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15 Questions on Geographical Luck

• Jared Diamond
• Papa NeGueana
• He went there becuase he was a Bird watcher
• He found that there were people there still living th ehunter and gather life
• The people in Papa NeGuena ate sago/ it did t have protien and vitimines and nutrients/ took so much work to get but you could not store it
• Geographical Luck
• if you dont have to use all your time looing and making food then you would have time to specialize in other activitie

• Mesopotamia was the first civilization/ It is now the middle eas
• they had good crops/ they good grow wheat
• Sumarians were the first people in Mesopotamia 
• Cunieforn was there way of writing
• Egyptians wrote in heiroglypohs 
• Back then people tended to stay on the same latitude so the same animals and crops could grow
• Places on the same latitude will have the same conditions and times of day
• 14  DOmesticated Animal\
• Zebra is a bad DOMESTICATED ANIMAL
• A GOOD one is the HORSE
• irrigation is when you move water in order to grow crops
• The code of  Hammurabi  were  the first laws

• Pre history is the time when things were not written down
• History started when people started keeping track of things by writting things down

Egypt 10 questions

• life centered around the Nile river
• so much of it is a desert
• the river flows south to north
• it flows this way because there is higher elevation in the south
• the area where it hits the mediteranean sea is called the delta
• the delta water has silt which is great fertile soil
• the kings of Eygpt were know as Pharaohs
• they built pyramids
• pyramids were used as tombs
• The Great pyramid of Guiza and the Spinx were built  2500 BC
• slaves helped with the household duties and helped the white kilt class
• social classe:
• slaves and servants
• farmers
• artisans and merchants
• soldiers
• high priests/ nobility
• Pharaoh 
• GREECE
• before they had a democracy they had a monarchy
• Descrube the difference between Spartans and the Athenians******* ESSAY QUESTION
• Sparta when you were a boy when you were 7 you had to go to a camp and be trained
• In athens you did not get taken from your home to fight so young/ you didnt get started till you were 14
• Spartans had a land based army and the Athenians had a really hard navy/built ships called tririmes
• Spartian woman had high status becuase the men were always gone and the Athenian woman could not vote and do naything that the men could
• Spattains thought as a group and Athenians thought as individuals
• The patron saint of Athens is athena / you would find a big statue sof athena i nthe parthonon/ the leader of building this is Pericles
• During the age of Pericles this is when Athens had its golden age
• The delian league was a bunch of city states  ut with athens i charge
• Pericles ruined it all ny fighting sparta in the Polypenesian war
• Athens all went inside a wall 
• Greeks inventited the Olympics in 776 BC
• Athenians invented theaters and watched entertainment
• Homerwrote the Illiat and the Odyssey/ Illiat was about the trojan war and the Odyssey is about a man named Oddisius who tries to return home to his wife and son after the trojan war
• Arete is the term that in whatever you do you do it with excellence 
• term were you are so proud of yourslef and you feel you can do no wrong is called hubris
• What was the play were the man killed his father and slept ith his mother= Oedipus Rex
• Oracles could apparentyl see the futute the oracle of delphie is the most famous
• Themisticales wanted to spend money on building tririmes