Questions For Sarah

1. How did you feel as you were just starting as a part of this revolution?
2. What main reasons caused you to be a part of this revolution?
3. Did you feel safe since you were in such a huge crowd or were you still worried about the police brutality that was going on?
4. Was the police brutality aspect of the whole problem a serious reason you began to be a protester?
5. What feelings went through your head when you heard that Mubarak stepped down on the 11th?
6. What did you do to get your point across during this huge revolution?
7. Were you a part of the April 6th movement also?
8. Has this revolution, and the breaking down of the police force, made living unsafe to be in Egypt since there is almost no protection?
9. How has things changed since Mubarak stepped down?
10. Have you seen the police brutality first hand? 

In Class 2-23-11

In class we watched the few people that would stand up in front of the class do their rap on Egypt. We also watched a video on a young girl in Egypt that is greatly affected by whats going on in their country. In the video it showed that the girl had had some bad relationships with people in her family because some of them disagree with her idea to be a part of the Revolution of the Egyptian government. The video also shows how a corrupted government not only affects life directly, but it also affects it indirectly depending on how you look at it. We also talked about how the Revolution in Egypt have began a wave of revolutions in areas around them in the same situation. 

Interesting Facts on Ancient Egypt

• The pyramids were started in 2575-2150 bc.
• The Pyramids were built to put the dead bodies in.
• So if the Pharaohs body was not done properly it would not be able to carry out it's job as King of the Dead.
• There is 80 known pyramids built in Egypt
• The First built pyramid was named The Step Pyramid of Dejoser. 2630 bc.
• The largest pyramid in the world was The Great Pyramid. It was built for King Khufu. 2.3 million blocks to build it. Each block weighed 2.5 tons a piece.
• The Egyptian people buried their dead in the dessert. Their body dehydrated quickly form the heat and the sand. Which created real life like mummies.
• Later Egyptians buried their dead in coffins. To protect them from the animals.
• They soon found out that these bodies decayed because they were not dehydrated from the sun and sand.
• Years later the Egyptians acquired a way preserving their dead. It is called embalming is being wrapped in linen and cloth.
• The most powerful person in Egypt were called the Pharaoh.
• They were the political and religious leader.
• Holding the name of Lord of the Two Land and High Priest.
• Since he was ruler of the Two Lands he was the Ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt.
• He owned all of the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt from Foreigners.
• Egypt has many Gods and Godesses for most of the things that they need.
• Some of their Gods and Godesses were thought to be there during creation.
• Some Gods and Godesses were gave annual offerings.
• Some brought the floods each year.
• Other Gods gave the people protection.
• Some took care of themafter they died.
• The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to recognize and worship their Gods and Godesses so life would go smoothly.
• The Egyptians had an almost perfect time system that relied on the sun and and moonlight to see the time.
• The Egyptians also had a good writting system. They created images and signs which were called hieroglyphics. The richer people or royalty used scribes.

Beginning Egypt.

Pyramids:

• Egyptians began getting good building pyramids around 2575 B.C. to about 2150 B.C. 
• Pyramids were built to house the dead, mummified bodies of the Pharaohs.
• If Pharaohs weren't properly taken care of after they died, it was said that they could not follow through with their duties to be king of the dead, breaking maybe the most important Egyptian cycle.
• The Step Pyramid of Djoser was the very first pyramid built, built in 2630 B.C. to hold the Pharaoh Djoser.
• The Great Pyramid was the largest pyramid in the world and was built for King Khufu, and took 2.3 million stone blocks to build, with each block weighing from 2.5-15 tons.
• Egyptian villagers overseen by the Pharaoh's supervisors were the builders of the pyramids, not slaves.  

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html

Mummy's:

• People that died were buried in the desert so their body gets dehydrated from the sun and sand to suck out all the fluids in them, which causes them not to disintegrate.
• After a while, Egyptian's began burying them in coffins to protect them from animals. 
• Body's began to disintegrate when they were in coffins because they cant be dehydrated by the sun or sand.
• Years later, the Egyptians acquired a way preserving their dead. It is called embalming is being wrapped in linen cloth. 

http://ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/home.html

Pharaohs: 

• A Pharaoh was the most powerful person in Egypt and was a political and religious leader. 
• A Pharaoh was known as "Lord of the Two Lands" because he had control over upper and lower Egypt.
• He protected Egypt from foreign people trying to invade. 

http://ancientegypt.co.uk/pharaoh/home.html

Essay Question

In ancient times there used to be groups of people called hunter gatherers, and they were a group that relied on the success hunters would have so they could eat that day. But that was a problem because what if the hunters couldn't kill anything that day, or even if the animals in that area ran out? They came up with an idea to have gatherers also so even if hunters don't have luck with finding food some people can go out and look for wild berry or things like that. After a while people sadly found out they will run out of resources sooner or later, and when they faced that they had to pack their bags up and move on to another place that has things they can hunt and gather. Another problem with the gathering part of hunter gatherers is that the things they gather could usually never hold up and sustain a healthy diet because of the nutrients that they lacked. And even if the plants could hold a healthy diet, there wasn't close to enough things to gather to continuously feed whole civilizations of people. 
People made the transition to these hunter gatherers to more advanced farmers because they came to realize that hunting and gathering worked on occasion but defiantly not a main food source. In an ancient area called the Fertile Crescent, it was said that the first ever group of farmers and the idea of farming started there. Instead of hoping you catch something that night so you can feed your family or gathering berry's that may or may not make you sick people decided to take advantage of planting things such as wheat, grain, and barley. The Fertile Crescent was uncovered by a Canadian architect and he found that there was a building in the civilization made just for the crops that they began planting and began to domesticate. When they started farming crops it changed everything. Civilizations didn't have to migrate so often because they didn't have to chase after their food, because they could plant it whenever they pleased. Also since they planted things now, not everyone in the civilization had to go out and hunt, so that gave more people the opportunity to become specialized workers. The beginning of specialized workers also made things better because they could build more things and begin other things.
Farming began in this "Fertile Crescent" because of they're geographical luck. They literally had everything they needed to have success in planting crops and starting farming. They had fertile soil so they could easily plant things instead of having to dig into hard rocky ground that would stop the plant from growing. They also had a great climate for planting because it wasn't too cold for the plants to live, but it wasn't too hot either so they were blessed with that and that helped them grow faster than an area like Papua New Guinea.

In Class 2-9-11

In class today all we did was go over the things that are going to be on the test we have next class. All my notes are on my onenote

More Papua New Guinea Notes

• Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are the official languages. 
• Has a literacy percentage of 57.3%.
• Median age structure is 21.6 years. 
• Life expectancy is about 66 years. 
• They're 75th in the world for HIV/AIDS related deaths.
• Degree of risk for major infectious diseases is very high.
• Melanseian, Papuan, Negrito, Microneasion, and Polyneasian are they're ethnic groups. 
• Has cannibals in Papua New Guinea.
• 27% Roman Catholic, 19.5% Lutheran, 11.5% United Church, 10% 7th Day Adventists, 8.6% Pentacostal, 3.2% Anglican, 2.5% Baptist, 5.2%  Evangelical Alliance, 8.9% Protestant, 0.3% Bahai, 3.3% other beliefs. 

Papua New Guinea Notes

• Papua New Guinea has 6 million people
• They now have coal, silver, gold and things like that
• Unemployment rate is 11th in the world
• Industrial production growth rate is 16th in the world
• Mostly Christian 
• Oil production is 68th in the world
• Real growth rate is 34th in the world
• Almost half their military is females
• Only 125,000 internet users out of their 6 million population
• 54,000 people living with AIDS
• 125th in the world for electricity income
• .49% of their land is arable 

In Class 2-4-11

In class today we went over the domesticated animals that the class learned about yesterday while I was absent. After that we continued to watch Guns, Germs, & Steel and where domesticated animals are from. It showed that there were NO domesticated animals that began in Papua New Guinea and thats one of the main reasons that they haven't progressed from desperately looking for food and other places are more advanced. The Fertile Crescent was an area right above the Middle East that was basically a blessed area for agriculture because its so Fertile so thats where it got its name. In this area there was what looked to be a civilization with buildings that used natural air conditioning by having windows and such. These homes weren't just places to rest your head, they were actually a safe place from nature. The people around the Fertile Crescent figured out how to make plaster out of limestone, which was a breakthrough in itself. But New Guineans on the other hand, still have been using stone tools and their building structures haven't changed for centuries. This is because there was never a specialist that handles steel by making tools made of steel or something and no one ever taught the New Guineans about new structures. The Fertile Crescent wasn't the main source of the growing of farming because the area almost ended because the climate was dry and people exploited the environment, causing the communities to move on and settle somewhere else. Since the Fertile Crescent was found in a huge area of land, Eurasia. But Papua New Guinea is an island basically isolated from everyone else so no one would want to come down there because New Guineans had nothing to offer for the knowledge of this stuff. The spreading of better farming happened because of where the Fertile Crescent was located, if it wasn't around anything else it probably wouldn't have thrived in the first place, but if it did then they couldn't get it around to everyone because of where they were located. But since it was found in the middle of the biggest land mass on earth, farming spread after the civilizations had to leave the Fertile Crescent. Diamond says that the people in Papua New Guinea are less fortunate than other places because everyone has a different 'hand dealt to them'. The people in New Guinea aren't stupider then us but they just haven't been given the same technology as other people so they haven't been given the same opportunities as others. Diamond says that the answer to the New Guinean asking why Americans have so much more cargo was geography.