Final Day before test.

        Jared Diamond is a biologist, and professor of UCLA. He really enjoys watching birds. He travels to a place called New Guinea, often. He talked about ancient civilization and grainarys- is a place to store grain. A drah is possibly the first permanent village. Mesopotamia -> Egypt -> India -> China -> America. Any animals that were over 100 pounds and could reproduce in their early life were a boost to civilization. The 14 animals that were considered under these guidelines were:

• Goats 
• Sheep
• Pigs 
• Calves 
• horses
• donkeys
• 2 different types of camels
• llamas 
• water buffalo
• reindeer
• mithans 
• cattle

13 of which that were located in Egypt, North America, and Africa. 3 of the "farm animals located in Middle East. None of which originated in New Guinea. All the other civilizations had a "head start." New Guineans still live like ancient civilizations did at one point. They eat a tree, called Sagu, use the earth as a home, and don't have the use of technology. They call all of our stuff "cargo." Cargo is all the material goods that the other countries have. Different crops can't grow in different climates or different degrees. Animals and Wheat caused the uprise in civilization.  

Wednesday

We continued the movie and took more notes. John Diamond traveled to New Guinea where the people there live like the olden days. We talked about how in ancient civilization Asia grew rice, America grows corn, squash, and beans, and Africa grows sorghum,and, yams.We talked about all the animals all the other civilizations had, and how New Guinea had none of those. Also, the best type of animal to have was one that could reproduce within 3 years.  

beginning and a summary.....

We started a movie, about Jared Diamond, a birdwatching biologist, who also a professor at UCLA. The movie was called Guns, Germs and Steel. People back then thought power was due to race. All great civilizations have had an advanced technology, large populations, and well organized work force. People didn't stay in Mesopotamia because it got way to dry, and they needed to move on. A good domesticate plant has to be easy to grow, able to be stored, and nutritious.

today

Today we went over more about the powerpoint about urban civiliztion. We went over more about B.C and the greek and romans and their empires and pictures of the agora and acropolis'. I found this very interesting about the roads of migration. I thought about ever walking the road of migration and relaized how long that would take. Today was an over all good class period.

FINALLY FRIDAY.

It's finally friday, AND WE HAD A 2 HOURE DELAY!!!  Today we talked more about Urban Revolution. We went over the second revolution. We talked about how The Greeks ruled majority of the empire yesterday. Today we brushed over more in the topic of the steel mills. We talked about Bethlehem steel. It was pretty cool because I live by there.

After a long break....

After a long break, and 2, 2 hour delays and one off day. We finally had class. We went over a power point about Urban Geography. We went over definitions such as rural, urban, political and more. It was a long break and I am sad to have it come to an end so quickly.