Human Geo

Great semester, see you in the halls.

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They must be social animals and they must get along with humans.
Zebras are to nervous
Of those really useful animals, none of them are from Papa new guinea, Africa, or Australia.
Of the 14 animals named, a lama is the only 1 in South America. the others are North Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Cows pigs and goats are all from the middle east
The people who lived in the fertile crescent were geographically lucky
Steel was a technology that would change the world.
places like New Guinea have never developed technology because food was hard to get and it took a long time to gather. if you have the same lines of latitude days will be the same along with crops and weather.
 

Problems

in the beginning of class we had a bit of technology problems. the movie wouldn't start up for about 15 mins. so i only got a page of notes.

China grows rice, America grows corn, beans and squash.

the ideal domesticated animal is one that is able to breed at at a very young age, say 1-3 and they must also be plant eating animals so that you don't have to raise other animals in order to feed it.
an ideal animal is one that can help a society to get moving. their traits would consist of 2 major factors strength and weight; the animal should be fairly strong and over 100 pounds. these animals might be like goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels, water buffalo, lamas, reindeer, yacks, mithan, and bali cattle.

Drah'

Jared Diamond in Papua new guinea

"why do white men have so much cargo and we have so little?"
Cargo is imports and exports

White people saw themselves as genetically superior

Great civilations have had these 3 things in common
- advanced tecnology
- large population of people
- well organized work force

sago can be broken down and made into dough and they hold a lot of food

Barley and wheat were foods able to pick in the middle east and they had a huge impact

Drah was believed to be the oldest permanent settlement or village ever recorded

Granary is a place to store grain and the first one was found in the village of Drah

domestication is the process of changing food

ancient rome

About 10,000 years ago people started living in agricultural villages.

2 components allowed the formation of cities to happen
- social stratification
- an agricultural surplus

Mesopotamia - 3500 BCE
Nile River Valley - 3200 BCE
Indus River Valley - 2200 BCE
Huang He and Wei River Vally -  1500 BCE
Mesoamerica - 200 BCE

Mayan and Aztec civilizations -
Many ancient cities were theocratic centers where rulers were known to have divine authority and were god kings.

by 500 BCE, Greeks were highly urbanized
- network of more than 500 cities and towns
- on the mainland and on islands
- each city had an acropolis and an agora

the roman cities
A system of cities and small towns linked together with hundreds of miles of roads and sea routs.
- sites of roman cities were typically for trade
- a roman cities forum combine the acropolis
- roman cities had extreme wealth and extreme poverty

What I learned in class today is...

People wanted to live in cities because everything is closer together and easy to access.

The city of Shenzhen, China became urbanized quite quickly in the modern world, to think that less than 25 years ago, Shenzhen was all duck ponds and rice patties.

Urban - In or near a city

Rural - Farmish further from a city

Before urbanization, people often clustered in agricultural villages - a relatively small egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture, and hunting and gathering.

Study time

im studying in the library. when i get home im gonna study at home. wish me luck.

Exams

the exams should all be pretty easy. i will study for em' all.

in class we went over what to study for the exams. and i should basically study everything we learned since the class first started. wish me luck.

The same old blog...

Im getting pretty tired of writing theses blogs... in class today we reviewed the test and i only got 1 wrong... the mosquito one.. :(  i just dont remember going over that. class was so boring all we did was talk about Nelson Mandela. He was in prison for 27 years and when he got out he forgave them than became best friends with his personal guard. what a goon.

Test

we had a test and i got a 93% raising my grade from an 82 to an 85 a solid 3 point difference!
welp, I think that the human geo exam will  be the most difficult exam. and i will need to study
but i will need to study for all the exams

and i hope school is out on monday, i really do.

Study Guide

Microfinance - a form of financial services for entrepreneurs and small buisnesses lacking access to banking and related services

Microloan - a small loan given to individuals who may not have access to these typical bank services usually to start or expand a small buisness

Kiva is the biggest lending group in the world they have lent 498,939,550 in loan form there repay rate is 99.1%

Who recieves microloans? people trying to kickstart a small buisness, students wanting a further education, teachers to buy more desks or supplies, disease drought, generators refrigerator.

Problems with microloans high intrest rate someimes as high as 23% it cost more to be poor because of the intreast's

microloans are a help not a cure

Malaria = bad air its a mosquito born disease and it has no vaccine. it kills around 665,000 Bill and Malinda Gates founded microsoft and he is the number one supplier of mosquito nets. he has given away 28 billion dollars (1/3 of his profit)

Questions

1. what is malaria - its a deadly disease
2. what is the main cause of malaria - mosquito carry the deadly disease and they infect you with their painless sting
3. who makes the world wide mosquito net - Bill and Malinda gates
4. why dont banks give loans to poor people very often - because they will have a hard time paying it back and its just too risky
5. What is microfianace - it is a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services
6. what can micro loans help with in undeveloped countries - clean water, drought, disease
7. why is quia helpful - it lets regular people make loans instead of the banks that wont loan to the poor
8. how many death per year does malaria cause - around 655,000
9. what is a micro loan - a small amount of money usually used to kickstart a small buisness
10. is there a vaccine for malaria - No

America

First we go over how sucky disney is.. lol

a kickstart starts something large. a loan. you take a small bit of money from the bank buy some stuff and start a buisness. a microloan. helps to kickstart a buisness.

helps small buisness start and stay running and it helps the local economy. for example buying land, livestock, tools... and all it takes is a small loan

poor people are least likely to be helped by a bank cause there risky and they may not return the  money. so there stuck. they cant start a buisness and they cant get a loan.

for poor countries loans can help with disease, clean water ect.

um ew mosquito are nasty little scavengers.

well.....

we pretty much did nothing the whole class. it was boring. i should have wrote this blog in class while every one was talking about the variety show.

Sub

on friday in class there was a sub and we didnt do much at all.... We played the same game we played the day before and i wish mr. schick was there :(

bob dylan

today in class we were showed a video on bob dylan and it was crazy how we could flip through channels and they would all be mouthing the bob dylan song. teconology has come a long way. also, mr schick brought in a real grammy award and the man whom it belonged to didnt even know he had it. haha we played a game and we got to save a small african country. haha it was confusing!

so how was class?

in class today, went over corrections for the test witch i did actually okay on knowing everyone else's grades on it. i got a 74%. but we didnt get to finish going over the test and i think that class today was boring. haha =) hopefully i will have better notes for the next test.

test

i am pretty eager to see what i got on my test and i think we will get it tommorrow. i think i got maybe a C' i don't know we'll see in class we didn't really do much but sit there while a couple of people took tests. #boring

mapzzzzzz

Afghanastan brazilchina and india
france
germany
iran
israel Shimon Peres is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel
mexico
saudi arabia
united kingdom
venezuela

done...

study

Study where the following countries are on a map…

-        Afghanistan Karzi he warned us about attacks of 9/11 he doesn’t own any land or property he worked to over throw the government

-        Brazil Dilma Rouseff federal republic divorced a couple of times has been tortured strong background in economics.

-        China president Xi Jingping communist state married an army general/folk singer sending their daughter to Harvard University

-        Francois Hollande had a very political childhood and leading the country is his first big thing

-        Angela Merkel has been chancellor since November 2005 most powerful women in the world for 8 of the past 10 years.

-        India is a federal republic headed by Mukherjee he was a political scientist and a journalist. 15 years ago he was the best parliament.

-        Iran is scaring the hell out of all the other countries because he is trying to make an atom bomb and it is scary but the leader is a happy jolly man he looks like an Arab Santa

-        Israel is surrounded by countries that don’t like them and their military is very strict. America supplies them with a load of weapons to test/defend themselves

-        Shimon Peres

-        México Enrique Pena Pieto has promised to clean up México and the people really love him and his wife and he could easily be around for a long time he is still young

-        Saudi Arabia Abdallah has fathered 22 children and he is worth 21 billion dollars like how tf… oh plus he is about to die to he is an old crusty dude

-        The united kingdom Cameron, (Cameron bikes to work every day <3) also he had his bike stolen a few times lmao! and Queen Elizabeth and the queen is in good health and when she dies prince Charles will be the king the queen has ruled for 60 years and counting…..

-        Venezuela is a federal republic headed by Nickolas Moros and the guy who led before him hated the US and wanted to have a fist fight with bush and Nickolas used to be a bus driver and was successful at throwing the government.