Reflection:
Civilization was being scattered all over the world and was bringing a big impact. During early Sumerian civilization gave a rise to written language. Not only Sumerian, but Norte Chico was also a distinctive in many different ways. Many historians are wondering how this all started. The one thing that historians are sure is that the roots in civilization during the Agricultural Revolution. Civilization was a form of higher society. Chapter 3 gives a way to think about how life developed and become more complex. War, slavery, disease, subordination of women, and many more incidents have played a role in building up civilization in more complex well developed society. This shows how humans started off from a small settlement from the Neolithic Era and now to a more advanced civilization. Now there are more advanced technologies, hunting methods, and writing/communication. Since writing has developed society now starts to develop laws that people can follow. As civilizations increase people from other cultures could exchange new ideas and materials to one another sharing and then leading to more advance/ developed society. Within the civilization, as society starts to increase, lands are being divided into cities and states. All these reasons give us the idea civilization was complex and getting more complex as years pass by.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
DGP CHAPTER 2 Writing and Power
Reflection:
Back in the early civilizations writing was a way people used to communicate with one another. Writing back then was not only writing with a pen and paper. Cave paintings, message sticks, wampum belts knotted cords, bean patterns and more were forms of ways to communicate with each other. As years passed by people made writing a little bit difficult by putting specific codes. Back then there were 2 ways of writing ideographic and phonetic. Ideographic was through the use of pictures and phonetic signs of roman alphabet. During these times people did not have paper like us, so people had to write these writings down on a papyrus, which is a type of paper that the Egyptians had made. Within different cultures there were different styles of writings that they used. These writings have then been important historical documents that people today keep as evidence. Historians take care of these documents very carefully so that no mistakes have been made when translating them or preserving them. Chapter two gives us a way to think about how people back then were very intelligent in the way how they communicated with one another. The chapter shows us how people started out by drawing and then slowly developing into phonetics. The chapter gives a broad view on how each different cultures had their own different ways of communicating. This leads us to how we are today, people who live in America and people who live in France do not speak and write the same. This gives reveals to us that since different cultures have different ways of writing, it shows that there are different levels of power. This means that people who are writing are probably in the upper class, so the more people are writing the more knowledge and power there is in a country.
Back in the early civilizations writing was a way people used to communicate with one another. Writing back then was not only writing with a pen and paper. Cave paintings, message sticks, wampum belts knotted cords, bean patterns and more were forms of ways to communicate with each other. As years passed by people made writing a little bit difficult by putting specific codes. Back then there were 2 ways of writing ideographic and phonetic. Ideographic was through the use of pictures and phonetic signs of roman alphabet. During these times people did not have paper like us, so people had to write these writings down on a papyrus, which is a type of paper that the Egyptians had made. Within different cultures there were different styles of writings that they used. These writings have then been important historical documents that people today keep as evidence. Historians take care of these documents very carefully so that no mistakes have been made when translating them or preserving them. Chapter two gives us a way to think about how people back then were very intelligent in the way how they communicated with one another. The chapter shows us how people started out by drawing and then slowly developing into phonetics. The chapter gives a broad view on how each different cultures had their own different ways of communicating. This leads us to how we are today, people who live in America and people who live in France do not speak and write the same. This gives reveals to us that since different cultures have different ways of writing, it shows that there are different levels of power. This means that people who are writing are probably in the upper class, so the more people are writing the more knowledge and power there is in a country.
Monday, September 12, 2011
WW CHAPTER 2
Reflection:
World history starts off with the beginning of where life might have began, then to water and technology, and now onto agriculture. Agriculture played an important role in the past and the present. Chapter 2 goes on to talk about when agriculture started within each countries (about the same time period). It goes on to compare agricultural within the different countries. Agriculture started after the Ice Age. The weather (climate change) was a big help to maintaining bigger mammals, which gave more advantages for humans to hunt for meat ("broad spectrum diet"). These changes made agriculture possible. mostly in Southwest Asia there were a variety of plant and bigger mammals compared to the other countries. The reasons could be the cold and dry weather. Different climate changes had a huge affect during the Agriculture Revolution. Historians believe that by looking at the size of the population/ settlement they can tell that whether or not at that time the weather was good or not and whether or not the agriculture was fully developed. Historians believe the globalization of agriculture was because of the gradual spread of agriculture and migration of agricultural peoples, so this went from Southwest Asia to Central Asia and North America. During this Agricultural Revolution there were increases of human society and more varieties of plant and animals. This led to the rise of a more bigger population and a better country for humans to live in. This caused a big difference between countries which caused competitiveness with each other. The bigger and better country was stronger and had more power. Agricultural Revolution caused a huge change in the evolution of life. If we (present) did not have agriculture, then society would have changed a lot. We would not have as many people,animals or plants. With lack of plants and animals will lead to lack of food and living would have been more difficult. The increase of animals helped humans not starve and not affect humans from the climate change.
World history starts off with the beginning of where life might have began, then to water and technology, and now onto agriculture. Agriculture played an important role in the past and the present. Chapter 2 goes on to talk about when agriculture started within each countries (about the same time period). It goes on to compare agricultural within the different countries. Agriculture started after the Ice Age. The weather (climate change) was a big help to maintaining bigger mammals, which gave more advantages for humans to hunt for meat ("broad spectrum diet"). These changes made agriculture possible. mostly in Southwest Asia there were a variety of plant and bigger mammals compared to the other countries. The reasons could be the cold and dry weather. Different climate changes had a huge affect during the Agriculture Revolution. Historians believe that by looking at the size of the population/ settlement they can tell that whether or not at that time the weather was good or not and whether or not the agriculture was fully developed. Historians believe the globalization of agriculture was because of the gradual spread of agriculture and migration of agricultural peoples, so this went from Southwest Asia to Central Asia and North America. During this Agricultural Revolution there were increases of human society and more varieties of plant and animals. This led to the rise of a more bigger population and a better country for humans to live in. This caused a big difference between countries which caused competitiveness with each other. The bigger and better country was stronger and had more power. Agricultural Revolution caused a huge change in the evolution of life. If we (present) did not have agriculture, then society would have changed a lot. We would not have as many people,animals or plants. With lack of plants and animals will lead to lack of food and living would have been more difficult. The increase of animals helped humans not starve and not affect humans from the climate change.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
EXTRA CREDIT
NOTES FROM CLASS:
Prologue-
context simpler
agenda of the author( Western Civilization vs. World History)
-author constantly challenging previous values
method/approach( the 3 C's connection, challenge, comparison)
Part 1 Intro:
describe era of human experience
-balance of human experience (95%/5%)
-95% -> Paleolithic Era (prehistoric)
-liquid( water, wine and beer)
-5% -> historic but some people do not think its historic
couple 1,000-2,000 years ago history has changed through environment
EXAMPLE: spit on your cup and drink it!
Response: people do not want too WHY? because that is gross WHY? because now the spit is exposed and contaminated
are we still evolving? yes because of pace of life
author sees -> Paleolithic era
does he dislike or like?
author uses this word often -> gather-hunter
"gather" gives more emphasis/ a female emphasis (author puts females first before men)
gender -> more egalitarian or less?
more egalitarian ( we have some opportunities)
from 20th century
less egalitarian (maybe technology)- gives us possibilities
farming man's job
roles changed: men (external activities) and female (internal activities)
society change:
what roles did the ice play? from people movement.
-easier to walk across/migrate
-sea levels goes down
-more exposed land
what does this tells us about artifacts?
harder to find WHY? because they are deep beneath the water
people settled in Easter Island (part of South America)
would it make a difference that Polynesia arrived in America?
pacific islander associate w/ native culture visa versa
modern gather-hunter
2 groups:
-Chumas (Santa Barbara)
-the San (southern Africa)
-San Jo/'hoansi (clicking sound)
-2 specific egalitarian (human characteristics: ego and humility):
-no leader (communally decision making)
-marriage (no one has the upper hand)
-"insulting the meat" (human boastful)
(prominent role) arrow that kills who gets to decide how the meat gets cooked
lack of hierarchy and sense of social ability
chumas (a bit more settle)
more hierarchy
wealth (easier time because easy access to food)
had canoes (tomol) brought to them by Polynesians
discover island (need boat) because there were $
did not engage in warfare because they had wealth.
Prologue-
context simpler
agenda of the author( Western Civilization vs. World History)
-author constantly challenging previous values
method/approach( the 3 C's connection, challenge, comparison)
Part 1 Intro:
describe era of human experience
-balance of human experience (95%/5%)
-95% -> Paleolithic Era (prehistoric)
-liquid( water, wine and beer)
-5% -> historic but some people do not think its historic
couple 1,000-2,000 years ago history has changed through environment
EXAMPLE: spit on your cup and drink it!
Response: people do not want too WHY? because that is gross WHY? because now the spit is exposed and contaminated
are we still evolving? yes because of pace of life
author sees -> Paleolithic era
does he dislike or like?
author uses this word often -> gather-hunter
"gather" gives more emphasis/ a female emphasis (author puts females first before men)
gender -> more egalitarian or less?
more egalitarian ( we have some opportunities)
from 20th century
less egalitarian (maybe technology)- gives us possibilities
farming man's job
roles changed: men (external activities) and female (internal activities)
society change:
what roles did the ice play? from people movement.
-easier to walk across/migrate
-sea levels goes down
-more exposed land
what does this tells us about artifacts?
harder to find WHY? because they are deep beneath the water
people settled in Easter Island (part of South America)
would it make a difference that Polynesia arrived in America?
pacific islander associate w/ native culture visa versa
modern gather-hunter
2 groups:
-Chumas (Santa Barbara)
-the San (southern Africa)
-San Jo/'hoansi (clicking sound)
-2 specific egalitarian (human characteristics: ego and humility):
-no leader (communally decision making)
-marriage (no one has the upper hand)
-"insulting the meat" (human boastful)
(prominent role) arrow that kills who gets to decide how the meat gets cooked
lack of hierarchy and sense of social ability
chumas (a bit more settle)
more hierarchy
wealth (easier time because easy access to food)
had canoes (tomol) brought to them by Polynesians
discover island (need boat) because there were $
did not engage in warfare because they had wealth.
DGP Chapter 1 The Need for Water in Ancient Societies
Reflection
As years pass by civilizations start to develop. The cities in countries started to supply food using transportation and also farming. At that time people would store food in safe places for later time during the years when there is a lack of food. The civilization in the past was very different from the present because of the environmental change. These changes were different in every country. Rivers near the Persian gulf changed over time affecting food (water) and land. In Mesopotamia there were different types of irrigation because of the environmental changes (spring, fall and winter). This was not easy for the people back then because irrigation caused famine and lack of food. Every country had different methods to develop there civilization from other countries. In chapter one historians show evidence using pictures and writings of the past civilizations and how people lived during that time. During that time people did not have enough knowledge to make high tech tools to make living easier and also back then the environment changed dramatically and unpredictably for humans to know, so this shows us that people back then were very wise.
As years pass by civilizations start to develop. The cities in countries started to supply food using transportation and also farming. At that time people would store food in safe places for later time during the years when there is a lack of food. The civilization in the past was very different from the present because of the environmental change. These changes were different in every country. Rivers near the Persian gulf changed over time affecting food (water) and land. In Mesopotamia there were different types of irrigation because of the environmental changes (spring, fall and winter). This was not easy for the people back then because irrigation caused famine and lack of food. Every country had different methods to develop there civilization from other countries. In chapter one historians show evidence using pictures and writings of the past civilizations and how people lived during that time. During that time people did not have enough knowledge to make high tech tools to make living easier and also back then the environment changed dramatically and unpredictably for humans to know, so this shows us that people back then were very wise.
Friday, September 2, 2011
WW Prologue, Introduction, Chapter 1
WW Prologue
Reflection:
No one really knows how the universe was really created, how humans were created, or how the planet Earth really evolved. Scientists believe that everything started from the "big bang" and that humans evolved form apes. Religious people believe that God created the universe and mankind. In the prologue it shows an estimate of when the universe began/started to when mankind approached on Earth by putting it in a calender format. Also the prologue goes into the world history that before people were educated on nations and civilizations, but now history will be more global. Prologue gives key topics for us to think about which are comparison, connection, and change. These three topics are broad but gives us the idea that when studying world history one must compare people from different nations, such as culture or language; also one must connect with people from another country; and also one must change from the past whether it is economy or political views.
Introduction: "First Things First"
Reflection:
People really do not know when history started, so it is difficult for people to tell others where everything really began. This also applies to scientists or historians. In the introduction it explains to the reader that not anyone knows accurately, but people such as scholars, historians or scientists think that things started when there were changes to the planet. Historians think that humans evolved from apes and it started in Africa. As time goes by Homo sapiens (humans) start traveling on foot out of Africa and move towards other countries. This shows that humans have dispersed out more globally. In the past humans did not really know how to raise milk, meat, or eggs etc... but as humans started to develop more knowledge, humans realized how to eat animals and plants seeds. From there humans started to advance more into the culture from a certain country the humans were in.
Chapter 1
Reflection:
As human knowledge started to grow more ideas came to them such as, how to gather food(hunt); how to harvest the food; and many more. Humans started to adapt to the environment they lived in and from there started a new culture. In chapter one it talks about in more detail than it did in the introduction on migration. Historians believe that humans probably walked on foot since there were no boats or cars out of Africa to other countries such as the Middle East and towards Europe. Since the ice age historians believe that this caused humans to travel more north. The environment caused the humans to travel in certain directions which shows us how humans are globally dispersed. From there humans settle down and bring in a new and distinct society. Scholars or historians do not really know what religious ceremonies these humans did, but from certain evidences such as, rock art gives historians an idea that humans back then had some sort of rituals. This could be where some sort of religion may have started. As time goes by the population within each country grew, the environment changed, and people started to connect with one another. Within countries every culture was different from one another, environment as well, and lifestyle. Chapter one goes into comparing different paleolithic societies, the San and the Chumash. The book compares these two societies to see what lifestyles and culture each had and what differed from another. This world history of the beginning gives us the time to think about the past how the humans back then lived/ survived, also think in a different perspective that the world may have started out like this, and also that humans back then adapted to the environment and did not pollute rather than how we modern day humans have ruined the environment.
Reflection:
No one really knows how the universe was really created, how humans were created, or how the planet Earth really evolved. Scientists believe that everything started from the "big bang" and that humans evolved form apes. Religious people believe that God created the universe and mankind. In the prologue it shows an estimate of when the universe began/started to when mankind approached on Earth by putting it in a calender format. Also the prologue goes into the world history that before people were educated on nations and civilizations, but now history will be more global. Prologue gives key topics for us to think about which are comparison, connection, and change. These three topics are broad but gives us the idea that when studying world history one must compare people from different nations, such as culture or language; also one must connect with people from another country; and also one must change from the past whether it is economy or political views.
Introduction: "First Things First"
Reflection:
People really do not know when history started, so it is difficult for people to tell others where everything really began. This also applies to scientists or historians. In the introduction it explains to the reader that not anyone knows accurately, but people such as scholars, historians or scientists think that things started when there were changes to the planet. Historians think that humans evolved from apes and it started in Africa. As time goes by Homo sapiens (humans) start traveling on foot out of Africa and move towards other countries. This shows that humans have dispersed out more globally. In the past humans did not really know how to raise milk, meat, or eggs etc... but as humans started to develop more knowledge, humans realized how to eat animals and plants seeds. From there humans started to advance more into the culture from a certain country the humans were in.
Chapter 1
Reflection:
As human knowledge started to grow more ideas came to them such as, how to gather food(hunt); how to harvest the food; and many more. Humans started to adapt to the environment they lived in and from there started a new culture. In chapter one it talks about in more detail than it did in the introduction on migration. Historians believe that humans probably walked on foot since there were no boats or cars out of Africa to other countries such as the Middle East and towards Europe. Since the ice age historians believe that this caused humans to travel more north. The environment caused the humans to travel in certain directions which shows us how humans are globally dispersed. From there humans settle down and bring in a new and distinct society. Scholars or historians do not really know what religious ceremonies these humans did, but from certain evidences such as, rock art gives historians an idea that humans back then had some sort of rituals. This could be where some sort of religion may have started. As time goes by the population within each country grew, the environment changed, and people started to connect with one another. Within countries every culture was different from one another, environment as well, and lifestyle. Chapter one goes into comparing different paleolithic societies, the San and the Chumash. The book compares these two societies to see what lifestyles and culture each had and what differed from another. This world history of the beginning gives us the time to think about the past how the humans back then lived/ survived, also think in a different perspective that the world may have started out like this, and also that humans back then adapted to the environment and did not pollute rather than how we modern day humans have ruined the environment.
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