Thursday Lecture – Cereal Grains Reading: Textbook‚ Chapter 5 The topic of class for this week will be members of the grass family‚ which as cereal crops provide more than half of all calories that humans consume. Members of the family are used in many other ways by people‚ including as forage grasses for livestock. 1 What is a Cereal? Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture (in Greek‚ Demeter). Myth: mother of Persephone‚ who was kidnapped by Hades; Ceres went on strike to demand
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growth and village expansion + increased trade and job specialization It was so flat it was as open to invasion Fertile Crescent Between the northern hills and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula‚ running from the eastern Mediterranean coast to the plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Tigris and Euphrates River The river overflows Sumer’s banks in the spring‚ depositing fertile soil when they recede Sumerians Migrated from the north to Sumer in 4000 B.C.E. Developed centers of religion‚ pilgrimage
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the Taurus Mountains to the north‚ the Karadag Mountains to the east‚ the Harran plain to the south‚ the sightline finally being broken only by the crags that hide the Euphrates river valley to the west. It lies at the northernmost tip of the Fertile Crescent‚ which is said to be the cradle of civilization. The entire site is spread over 22 acres of plateau‚
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Teachers are given the opportunity to instruct their students using various methods. The methods that teachers use can use will depend on several factors‚ such as what is needed for the curriculum and who the audience is. In order for teachers to be effective in their classrooms‚ it is important that practical and effective textbooks are available. This paper will discuss three methods that can be used to measure the reliability of a tenth grade history textbook. The methods that will be discussed
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Chapter 1 Reading Guide From Human Prehistory to the Early River Valley Civilizations DIRECTIONS: Read Chapter 1: From Human Prehistory to the Early River Valley Civilizations DIRECTIONS: Define the following vocabulary terms. Paleolithic Age: The Old Stone Age ending in 12‚000 b.c.e.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. Neolithic Age: The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 b.c.e.; period in which adaption of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication
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There have been many important revolutions throughout history‚ but the most important revolution in our human history is the Agricultural Revolution. The Agricultural Revolution marked an important turning point in history because it was the beginning of more populated societies‚ hierarchies of class‚ provided the foundation for language and literature‚ and allowed for the invention of new technologies. The Agriculture Revolution was a very important time because of the rapid growth of population
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Is The Rest Of The World ’Crazy Like Us’?by ETHAN WATTERS Author Ethan Watters thinks that America is "homogenizing the way the world goes mad." In Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche‚ he describes how American definitions and treatments of mental illness have spread to other cultures around the world. "[McDonald’s] golden arches do not represent our most troubling impact on other cultures‚" Watters writes. "Rather‚ it is how we are flattening the landscape of the human psyche
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A History of Clothing Long long ago‚ in a time very different from the one today‚ two cavemen‚ Borg and Org‚ were out looking for something tasty to eat. They had just realized that they could use a rock-sharpened stick to help kill the wild game that roamed their forest home. They were now in for another invention. As they trekked through the wilderness‚ they did not find their way to grandma’s house‚ no‚ they got hopelessly lost‚ with no GPS to call upon they settled in a pleasant clearing
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The Fertile Crescent‚ the area spanning from the iran-iraq border Lebanon‚ Israel‚ Jordan and turkey (McKay‚ p.16) and was believed to be the home of some of the earliest civilizations in known history (McKay‚ p.34).Out of these civilizations‚ the city of Uruk is considered one of the most important civilizations in Mesopotamia at the time (Mark‚ Definition). Believed to have been founded by the king Enmerkar sometime around 4500 BCE (Mark‚ Definition)‚ this great city was a pioneer for many things
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Civilizations have been the bedrock all human achievement‚ with their history often originating from the will of one single individual and the collective cooperation of several groups. Civilization’s primary merits has been its stability and protection for its citizens allowing for advancements in technology‚ art‚ mathematics and philosophy. Over the course of history‚ many groups formed their own distinct civilizations and determined how the landscape of humanity would be carved out. The overall
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