Book Report = The Ancient Mesopotamians

The Mesopotamian were the first civilization that we know of. How was it possible? The cradle of civilization, two convenient rivers, like the Nile, that would flood and let the make the crops grow, which would otherwise be a bleak desert.. The names of the rivers were Tigris and Euphrates. The Mesopotamian culture depended on these two water sources to make the beautiful farming land that was needed. With the water, they were able to begin storing up food and water until there wasn't any worry of having to move. Building solid houses and capturing and penning animals made them the first civilization.

The Mesoptamians had a large culture, and had lots of stories. The most well known is the Epic of Gilgamesh, and plenty of other stories. They would carve down on stones stories that would otherwise be still carried on words or, worse, gone! Fortunately, with them having enough time to settle down and carve stuff, they 'wrote' it down for fun, giving us the story of The Epic of Gilgamesh. They also wrote down other stories, such as When On High, The Rebellion of the Gods, and the Great Flood.

(From 4/28/15)

History: The Death of Dinosaurs

The comet that wiped out the dinosaurs, Chicxulub, was arguably the greatest thing that happened for Humanity, because, well, we're selfish and a entire race getting wiped out is cool as long as we aren't it. However, thanks to a article from the Smithsonian Magazine, I (And you) can now understand more about this interesting phenomenon. However, I'm not going to talk much about the info in the article, because I'm sightly tired. Ok, maybe I'll talk a little.

Anyways, it was like a miniature Armageddon, with tsunamis, large rocks, and immense amount of heat. Large waves wiped out entire colonies of animals, and the comet itself dealt a large blow. Within 10 hours, destruction was reaching almost the entire world. You can find a 1/10 inch layer of the debris all around the world. I'm not joking. Within the year, 0 sunlight would be hitting the surface. Anything not underwater or underground would be dead.

Anyways, you read it your self. I'm lazy. See you.

Adventure Van, out.

History 2

Charlemagne was the leader of the Franks,
He tried to conquer Italy.
 Quick hint: His name was Charles!

The Maya calendar was 100,000,000 years old!
And it wants us to party! 
Quick hint: YAYYYYYYYYYY

Did you know that some people
had statues guarding their tomb?

Also, England once had 47% of the population
In the urbans!

There is a area named "Fort Ancient!"

Linshin was a Chinese Emperor because he killed all his brothers and forced his dad to let him to be emperor in 626. But he was assassinated in the year 646. (:o They both have 6_6 in them!) He lived to be 32 years old.

Silla is Chinese for Kings gold.

Conquisto(a city) was sieged by the Russians.

AZTECS ARE CRAZY. period.  When they are not killing others they kill themselves.

Vikings are crazy, but still are better than Aztecs, Because they don't kill themselves.

The Franks are crazy, because in order to become king, they have to kill all their brothers.So what happens when they all die? If you ever saw the movie Stardust you might know.

China invented Printing. They made a book with it!

The richest piece in the world is the Alfred Jewel.

Vikings attack Christians in Ireland.

Shinto is china's oldest religion!

Asia invented cannons!

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If you had slaves and wanted beer, England is the place to go.

China also invented how to move the letters around.

Japan wrote a book about architecture.

I love the crusades! It was a really foolish time period about when people killed each other over religion. They were: the Christians: Half of which didn't survive the walk. VS. The Muslims: who were RIGHT NEXT TO THEIR CAPITAL!!! Note to all army's,Either get tough or get away from a capital of a country.The Christians lost, because 3/4 of the army DIDN'T not make it. The Jews, were living fine.

Genghis Khan was not a barbarian, as some may say. He was very civilized, actually. Here is one of the things he would do: If he was in peace, he would hang white horse tails of his tent. If he was at war, he would hangs black ones. He had lots of rules, so don't know why  people say he was none civilized. He was very civilized, he just had some rules that were "bad".

History Q.P.

This here blogs is going to be all about  the American Civil War! No, not the war itself, but it's effects on the landscape and manufacturing ability. No blood and gore on this channel folks! Anyway, some topics I'm going to touch on: Air Conditioners! Steam and Steel! Rat holes! Wait??? What? You'll learn all about it! Now to the next paragraph!

After the civil war, a large amount of farms and buildings had been destroyed by the north, minimizing what already low housing and and food supplies to a bare nothingness. This made the south dependent on the north, making it the manufacturing area of food and supplies. And, until  a amazing invention made in 1902, something we will get to later, they stayed. A lot of power went into making steel, and making steel used coal and steam, thus giving this paragraph the name Steam and Steel.

And speaking of steam, it was unbearable until 1902, when a buffalo citizen by name of Willis Carrier made the air conditioners! The air conditioner was a invention that let the south begin producing more items and also let them get more population. This population growth led to the need of water, but that's another blog.

And that's a slightly short blog. But two in one day isn't bad!

QP #The Iceman/ Otzi#

The Iceman was found by two climbers, Erika and Helmut Simon, on the alps. He was found in a glacier that had moved to be inside the border of Italy. It is still unknown where the body originated. However, thanks to carbon dating, it is around 5300 years old, the oldest human body found! He had with him a dagger, fur hat, a shoe, birch bark containers, ax, cape, and a bow and quiver. It was, however, very disgusting (see bottom), and it was crudely removed. However, it has brought much evidence. It is a important science stepping stone into seeing what we did such a long time ago.


I found all this in DISCOVERING THE ICEMAN, a book by Shelly Tanaka. It is a good book  and if you enjoy this blog post you might want to get it.

Meet Otzi.

The Diary of Anne Frank Book Report

The Diary of Anne Frank was a moving story about a young girl and her family and friends who were Jewish during WWII, and her life in the Secret Annexe. It was written by Anne Frank (duh), had 283  pages, and was printed in 1963. It was a non-fiction book and was published by Bantam Books, and had the copyright of 1952 by her father, Otto Frank.

Anne was a ordinary girl who was ten when the Nazi group was formed, and she had gotten a diary on her tenth birthday, during which she began recording the items that were being taken away from the Jews. After  a while she was annoyed and surprised to find out that they were moving to the Secret Annexe. As she was going to be living there for a while, she got used to it. She was in there with her sister, parents, parent's friends, their child, and the dentist. It was a tad crowded, as Anne usually noted.

She usually got into arguments with her mother, and almost every one who was an adult, not including daddy. She also got into fights with her sister once in a while, but it was very short and almost immediately apologized. She never got into fights with Peter, who she got along fine with, as 'he was like me in almost every way'.

The diary of Anne Frank  was a good book, and should be read by most everyone. It does prove of some of the horrors of living cramped with a group of people, as well as the concentration camps. You should read it if you like WWII stuff.

Book Report: The Underground Railroad

A bunch of books have been  wrote about it, so i cant post a exact link, but its in here somewhere!:http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/underground-railroad.

So this is about black people escaping escaping their owner. And in order to do that,  they needed to get help, so this is when the Underground Railroad came in. BUT IT WASN'T UNDERGROUND OR A RAILROAD! So don't ask me why they called it that.Or better yet, DO! It was called Underground because the slave catchers couldn't catch the ones on the Underground Railroad. And it was called a railroad because it had 'passengers','cargo','conductors','tracks',''stations', and 'coal'. 'Passenger' and 'cargo' meant the Negroes. 'Conductors' were people who guided the 'cargo'. 'Tracks' were where they had to follow.'Stations' were people who sheltered the 'cargo'.

Many great people were involved in the Underground Railroad and some like Harriet Tubman were conductors themselves! The people were willing to risk there life for anti slavery, and some even were slaves themselves! A lot of them lived in Canada, but some risked living in the north side of the SA. (Not United Yet!)The slave population was slowly leaving, so the south, angry at the north said that if it didn't get it's slaves back, it was going to cause a war. SO IT DID, the Civil War started! The north won, and the USA was now a slave free country.

Ben franklin:

Middle ages

Shaphur II attacks Divided Rome.
But he fails. Divided Rome survives for another 1000 years.
Flash!: The Holy Roman Empire is around today!

Holy Rome Is still surviving!(At the exact time England started!)
And Holy Rome ATTACKS(!!!!) England!
Quick hint: They fail.

Visigoths(Barbarians) have been forced to accept a evil treaty.
But I don't feel sorry! Why?:
Quick hint:   Visigoths Attacked Rome!

Slavs were a Magor tribe...
...Being one of the only left!
Slavs were a slave trading tribe.
Funny!: The Slavs - s + e + s = Slaves!

Constantinople was a very Important city for Byzantine!
It was one because it was the emperor's base!
Quick hint:  Constantinople was called "the City"!

Greenland Isn't Green!
But its fortunate for us! Why?
Quick hint: Vineland (Us) was thought as a lie, too.So we were populated by the English instead!

Gold = Sun?
That what some of the African tribes thought!
Quick hint:Gold was PRAYED TO!

The English proved themselves smart...
Take the short route, and leave them to the crazy.
Quick hint:  Arizona attacked Muslims!

History Blog

Hephaestus was my favorite god.He was the most the most skillful of gods.
I also liked Hermes.He was a trickster! He could steal everything!
I found these Gods and a lot more in A Pocket Dictionary of Greek and Romans Gods and Goddesses Richard Woff

Q:You know the city that was buried in ash?  A:Pompeii
Q: How about the dueling(double handed) gladiator?   A: Marcus
Q:Where do I get the Info? A: Magic tree house research guide Ancient Rome and Pompeii By Mary pope Osborne

  March,Fight,March,Fight,March,Fight,March,And Fight Some More!
When Alexander the Great is in town, You better get out!"You wouldn't want to be in Alexander the Great's army!" Gives a detailed life with Alexander ('s Army). By Jacqueline Morely 

Alexander the Great is the Greatest general in all time. The Egyptian knew it, and they survived.
Babylons Didn't, And they died by the billions! Well, most did. Wikipedia link for him: Alexander the Great is awesome!!!!:D 

I had roman pizza! 
Did you know: the Romans didn't have TOMATOES!!!!!(No pizza sauce.)
But I didn't dislike it!
We made the cheese! Like they would have.
We put on olives.

Did you know that if Christians (No offense) didn't burn down the Library of Alexandria WE would be more advanced?
They had plans for a STEAM ENGINE in there!
If they didn't burn it down, we would have been where we are 100 years ago!

I also did another (Edible) project: The Candy China! I was wondering why the wall (bricks) didn't cover the whole thing.I now know why. Mountains, and the wall wasn't edible.

Candy China!

Barbarians + Rome = Rome (Trembling)
End of the Hisung Dynasty + Rome (Trembling) =  Rome (Falling)
F***ing more Barbarians + Rome (Falling) =  Rome(Fallen)
Rome(Fallen) + Colorful words = BARBARIANS SO FUDGING SUCK!       
Here's one Barbarian (Kinda) general:

                                                          
And the Roman report (By Bob Hale)

Thanks!
Next Big one: Science!!!

The First Thanksgiving

The Turkey May Have not been Part of it!
The Pilgrims heavily needed the Indians, But before Jacks war.
We Celebrated the harvest then.
President Lincoln Made it offical.
And....
Where am I going?
Whoops.
The first thanksgiving is the book I learned this from.
It was by Andrew Santella.
The book's Highest point was...Everything!
I think you should read it.