Cyberday 2

Short Answer A
Inventions discovered back in the stone age, helped the Egyptians farm, trade, battle, and more. The sailboat being one of them, allowed for transportation along the Nile, allowing trade to nearby villages, etc. The Egyptians invented the plow. The plow made it possible to produce more food for storage. The Egyptians invented hieroglyphics to write. These were pictures used to describe events, etc and stood for whole words.

Short Answer B
Pyramids are the most fascinating structures in the world and are still standing today, thousands of years later. However, there is more to this three dimensional triangle, for example, when they were first build, the pieces could so well fit together that a person couldn't slip a knife through the blocks. On the inside of the Pyramid, Past pharaohs are buried with valuable items that are worth some money. However, finding these chambers are difficult. Each pyramid has a maze inside, with traps that could leave you dead, or leave you trapped. To get inside, it is said that on the outside, there is a single block that can be removed, but finding this block out of thousands is hard.

Cyberday 1

Power has been off and on..

Essay A
The social hierarchy of the Egyptians was: from top to bottom
 Pharoah
 Government officials
 Soldiers
 Scribes
 Merchants
 Artisans
 Farmers
Slaves and Servants

    Starting with the top, Pharaohs were the religious and political leaders of the Egyptian people. They help two titles, "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of every Temple." Lord of the Two Lands was the ruler of upper Egypt. He owned all land, made laws, and collected taxes.
    The Government officials were apart of the upper class, known as the "White Kilt Class." This was composed of priests, physicians, and engineers.
    Soldiers used wooden weapons(bows and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots.
    Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments- they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic.
    Merchants accepted bags of grain for payment- later , coinage came about.
    Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes.
    Farmers raised wheat, barley lentils, onions-benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
    Slaves and Servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties, working 24/7.

Essay B
The Nile River, flowing south to north, helped the Egyptians with many things. Farming became easier, it allowed for better transportation, and it became just an easy access to water. However, the Nile did overflow at times, especially, in July. The Egyptians made their own little path for the water, when it does overflow. It helped them water crops better and extra water for bathing.
  

Pyramids

We watched a video on the inside of a pyramid and talked about how every pyramid has chambers that have a different path to get to Pyramids held treasures buried with past pharaoh's and pyramids were built so precisely that one couldn't stick a knife in between the marble. However, there was one block that could be easily removed to get inside, but it proved to impossible to find back then. Pyramids also had a chamber that went actually below the ground.... called the queen's chamber. 

Good Job Mr. Schick

Today, Mr. Schick broke another desk, spending half of our class time picking up the thousands of erasers and pencils, and thumbtacks. There was constant screaming, giving me a headache and making me want to just leave the room, but other than that we watched a video on mummification, talking about the layers and layers of resin and straps involved in this process. When a ruler is mummified, a bird has its organs taken out as well, and buried with the ruler. There is also a drawing of the ruler buried a long with it. 

The 5 topics

In class we learned about the five things that make up Egypt.
-Geography
-Daily Life
-Pharaoh's
-gods and goddesses
-Pyramids

Geography-Egyptian life is centered around the Nile, allowing crop growth, transportation, etc.
Daily Life- there are 8 social classes: from top to bottom
-Pharaohs
-Government Officials-Nobles, Priests
-Soldiers
-Scribes
-Merchants
-Artisans
-Farmers
-Slaves and servants

-Pharaoh's were the religious and political leaders of the Egyptian people. Holding the tittles "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of every Temple"

Government officials- upper class, known as the "white kilt class"

Soldiers-Used weapons(bows and arrows, spears) w/bronze tips and might ride chariots

Merchants- accepted bags of grain for payment-later coinage came about

Artisans- would have statues and reliefs showing military battle's and scenes

Farmers- raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions- benefitted from irrigation of the Nile

Slaves and Servants - helped the healthy with household and child raising duties

Gods and goddesses
Ra- the sun god
Hatshepsut- a women who ruled for 20+ years focusing on trade and not military like the male pharaoh's.

The two lands

The Nile flows south to north and was a major provider for the Egyptians. Lowe Egypt was the wide land of the Nile Delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The Two lands were united under a single king, or pharaoh. Pharaoh's were powerful, worshiped as a god, connected to other godss and goddesses, allowed to have multiple wives, and all routes to success were through the palace.

SNOW DAY

today in class we did nothing :)
       during advisory, we were told that we were going to get off early at 10. But, we still had to go to West Civ. Mr. Schick suggested a schedule for snow days like this. We all thought it was terrible because no one wants to be at school till 2 in the morning. Other than that, I am scared of falling on my face and dying :O