took our test on Ancient Egypt. I thought it was pretty easy, and I am pretty sure I got an A on it. I wonder what we are going to start next, something new? Or are we going to continue with more Egypt? Either way I don't mind, just so long as it is interesting, not that it isn't all the time. Maybe we could study some of feudal Japan or I would love to study mythology and Ancient Greece.

Today's class 3/4/11

Today in western civ class we discussed some more notes, but this time on Modern Egypt. We talked about things like their geography, their religions and languages, and their government as well. Our test on Egypt is on Monday, I hope everyone does well!

Notes on Modern Egypt 3/4/11

Modern Egypt

• tourism
• agricultue
• cotton
• Cairo is a metropolitan area, big tourist site
• like New York
• Dam controls the floofing of the Nile
• * Akhet, Peret, Shomu *
• 79 million people - biggest population of Middle East
• Official language - Arabic
• Relgion- 90% Muslim, most of the rest are Christian
• major conflicts (12th worst in religious violence, and 5th worst for religious freedom)
• recenly had a revolution - Hosni Mubarak  was kicked out of office, in 2011. (this year)
• * Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak *
• Sadat made alliance with US - was killed by his own people by a radical hate group
• Gamal made alliances with the Soviet Union
• Now ruled by a military junta, military is running things.
• elections will be held in 6 months
• Lybia *

Today's class 3/3/11

Today in western civ class we reviewed yesterdays notes on Ancient Egypt. We also went through more notes from the prezi. Our quiz will be next week. The notes I took are in the previous post.

Notes on Egypt Quiz 2

Scribes

• wrote in heiroglyphs and heiratics
• heiratics are the alphabet and heiroglyphs are like words

Soldiers

• used wooden weapons (bows&arrows, spears) w/ bronze tips and might ride a chariot

Priests and etc

• known as the white kilt class. priests, physicians, engineers. upper class

Pharaoh

• religious and political leaders
• had contact directly with the gods
• titles : Lord of the twon lands and High Priest of every Temple
• numbers 1 in the land
• ruler of upper and lower Egypt, owned all land, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh; didnt happen often
• women had pretty descent rights
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharoh, but much later (51-30 BC) more on her when we study Greece

Today's class 3/2/11

Today in western civ class we discussed our upcoming Ancient Egypt quiz. some of the things we talked about were their daily ife, the pyramids, and georgaphy. My notes are listed in the previous blog post.

Notes on Egypt Quiz

Geography

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile
• Nile used for water for drinking, irrigaitng, and for bathing, and transportation
• first people to ever make a sail and use them
• ever July the Nile floods
• every October it leaves behnd rich soil
• managing the river rquired technological breakthroughs in irigation
• first people to figure out the calendar
• the delta is a broad marshy triangular area of fertile soil

Daily life

• Socila Strata
• Slaves and servants = helped the wealthy: household chores etc
• Farmers - grains, lentils, barley, onions
• Artisans - crafters, carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and heroic deeds, and their leaders
• Merchants - money/barter system was used, might accept grain as payment. later coinage came about
• Scribes - kept records, told sotries, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments.
• wrote with hieroglyphics and hieratic
• Soldiers
• Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
• Pharoh

Pyramids

• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• a recumbant lion with a human's head
• oldest monumental statue in the world