Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Chapter 7 section review 1

1. aegan sea,the peninsula.
2. mionans, mycenaenans, trojans.
3. minoans.
4. the myceneans besiged troy.
5. dorians/ hellans.
6. homer about the acconts of the past.
7. athrea, zeus
8. mean polics.
9.

Friday, September 25, 2009

4) Scroll through photos 1-6 and answer the following questions. Post your answers to your blog.


a. Tell me what YOU think is going on in each photo (don't look at the caption!):
Photo 1- archisois finding fossils.
Photo 2- women wearing jewlery.
Photo 3 - tourist looking at two lions.
Photo 4 - the big city, nairboi.
Photo 5 - lake vicoria.
Photo 6 - the kenya flag.


5. Now, go back and post the captions for each photo to your blog. Were you close?
Photo 1- people finding fossil in northern kenya.
Photo 2- massi women wearing jewerly.
Photo 3 - tourists looking at lions.
Photo 4 - found in 1889, naboi, the captial.
Photo 5 - kenya lake victoria.
Photo 6 - kenyan flag.

facts or photos

3) Browse through Facts 1-14 and answer the following questions. Post your answers to your blog:


a. Tell me about Kenya's geography/landscape. keyna has savannas all over africa.
b. Where is Kenya? What's the capital? they live in highlands, nairbri
c. What lies WEST of Nairobi? the land of descrents to the great dift valley.
d. Tell me about the animals in Kenya. What's set up to protect them? rhinos, cheethes, elphants, etc.
e. What 2 bodies of water is Kenya located between? How does this affect the culture there? indian ocean and lake victoria.
f. Significance of N. Kenya & Tanzania? the origanal birtplace of humans.
g. Tell me about slavery there in 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s. that they were kinpped and takin as slaves by arabs.
h. How many languages/ethnic groups are there? more than 60.
i. Tell me about the kids & school.
j. What are some important parts of Kenyan culture? school are improtant and free.
k. What's the current government of Kenya like? its repbulic
l. Official name? Form of Gov't? Population? Official Languages? republic of kenya, and shailli and engish.
m. Money? Mountain Ranges? Major rivers? kenyan shilling, mau, anti/ghana.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Monday, September 21, 2009

Games

Game score: 380
1) Complete Chapter 6 Section Review 1 plus identify (page 82)

1. 2/5, sahara- north, south- kilan.
2. altas, killmanjorb.
3. lake vitoria, the nile is the source.
4. great rift valley.

dark contient- was africa.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

7. Answer the following questions from "FACTS 1-17" and post your answers to your blog:
a. What do Nile crocodiles resemble? What do they feed on? they resemble amored tanks and they feed on incersts and fish.

b. How does the male croc get the female croc's attention? he slapps his snout.

c. Where does the female lay her eggs? a digging hole.

d. How many eggs does she deposit? Does she watch them? 25 to 80 eggs, yes.

e. How do the mom & dad croc know when the baby crocs are ready to hatch? they send a high pitch sound.

f. Where does mom bring them once they hatch? they send a high pitch sound.
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g. How do crocs control their temperature? they keep it cintant, bc they are cold-blooded.

h. What's the scientific name for crocodile? How long can they grow? crocodylus nilotics.

i. How long can they live? What kind of feet do they have? 200 millon, and 20 ft.

j. Where do Nile crocs live? around rivers.

k. How can you tell an alligator from a crocodile? cros have narrow snouts, and all. have rounded snouts

l. What do crocs use their tails for? to protel though the water.

m. What do crocs eat? (mammals)they eat other animals.

n. What type of huge prey do crocs kill? lions, hippons.

o. Tell me about a croc's brain. they have well devopled brains.

p. How do stones aid in digestion for crocs? they dnt.
a. Describe what's going on in the Egypt photos (don't look at the caption!)
Photo 1- large ships in the canal.
Photo 2- a shoping market.
Photo 3 - a cramel out on the dersert.
Photo 4 - the city of cairo.
Photo 5 - women geting water out the nile.
Photo 6 - the egyptain flag.

5. Now, go back and post the captions for each photo to your blog. Were you close?
Photo 1- large ships steam though the seuz canal.
Photo 2- shoppers walking though the open air market
Photo 3 - a camel standing near the pymaids of giza.
Photo 4 - cario crowed with people
Photo 5 - the women filled jugs of water from the nile.
Photo 6 - egyptain flag.

Questions

3. Answer the following questions from "FACTS 1-16" and post your answers to your blog:
a. Tell me about rainfall in Egypt, and the importance of the Nile River. that without the nle river, egypt would be all desret.

b. Egypt is divided into what 2 sections? higher egypt and lower egypt.

c. Tell me about Northern & Southern Egypt. southern contains low mts. and northern contains of wide valley.

d. Egypt is home to which animals? Which plants? cheeths and hyenas. they have a wide varitey.

e. What did the Egyptians leave paintings & carvings of? of large animals.

f. Civilization was established by what year? How long ago did they settle there?3000b.c. and 8000 years ago.

g. When did Lower & Upper Egypt unite? 3100 B.C.

h. When did Egypt fall under Roman control? When did Muslims take over Egypt? 31 B.C.

i. Who invaded Egypt in 1882? What did they want? When did Egypt declare independence? Britsh wanted control of the suez canal.

j. 90 percent of Egyptians are what religion? muslm.

k. Why is overcrowding a problem in Egypt today? they are growing fast. and that most of the people are moving close to the nile river.

l. Why are children highly valued in their culture? they would help the farms.

m. What type of gov't is Egypt today? demotric republic.

n. What is Egypt's largest single source of foreign income? Why do you think that is? it is tourism.

o. What is the official name of Egypt? Arad republic of egypt.

p. What is the capital of Egypt? cairo

q. What is the population/official language of Egypt? 78, 887, 007. and they speak arabic.

r. What's the currency in Egypt? (Money) egyptain pound.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mummy Paragraph

I thought the game was cool. I learn alot from this. Like after 70 days you dead, you have your ferenal. and also they made fake eyes out of oions, so it would look like they had really eyes. Also that men who practice the art of embalming are highly respected, as they are responsible for preparing you for eternal life.

Mummification

a. "Introduction" - Ancient Egyptian history spans how many centuries? What did the people believe Pharaoh was? How did they "achieve immortality"? 5,000 years ago. strong rulers.

b. "Dead" - What was embalming? Who did the embalming? What role did linen, your body, the priest, natron salt, canopic jars, tools, and oils play in the embalming process? wabet. The men who practice the art of embalming.

c. "Organs Removed" - Which organs were removed? What did they do with them? Your liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are removed through the incision in your stomach and stored in canopic jars.

d. "Get Stuffed" - What does "Get Stuffed" refer to? What did they stuff you with? they were filled with sawdust, rags and chaff.


e. "Tomb Bound" - What did they do to get your body ready for the tomb? What was involved in bandaging the body? What might be placed in your tomb if you were rich? It will take 15 days to wrap and need 20 layers of linen bandages. golds, and jewelry.

f. "Coffins Etc" - Tell me about Ancient Egyptian coffins. What went in the coffins with the body? What went in the tomb with the coffin? If you are very wealthy you could have as many as three coffins all fitting snugly inside one another. they would have alot of pic of the gods.

g. "Your Funeral" - What did an Ancient Egyptian funeral look like? Tell me about the procession. you would have your fenferal 70 days after your dead. You will be buried on the western side of the river, where the sun sets.

h. "Eternal Rest" - Tell me about tomb raiders. What do they do and what do they want? that they would try to rob the tombs and they wanted golds and jewelry.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Complete Chapter 5 Section Review 3 plus identify

Score; 60. 50

1.30- dynaastines
2. khufu, menkaure
3. genieis 12;15-20
4. persutation of hebrews.
5. hastphapth
6. egypt estabish its empire this period time.
7. became republic, advance egypts interest at any cost.
8. Mubrak, heallied with sudam siddenn.


infentiy- giza- a main city in egypt.
greats sphinx- head of man, body of lion.
twelfth dynasty- est. their cap. at thebes.
hykesos- sheprard kings.
ramsesII- monarch.
alexandria- the great city of alexander the great.
setuagint- old testment in greek.
ptomly- one of his generals and gained control on egypt.
cario- new captial.
suez canal- britsh officers made this.
honsi- he did sadat as the president.

Chapter 5 section Review 1/2

1. Finish Chapter 5 section Review 1/2 plus identify.

1. africa; sahara, and the nile.
2. northern eastern owner of africa
3. the land ham.
4. thats where africa culture started.
5. northern egypt and southern egypt. menes.
6. nile river
7.
8. its the world longest river, and one of the few that flow from north to south.
9. its as 700 characters.
10. memphis and thebes.
11.
12. egyptians were humanis.

indentfiy-
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Games

Scores:95

At school and home

These houses are built from bricks but mine was made from river mud.School work was written in ink on pieces of broken stone or pottery (ostraca), or on wooden boards that could be cleaned and used again.Scribes taught their own sons, and sometimes larger groups.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

games

3. Answer the following questions once you enter the tomb:


a. What is a "stela"? it tells u what sort of person was buried.
b. What type of writing did Ancient Egyptians use? hieroplhs.
c. Once you decipher the hieroglyphs, what does it spell? priest
d. Once you descend into the tomb, what do you find?
e. What do the statues represent? gods
f. Describe the gods of the Ancient Egyptians. one was a eagle, ram, bird.
g. What are the "canopic" jars? What's in them? stomach, liver, lungs, intenies.
h. What is the coffin made of? wood.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

1. Answer the following questions using your Chapter 3/4 Study Guide. Post these answers to your blog:


From 3.1-
What was the first empire to rule after Sumer? balyion
Who was Hammurabi?
What is the Babylonian Genesis/Enuma Elish? its a book, tht exalt their god and balyon.
Who were the Hittites? Why are they important? indo-epeorean, made iron.
From 4.1 -
What is the highest place in Asia? Lowest? mt. everst, and dead sea.
Name the 3 main rivers in Asia. YIO JUI MAN
Why is India called a “subcontinent”? Because its geo. is dictly separted from the rest of asia.
Name the 3 major land regions in India. dectea plateu, northern plains, and mt. system.
From 4.5 -
What are the names of the 4 islands that make up the nation of Japan? Hokadio, honshu, kyshu, shikou.
What’s Japan’s famous mountain called? mt. fuji.
Who were the earliest inhabitants of Japan? lol.
What is Shinto?

Friday, September 4, 2009

Sumo

1. Two men wearing what looks like diapers. Facing each other in a ring, pushing , gasping to win .

2. One who fores their oppent to the ground or out the ring.

3. Many centiers ago.

4. they do their hair. they have to be fat.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Games

i learned some things. but not that much, lke bigest waterfal i in venzule.

2. for the second game, it was easy. i finshe it in 2:06.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Games

Score: 9/10
the game was weird, i didnt know a little piece of cloth, can protect someone from danger

Score;4/4
Thats was mean when the girl got ran over by the goat.
score: 3/4