Today in class we continued to watch the video Guns, Germs, and steel. We learned about how wheat gave the Middle East advantages because unlike plants in Papua New Guinea, wheat was easy to find and easy to store for a long time. People then began to domesticate plants by planting them instead of them naturally growing. People started to control plants and when and where they would grow. This way they could always have food near them. Like they domesticated plants, they then learned that instead of killing animals like goats, they could domesticate them and use them to their advantage. With domesticating animals you could get milk, meat, coats out of their fur, and with bigger animals like donkeys or horses, you could use their power and muscles to farm and plow.
Today in class we reviewed for our test on Egypt: Upper Egypt- 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the nile (mountain area) Lower Egypt- Wide land of the nile delta (sea level) In 3100 BC Narmer united Egypt Pharaoh is king and god- all powerful Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they call "maat" gods were portrayed with animal heads or bodies people in Egypt believed in after life called ka they preserved bodies with mummification Earliest Egyptian writing formed in 3100 bc and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics papyrus- paper Papyrus was stored in scrolls and were books of ancient Egypt Jean François Champollion discovered hieroglyphics Egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transportation ability on the nile- technological breakthrough British archaeologist who discovered tutankhamon's tom in ...
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