Daily Haley Blogs

At the beginning of class, we reviewed our notes from earlier classes. We talked about the 14 domesticated animals that were over a 100 pounds, herbivores, could produce at a young age, and can live in a community with other animals. We talked about nutrient filled vegetables that were healthy to eat.  Notes  ·       New Guinea survived for thousands of years. ·       They didn’t advance because they spent all their time feeding themselves. ·       Most of the villages of the Fertile Crescent were abandoned. ·       There were few trees and no grass left. ·       Fertile Crescent- in the middle of a land mass so people that lived there could just move to another area. ·       Same latitude often has the same temperature, plant and animal life, and same days. ·       Americans (United St...

·       Also had another source of food. §   Animals ·       Animal domestication- keeping animals to reproduce, fertilize, and feed your family. §   Very resourceful for hair to make clothes, milk, etc. ·       Goats and sheep were the first animal to be domesticated in the world.  §   Used first for meat, but proved to be useful for other things. ·       Oxen and horses helped plow ·       Beasts of burden were not native, so plowing was done by human labor.  ·       Even today there are no beasts of burden in New Guinea ·       Animals that eat meat are NOT usually domesticated because you’d have to raise other animals to feed them.  ·       14 successfully domesticated animals- goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels,...

·       People of European nations have dominated the world 1.      Jared Diamond  §    1 of the most Original Thinkers  §   “haves from have nots” =some people have things, some people don’t have things  §   How did the world get this way? 2.      Out of Eden  §   Papua New Guinea (North Australia) §   Diamond is a professor at UCLA, biologist, specialist in Human Physiology, author, and a bird watcher §   New Guineans life a remote life §   People have been living in this part of the world for over 40,000 years, longer then North and South America  §   They still live the same as they did 40,000 years ago §   Why is Papua New Guinea so much poorer? §   Yali- “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?” §   Cargo= material possessions §   That’s evidence of white mans pow...

Today was my first day in Mr. Schick’s western civilization class. First part of the class Grace John explained to us what we read before class starts, told us the rules, and told us that we write blogs every night for homework. The rules for the class are to never have your computer open when not told to, and never play games in his class, before class starts or while class is going. Before class Mr. Schick reads “This is the day that the Lord has made” and the students say “let us rejoice and be glad in it”. Mr. Schick explained to us what we type in our blogs. Our blogs consist of what we did in the class or what we took notes on. I was a little nervous for coming to a new class today because I had never met Mr. Schick, but now I’m very excited for the semester to come.