Chapter 3 First Civilizations

The first place civilization showed up was in Southern Mesopotamia. It stared around 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE. After a short time civilization rose in Africa. The people worked and exchanged things. For example they traded cotton, beans, fishing nets, and squash. The upper class people were wealthy and owned landed. being rich and making profits was important to them. The rich people were able to get away with crimes. That's not fair, but I guess life isn't either. The rich people had the best positions in the military. They also didn't have to do any labor. Even though society developed a while ago is still has improving to do.

Discovering The Global Past

This chapter talked about written communication. Petroglyphys was craving on the cave wall and Petro grams were painting that told stories about the history. I thought this packet was going to be long and boring, I was kind of interested. The painting look beautiful I don't even people these days can paint like that anymore. The Sumerians started the written system. There were two writing systems Ideographic and Phonetic. Phonetic system was about sound and Ideographic was about thoughts. The writing system spread to China, Egypt, and Central America. Good thing the language was developed so people can communicate well. Papyrus was a type of paper that the Egyptians developed. 

Chapter 2 First Farmers

Chapter two focuses on the first farmers and agriculture. Agriculture started 12,000 years ago. Agriculture helps are meat and vegetbales to keep the people healthy. Without agriculture life would be hard for me because I'm not good at hunting. They were lucky to have farming because spme places didn't. The places that didn't had to rely on animals. I love fruit and vegetbales and appreciate agriculture. The Americans didn't have much supply on cereal grains, instead they had corn from Mexico.
The picture on pg 49 caught my attention. It shows how important it is to take care of and raise the animals. The animals were used for meat, pulling power, transportation and manure. Horses and bulls were important animals.

WATER Please!

Man those people use to waste a lot of water. That's crazy because many people are in need of clean drinking water. In the Ancien World water was used for flooding and waterworks for weapons. Water is one of the main surving tools. The Egyptians also used water- lifting machines for irrigation. I wasn't that interested in this.

Prologue/ First Peoples

Wow i didn't know the first  people that lived on earth was 250,00 years ago. I also didn't know those places were southern and eastern Africa. Back then instead of school the humans taught themselves how to make stuff and survive. They liked going hunting and fishing a lot. The kind of weapons they used were blades and also did things with stones. Even though that was a really long time ago the humans had rules. Some of there rules are the same rules being followed today. For example, adultery and incest.Gross!

I think I would enjoy spending a couple weeks with the Sans people. I bet living a stress free life is the best. Everything is equal and theres peace. Another thing that caught my attention is how they loved beads just like me!!

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