Changes in Mesopotamia

In humanities we watched a three minute movie showing mesopotamia, a map and a map with cities. We had to do an activity called see think and wonder. In the Mesopotanian map there were some of the civilizations that we reasearched on the wall of thoughts. The mesopotamian map is far different than our modern map. The mesopotamian map doesn't have cities or borders. In our modern map we have cities towns and borders. Things were different back then. I wondered how come the mesopotamian maps don't have borders don't they own there own land or something. I saw a number of things stars borders and other things. What I thought was were the stars on the map capital cities or something else. The see think wonder was challenging. It took me a while to complete it.

Why do civilizations have laws?

Some people woder why civilizations have laws. This is what I say. Without civilization we would all be dead because without laws you can do whatever you want and there are bad people in the world who wish there are no such things as laws. Everyone will get murdered everything will be a disaster.

Answering Mr Mcqueens questions

• New Guinea has a disadvantage to the middle east because in the middle east they have better animals such as cows,sheep,goats and horses
  


• NG(New Guinea) has the food that can be stored like taro.


• NG has a tropical climate so it will rain more to make better crops
  

Connect Extend and Challenge

In humanities we watched a movie called guns,germs and steel. After the movie we wrote things we knew all along, New things we learned from the movie and any questions or lingering thoughts. At first I wasn't sure what I knew what the movie connected to my previous learning. After that I knew that animal droppings made good fertalizer. There were alot of new things that I learned. The first is wheat and barley is better then the taro root in New Guinea. Another thing I learned is that the people in New Guinea don't have much protein so they eat giant spiders to gain enough protein(ewww). My question is how did they learn how to farm did it come in a dream or just came to them just like that.

Advantages and disadvantages of New Guinea

I choose this headline because in New Guinea they don't have the environment to grow wheat and barley. The available food they can get is sago and taro. the problem is that sago takes a long time to turn into a kind of dough that they eat and its low on protein and taro rots quickly. Another disadvantage is that New Guinea does not have the animals that they can eat. The only protein they can eat are giant spiders. They don't have cows,sheep and goats like middle easterns do. The Natives of New Guinea have pigs. Which is good to eat but does not produce wool and fur. The advantages of New Guinea have productive crops and geographic luck.

The wall of thoughts

In humanities we learned about what makes KL a civilization. There a alot of changes nowadays. It was different in the past. Here are a few changes

Food

• We get our food from supermarkets, the trees in our backyard(that bear fruit)
• Early man had to find the food(hunting,gathering etc).

Water

• People buy water now
• Before we came early man got water for free(lucky them)

Nature/Environment

• We don't take good care of our environment
• They didn't have cars, factories etc

Resources

• Modern resources steel,other metal, bricks etc
• Fire, rocks, bones, plantes others

Shelters/Buildings

• Apartments, houses and condos
• Lean to huts, tree branches and caves

Tecnology

• Computers, guns and factories
• Rocks, spears, hand axes and fire

Education

• School, tutors, jobs, parents, etc
• Elders, taught each other, experience etc

Comunication

• Languages, gestures, internet etc(whew)
• Grunts, hand movements, cave paintings etc

Transportation

• Bikes, cars, boats etc
• Feet

Ecnomy

• Stock markets,government etc
• Trading, jobs

Government/Poilitics

• Court, jury and leader
• Family, teamwork and no leader

Belif systems

• Religions
• Consequences

Entertainment/Art

• Games, tv, movies and others
• Hunting, ceremonies and others

Culture

• Different ways
• Tribes

What makes KL a civilization

In KL they have shelter(so we don't have to sleep in the outdoors, water(So we don't die of thirst), Food(So we don't die of hunger),transportation(So we don't have to walk everywhere) and technology( We can send email, call people with phones and cell phones etc), KL is also a civilization because KL is a city which works together to survive and thrive. Without those things we might never have KL!