My Participation score

Well now that I know that I'm not the 75 % or 60 % ..I'm all good. I think i should get an 83%  or 85%. I know I have talked but I did pay attention. I had a lot of fun interesting conversation about awesome topics.

Notes!

-Jared Diamond- PhD in Human Physiology
- some civilizations have advanced
- all great civilizations have these things in common : advanced technology, large populations, and well organized work force.
- Drah is the oldest village
- its a 11 1/2 thousands years old
- Granery- place to store grain and food
- First farmers in the world- people set up there site and plant near the river
-Domestication- the way crops finding it planting ,storing, planting

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is an American scientist, author, anthropologist, and teacher. He is from Boston, Massachusetts. He went to Harvard College.  He has written many books including "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" which was his 3rd book but most popular out of all of them. He specializes in the Gall Bladder.  He’s made many trips to New Guinea.  He currently teaches at UCLA. In 2008, he wrote an article for The New Yorker. Two men that were stated in the article a year later sued Diamond for 10 million dollars. 

"Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" is a book written by Jared Diamond.  It was published in 1997. It’s won a Pulitzer award and the prize for best science. In 2005, a National Geographic special on aired on the book. In the book, he discusses why on different continents history has been discovered and told differently.  He talks about Eurasia and the different agricultural advantages it has. One of them is grain in which it can be stored for a long period of time so it can be used and bought more.  He has sold millions of copies worldwide. 

December 6,2012

Today in class, we watched the 3rd part to our video. Its called The Peoples Capitalism of China. During the video, the computer we were watching it on kept playing ads in the background.  Then we switched to someone else computer so that's good. No wonder a lot of people are mad about how our products we buy are made in China.!!! This video has taught be a lot about China's economy. 

Definitions

 Capitalism- a economic and political system, characterized by private corporate ownership of capital goods 

Communism- a revolutionary socialist movement to create a class less and stateless social order 

free enterprise- a system with few restrictions are placed on ownership and business activities. 


free market- a economic system where prices and wages are determined by the companies, not regulated by the government. 

November 26, 2012

Today in Human Geo we got our tests back. I didn't do as well as i thought i would. I will try harder for the next test. We also started watching a movie on economy and are taking notes in our notebooks. We have 3 more full weeks of school left and then we have mid terms and then Christmas break! I need to start studying Human Geo so i can get an A on this Mid- Term !!!

Country's 2

Afghanistan

Declared independence on August 19, 1919.

They declared independence from Britain after the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919. The British fought three wars with Afghanistan. The first was fought in 1839-1842 and led to the massacre of the whole British force in Jalalabad. The second one was in 1878-1880 and the British won bringing  the Afghan rebellion to an end. The third in 1919 led to the independence clebrated every year throughout all of Afghanistan.


Brazil
Declared independence on September 7, 1822.

On September 2, 1822 a new decree with Lisbon’s demands arrived in Rio de Janeiro. Princess Matia Leopoldina met with the Council of Ministers and decided to send a letter to her husband telling him to proclaim Brazil’s independence. The letter reached the Prince on Septermber 7, 1822 and 322 years of colonial dominance of Portugal over Brazil ended.

France
Declared independence on July 14, 1790.

On July 11 the people of Paris stormed the Bastile, a prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet. Shortly after the storming of the Bastile, on August 4 feudalism was abolished and on August 26, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed.

Germany
Declared independence on October 3, 1990.

Into the 1980’s, the Soviet Union experienced a period of economic and political stagnatoin, and they correspondingly decreased intervention in Eastern Bloc Politics.


India
Declared independence on August 15, 1947.

India attained freedom fdue to an independence movement for large peaceful nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress.   Iran- Iran achieved independence on October 24, 1979. Before Iran was independent it was called Persia.