january 29

Today we took our test. We were allowed to use our blogs which was great. I wish i would of had he answers to the questions that i didnt know. I didnt know the multigods one and the calender one and the flood one. Other than those I feel pretty good. I think i got a good grade. The test was fair and i think that the format was ok. I prefer multiple choice with no essay or short answers, but that's in a perfect world. I guess Mr. Schick thought that would be too easy for us but whatever!

january 28

I was not in class today because I had a basketball game.  Studying for my test tomorrow.

january 27

Today in class we continued to talk about Hammarabi's code. Mr. Schick said if we had a good discussion on the code, we could take the test Thursday instead of tomorrow. These were some of the ones I shared and thought were interesting:

• 196. If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be knocked out.
  
  
• 197. If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his limb shall be broken.
  
  
• 198. If he has knocked out the eye of a plebeian or has broken the limb of a plebeian, he shall pay one mina of silver.
  
  
• 199. If he has knocked out the eye of a patrician's servant, or broken the limb of a patrician's servant, he shall pay half his value.
  
  
• 200. If a patrician has knocked out the tooth of a man that is his equal, his tooth shall be knocked out.
  
  
• 201. If he has knocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. 

january 22

Here are the definitions :

Prehistory- the period of time before written records

Paleolithic Age- second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC

Neolithic Age- latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)

Agricultural Revolution- or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further transition from a living form of agriculture into a more advanced and more productive form of agriculture, resulting in further social changes, and some argue worse individual living conditions

Cuneiform- denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.

Ziggurat- (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel 

Indo-Europeans- of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India.

january 20

Today was my first day of western civ and it was kind weird not having all the same people in my class anymore. We lost Cody, Zach, and Jon which was pretty sad but we still have many of the other people from my human geo class. I'm happy that I still have my same seat. The class is also bigger. I think it is gonna be a good semester. In class today, we set up our new blogs and sent our web addresses to Mr. Schick. The new kids seemed pretty "off balance" when they heard about the blogs, but other than that I think they were petty excited for the class. I am excited too though. I hope it will be fun and I will get to learn as much as I did in human geo.