Test

Today we had a Test in West Civ. The test was on prehistory to Mesopotamia. I think that I did really good on the test. We were allowed to use our blog so the test was easy for us.  I knew most of the content so the test was pretty fair. I think that my blog had a lot of information and it was useful for the test.

Review

Today we reviewed over the test that we will have on Friday. The test is on prehistory to Mesopotamia. In class we went over the power point and Mr. Schick talked about his pet peeves were.his pet peeves were when someone offers to open the door and then they stand in the door way and when you thank someone for something and they say no problem. After talking about pet peeves we reviewed over the power point and talked about what we would need to know for the quiz.
We talked about how Mesopotamia was a land that was a very fertile area with two rivers going through it, then after over planting and climate change the area has become very dry and hot environment where nothing can be grown. We also talked about Hammurabi and how he made a law system to keep the city in order.

More Questions and Terms

Who was King Hammurabi, and why was he important? He was the King of Babylon who created a series of laws known as “Hammurabi’s Code” 

Define these terms:

• prehistory- the time in history before written records
• Paleolithic Age- the stone age where no tools were used and humans had two jobs, hunter and gather
• Neolithic Age- The new stone age where people made tools, weapons, and ways to plant their own food. Since these things were made they had people who were good at doing these things do them as jobs starting a job system.
• Agricultural Revolution-The shift from hunting and gathering to centering on agriculture and permanent settlements
• cuneiform- The earliest form of writing invented by the Sumerians 
• ziggurat-was a Sumerian temple built on top of a “mountain” of earth
• Indo-Europeans-people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the Near East.

Fertile crescent

- District sumer

-A population increase

-Humans discovered a way to store water and use it for its needs 

Government kings

Questions to consider

When and where did human beings first emerge? 200,000 years ago

Why did the period known as "prehistory" end? Humans began to learn how to make tools and how to grow their own plants.

What made the rise of civilization possible?The rise of civilization was possible by the growth of humans finding a way to make things easier such as making shelter.

Name some early technological innovations. The spear, the knife, the plow, and the wheel.

How did hunter/gatherers live? The hunters would go out and hunt for animals such as rabbits and deer to eat for food. The gatherers would find food like berries and other fruits.

Facts

-Humans would wake up and there main thought would usually be to find food

-The humans would travel in groups of about 20 people

First Day

Today was the first day of West Civ. Today we set up our new West Civ blogs. Along with the blogs we went over how classes would go and what we would use for class. Mr. Schick told the class that we would have to blog every night that we had class except for Friday. Most of the class procedures seemed the same as in Human Geo.After making our blogs we had to send Mr. Schick the URL of the blog. There was a lot of new students in my class so I wonder how this semester will go.