Agnes Yu
World History Period 7
11/3/14
Thoughts and Reflections on: Caste
Source of the article: Arrow of the Blue Skinned God
Big questions: How the caste system both unify and divide India? What is the Caste System? How
did it get to India? What purpose does it serve? Why does it still exist?
Caste unifies India in some way, Indians people believe that if they try their best to do everything
that they need to do in the country, the behaviors are proper, also, they always being a good citizen,
in their next life they will have a better class . This unifies them to have the same determination to
have nice next life. But what divides them is the level, too,the lowest class people and the highest
ones are both untouchable, they would never have any contact with each other. And there's caste
discrimination which makes people feel not equal.
The caste system is something that is like hierarchy, everyone in India borns with a class level, and
it will stay with the people for the rest of their lives and even though you are in the lowest class you
couldn't complain. One reason for caste to come into India because of the religion, people believed in
gods. Caste is for dividing people in different class level and require them to do the things that they
meant to do. And they banned the marriages from outside the caste. Caste is still exist today, because
it's still for marriages and some of the Indians people nowadays are still find brides which have
proper caste. Even though is more free now, indians still believe in if you do the best now and you
will have a better life when you reborn.
2014年11月3日星期一
2014年10月30日星期四
Digital Scrapbook Entry #3 – Mesopotamia
Agnes Yu
World History 1 Period 7
10/30/14
Compare Mesopotamian's writing system to modern times technology.
Link 1: Advantages of Mesopotamia's writing system.
http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/connections/class/ancient/mesopwriting.htm
Link 2: Modern times writing technology.(Advantages of Email)
1)http://www.ask.com/technology/benefits-email-8a28f0b6f5b44d99
2)http://www.ehow.com/info_10034614_email-better-letters.html
Mesopotamia is one of the greatest civilizations in this world, it has invented and created so many
things that we are still use them as part of our life in the modern times. For example, the hammurabi
code is kinda like our laws today, we use them to judge something and make justice decisions and the
Mesopotamians use them for those reasons, too, but it was in some cruel ways. Also, in
Mesopotamia, people drank beer and use beer as payment and other things as well, beer was so
important for Mesopotamians and nowadays it's also an important way that brings people together for
socialized. But what I want to talk about is one of the best inventions in the world --- Writing.
Over five thousand years ago, people who lived in Mesopotamia developed a form of writing and
used it to record different types of information and also used them for communicating. The earliest
writing was also base on pictograms, pictograms was a way to record basic information such as taxes,
people used reeds to write things down. And then cuneiform appeared and took place of pictograms,
it's one of the oldest writing in the world. In Mesopotamia, it has a great literature which called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Writing has been used for centuries and centuries, it's so important in our life and we could do nothing without the skill of writing. It provides large amount of information for us, it helps us to
write and record lots of information about history, if we have no writing system, we wouldn't know so
much things about ancient time period. You can see how essential is the form of writing. And with
the development of writing, we have different languages, cultures and different types of writing
systems. We put all of them together and create this diverse world. And with the great development
of technology, we soon have email and text functions in our daily life, and these things actually are
part of the expand of writing and it soon starts replace writing and became really useful in some ways.
In 21 centuries, technology has controlled our life and we rely on it. Email is a great example that
shows why technology is important. It's so much different from writing, when we want to send mails
to someone, it takes a long time to write a letter and send it to that person, but with Email, it's so
much faster, and you can contact with anyone you wants as long as they have Email, too. It's easy for
you to lose a letter but it's hard for you to lose an Email. In addition, Email is very secure .Also, it's
even FREE and you don't even go to the mailbox to get them.
Last but not least. Why I said that Email is come from writing is because if people don't understand
how to spell and know the meaning they couldn't create the system of computer system of writing and
we wouldn't have Email. So in my point of view, if we don't have Sumerians developed the writing,
we won't have so many easy technology today. In an easy way to say, I think both writing skill and
technology's conveniences are important and necessary'
World History 1 Period 7
10/30/14
Compare Mesopotamian's writing system to modern times technology.
Link 1: Advantages of Mesopotamia's writing system.
http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/connections/class/ancient/mesopwriting.htm
Link 2: Modern times writing technology.(Advantages of Email)
1)http://www.ask.com/technology/benefits-email-8a28f0b6f5b44d99
2)http://www.ehow.com/info_10034614_email-better-letters.html
Mesopotamia is one of the greatest civilizations in this world, it has invented and created so many
things that we are still use them as part of our life in the modern times. For example, the hammurabi
code is kinda like our laws today, we use them to judge something and make justice decisions and the
Mesopotamians use them for those reasons, too, but it was in some cruel ways. Also, in
Mesopotamia, people drank beer and use beer as payment and other things as well, beer was so
important for Mesopotamians and nowadays it's also an important way that brings people together for
socialized. But what I want to talk about is one of the best inventions in the world --- Writing.
Over five thousand years ago, people who lived in Mesopotamia developed a form of writing and
used it to record different types of information and also used them for communicating. The earliest
writing was also base on pictograms, pictograms was a way to record basic information such as taxes,
people used reeds to write things down. And then cuneiform appeared and took place of pictograms,
it's one of the oldest writing in the world. In Mesopotamia, it has a great literature which called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Writing has been used for centuries and centuries, it's so important in our life and we could do nothing without the skill of writing. It provides large amount of information for us, it helps us to
write and record lots of information about history, if we have no writing system, we wouldn't know so
much things about ancient time period. You can see how essential is the form of writing. And with
the development of writing, we have different languages, cultures and different types of writing
systems. We put all of them together and create this diverse world. And with the great development
of technology, we soon have email and text functions in our daily life, and these things actually are
part of the expand of writing and it soon starts replace writing and became really useful in some ways.
In 21 centuries, technology has controlled our life and we rely on it. Email is a great example that
shows why technology is important. It's so much different from writing, when we want to send mails
to someone, it takes a long time to write a letter and send it to that person, but with Email, it's so
much faster, and you can contact with anyone you wants as long as they have Email, too. It's easy for
you to lose a letter but it's hard for you to lose an Email. In addition, Email is very secure .Also, it's
even FREE and you don't even go to the mailbox to get them.
Last but not least. Why I said that Email is come from writing is because if people don't understand
how to spell and know the meaning they couldn't create the system of computer system of writing and
we wouldn't have Email. So in my point of view, if we don't have Sumerians developed the writing,
we won't have so many easy technology today. In an easy way to say, I think both writing skill and
technology's conveniences are important and necessary'
2014年10月22日星期三
Ancient History - Ancient Egyptian - Sarcophagus Drawing Project
Period 7 WorldHistory
Agnes Yu
2014.10.23
Sarcophagus
My Egypt name
My thumbnail sketches
Short paragraph about this project
This time we did an ancient Egypt project which is a sarcophagus and this would help us to know
further about Egypt. This sarcophagus will help my afterlife, as you can see, in my sarcophagus, it
has a lot of Chinese elements, they are the symbols of me and they protect me in some ways and I
show respects to them. For example, the ''Tai Ji'' symbol means everything is equal in this world, in
addition, the red Chinese knotting means peaceful and happiness. With joy and egality, life will be
really happy and successful.
I think Egyptians really care about life and death and they believe that death after life is eternal.
Egyptians think that death is the thing that everyone meant to go through and they believed in life
after death, so if one person died, their families will burry them in something with everything that the
person once used when they were alive. They believed that people will start a new life after death
and you may go to heaven but it depends on how many good things that you've done. So I think
Egyptians treated death really serious.
2014年10月13日星期一
Thoughts and Reflections on A Light That Did Not Fail
Agnes Yu Period 7 10/12/14
Thoughts and Reflections on: A Light That Did Not Fail.
Source of the article: The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
1) Why was Mesopotamia so ethnically diverse?
As we all know, Mesopotamia was one of the earliest civilizations, it gives huge
perspective to our modern civilization. because it's the land between the Tigris and
Euphrates, people had the idea that use the water from the two rivers, so you can
see how clever they were in the early ancient time, and they were the first to settle
down in cities, thus mesopotamians would have the best site that had good supply
of water and the location would help them better for agriculture and other things.
Mesopotamia was made up of several groups of people such as Sumerians,
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and so on, so you can see how diverse they
were that they separated into different groups. Also, the reasons that show how
great was the civilization is the agriculture and writing, they invented these systems
to help them to do something such as to keep record and Mesopotamians had
different types of record, this is why we have so many information about them now.
And what's cool about it is they even had their own language! Mesopotamia
diverse is not just about those systems, they had their laws and they had to work by
the rules. As a result, Mesopotamia became one of the great civilizations that is
ethnically diverse.
2) What were the basic features and enduring culture values of an ancient
Mesopotamia civilizations?
Mesopotamians had their own language and they invented systems like agriculture
and writing. They even had their laws and they separated into different groups and
each group had their own functions such as Sumerians invented writing. The
civilization was a large way to fix man's place in Nature and society, it tried to avoid
upsetting the precarious balance between Nature and society, you can see how
everything just kinda relates to the Nature and society. All the region's
accomplishments are grouped into a harmonious pattern which develops into the
Mesopotamian way of life.
3) Why did the ancient Mesopotamians build their cities over and over in the
same place?
Because when people started settling down they also started to set the rules and
laws and began to invent systems like writing and agriculture, and as a result, this
place would have its own culture and everything would be more convenient and
the next time when people build cities here again everything would come
much easier and those culture would keep developing.
Thoughts and Reflections on: A Light That Did Not Fail.
Source of the article: The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
1) Why was Mesopotamia so ethnically diverse?
As we all know, Mesopotamia was one of the earliest civilizations, it gives huge
perspective to our modern civilization. because it's the land between the Tigris and
Euphrates, people had the idea that use the water from the two rivers, so you can
see how clever they were in the early ancient time, and they were the first to settle
down in cities, thus mesopotamians would have the best site that had good supply
of water and the location would help them better for agriculture and other things.
Mesopotamia was made up of several groups of people such as Sumerians,
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and so on, so you can see how diverse they
were that they separated into different groups. Also, the reasons that show how
great was the civilization is the agriculture and writing, they invented these systems
to help them to do something such as to keep record and Mesopotamians had
different types of record, this is why we have so many information about them now.
And what's cool about it is they even had their own language! Mesopotamia
diverse is not just about those systems, they had their laws and they had to work by
the rules. As a result, Mesopotamia became one of the great civilizations that is
ethnically diverse.
2) What were the basic features and enduring culture values of an ancient
Mesopotamia civilizations?
Mesopotamians had their own language and they invented systems like agriculture
and writing. They even had their laws and they separated into different groups and
each group had their own functions such as Sumerians invented writing. The
civilization was a large way to fix man's place in Nature and society, it tried to avoid
upsetting the precarious balance between Nature and society, you can see how
everything just kinda relates to the Nature and society. All the region's
accomplishments are grouped into a harmonious pattern which develops into the
Mesopotamian way of life.
3) Why did the ancient Mesopotamians build their cities over and over in the
same place?
Because when people started settling down they also started to set the rules and
laws and began to invent systems like writing and agriculture, and as a result, this
place would have its own culture and everything would be more convenient and
the next time when people build cities here again everything would come
much easier and those culture would keep developing.
2014年9月29日星期一
Digital Scrapbook Entry #2 – Agrarian Era
Period 7 World History 1
9/30/14
Agnes
Agrarian Era's Positive Effects to Nowaday's Negative Effects
LINK1 of the article about positive effects:
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/The_positive_effects_of_agriculture/
LINK2 of the article about negative effects:
http://www.trincoll.edu/~cgeiss/tr/tr3/tr_3_p7.pdf
In the era of hunters and gatherers, people always hunted to store food. Not long after this era, neolithic appeared, it's the time that people started to farm and raised animals that make themselves alive. There're good effects of agriculture but there's also bad effects in nowadays, not only affected the environment but also affected the food's quality.
9/30/14
Agnes
Agrarian Era's Positive Effects to Nowaday's Negative Effects
LINK1 of the article about positive effects:
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/The_positive_effects_of_agriculture/
LINK2 of the article about negative effects:
http://www.trincoll.edu/~cgeiss/tr/tr3/tr_3_p7.pdf
In the era of hunters and gatherers, people always hunted to store food. Not long after this era, neolithic appeared, it's the time that people started to farm and raised animals that make themselves alive. There're good effects of agriculture but there's also bad effects in nowadays, not only affected the environment but also affected the food's quality.
(Agrarian era, people farming and keeping animals, those are the resources of their food production)
What good things did agriculture bring for us in the agrarian era?
—People started to have more choices of food, not only meat but also crops and other different
kinds of food.
—It kinda developed the civilization
—People started to have the ideas that create new techniques
—People had more free time
—They were able to support many people and they didn't have to worry about the food supply.
One example is Egypt, it was a really successful civilization.
But besides those good things, with the development of civilization and cities, however, nowadays things started to change, agriculture no longer only brings good aspects but also negative things, for example Genetically modified food, they are not natural, and they have bad effects to the environment, bad for some kinds of insects. One specific example about agriculture brings bad effects is in China, the farmers have less devotion to farming and lands, they feel like is hard to do farming and don't want to take this kind of difficult job. And agriculture can't take the nature disasters.
Last but not least, for thousand of years , agriculture does bring us a lot of beneficial things that make our lives more comfortable and easy, and it's also the basic of our life, but on the other hand, it has negative effects, through the second article I can kinda learn that agriculture has the effect on Carbon Dioxide Emissions which increases the CO2 in the atmosphere. And brings some waterborne Zoonotic Diseases.
For the conclusion, through the information that I've read , I learnt about how agriculture brings both positive and negative effects to human beings and how they develop in human history.
2014年9月23日星期二
Thoughts and Reflections on the experiment.
Agnes Yu. Period 7. 9/24/14
Thoughts and Reflections on the expriement in class.
Today we did an experiment. We had 15 minutes and we need to use the cups, silver paper, tubes and tape to installed an equipment to let the water go through the whole silver paper and run into the cups. We didn't succeed because when the water went through half way of the silver paper，the whole equipment collapsed, and splashed the water and flow them out.
I think what's good about our expriment is we have an interesting idea that we could only use two tubes and cut two holes on one cup, we could insert the two tubes through the holes and the water would run into the cup by going through the tubes, it's easy and simple. But what could be improved is our whole equipment was not stable, the cups under the silver paper that we used to fasten the paper was too loose, we should used more tapes to tight them together. But one reason for us to not did that is we were running out of the time. So we will be faster next time and this is a really fun experiment to let us know how ancient people got the water.
Thoughts and Reflections on the expriement in class.
Today we did an experiment. We had 15 minutes and we need to use the cups, silver paper, tubes and tape to installed an equipment to let the water go through the whole silver paper and run into the cups. We didn't succeed because when the water went through half way of the silver paper，the whole equipment collapsed, and splashed the water and flow them out.
I think what's good about our expriment is we have an interesting idea that we could only use two tubes and cut two holes on one cup, we could insert the two tubes through the holes and the water would run into the cup by going through the tubes, it's easy and simple. But what could be improved is our whole equipment was not stable, the cups under the silver paper that we used to fasten the paper was too loose, we should used more tapes to tight them together. But one reason for us to not did that is we were running out of the time. So we will be faster next time and this is a really fun experiment to let us know how ancient people got the water.
2014年9月21日星期日
Thoughts and Reflections on the Pig Lovers and Pig Haters
Agnes Yu Period 7 9/22/14
Thoughts and Reflections on:
Pig Lovers and Pig Haters
3 Big Questions:
1) What are four explanations (explanations that really don't explain why this is done but are only believed to be true) as to why pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
2) What is the real reason pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
3) How is this an environmental issue?
There were pig lovers and pig haters, even in the modern times those people still exist. Some people believed that pigs are unclean and they are dirtier than any other animals, also, just because that the emperor's physician, people believed that pigs are bad for health and it causes healthy problems. But for the pig lovers, they didn't eat pigs is because that they thought pigs are holy animals and they only sacrifice for the ancestors when they craving for pork. and only can be eaten when there're big events such as marriages.
The writer thinks that what's true about people didn't eat pigs is also because of the religion, some religions believed that pigs are really divine, and they kept pigs to be a member of the family and treated them as human beings. But another reason was pigs are the vectors for human disease because they are unclean, also, they writer thinks that pig farming was a threat to the integrity of the basic cultural and natural ecosystems of the Middle East, while for the semi-sendentary, pigs were more of a threat than an asset. In addition, there's something about the temperature, the higher it is, the dirtier the pigs become, so there's some truth to the theory that the people think pigs are unclean.
How is this an environmental? Between 7,000 and 2,000 B.C. pork became a luxury food, the natural conditions appropriate for pig raising, became increasingly more scarce, thus pork became even more of an economic and ecological luxury, they tasted good but it was too expensive for people to raise them, it coasts a lot more than just about money. Furthermore, the increase in the pig population also accompanied by the increase in the human population. What's more? To feed and raised pigs is also a manpower work, Maring women complained about having a lot of hard works, they needed to plant the garden and feed their families and pigs at the same time, they needed to work much harder, they found themselves feed pigs rather than people, so on the other hand, the growth of the pig population might lead to the ''WAR''(competition) between man and pig.
Thoughts and Reflections on:
Pig Lovers and Pig Haters
3 Big Questions:
1) What are four explanations (explanations that really don't explain why this is done but are only believed to be true) as to why pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
2) What is the real reason pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
3) How is this an environmental issue?
There were pig lovers and pig haters, even in the modern times those people still exist. Some people believed that pigs are unclean and they are dirtier than any other animals, also, just because that the emperor's physician, people believed that pigs are bad for health and it causes healthy problems. But for the pig lovers, they didn't eat pigs is because that they thought pigs are holy animals and they only sacrifice for the ancestors when they craving for pork. and only can be eaten when there're big events such as marriages.
The writer thinks that what's true about people didn't eat pigs is also because of the religion, some religions believed that pigs are really divine, and they kept pigs to be a member of the family and treated them as human beings. But another reason was pigs are the vectors for human disease because they are unclean, also, they writer thinks that pig farming was a threat to the integrity of the basic cultural and natural ecosystems of the Middle East, while for the semi-sendentary, pigs were more of a threat than an asset. In addition, there's something about the temperature, the higher it is, the dirtier the pigs become, so there's some truth to the theory that the people think pigs are unclean.
How is this an environmental? Between 7,000 and 2,000 B.C. pork became a luxury food, the natural conditions appropriate for pig raising, became increasingly more scarce, thus pork became even more of an economic and ecological luxury, they tasted good but it was too expensive for people to raise them, it coasts a lot more than just about money. Furthermore, the increase in the pig population also accompanied by the increase in the human population. What's more? To feed and raised pigs is also a manpower work, Maring women complained about having a lot of hard works, they needed to plant the garden and feed their families and pigs at the same time, they needed to work much harder, they found themselves feed pigs rather than people, so on the other hand, the growth of the pig population might lead to the ''WAR''(competition) between man and pig.
2014年9月18日星期四
Digital Scrapbook Entry#1 — Hunters and Gathers
Period 7 World History 1
9/18/14
Agnes
Hunters and Gathers Population
Compares with Modern Times Population
Link of the article about the Hunters and Gathers Population:
http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/population/pophistorymodule/history-2.htm
Link of the article about the Modern Times Population (Population Control in China):
http://countrystudies.us/china/34.htm
Those are the two articles that I read for comparing the population from the Era of Foragers and Modern Times, in some ways, they have connections, and I'll give the example of population control in China that relates to the ancient time.
［The Era of foraging, people were trying to live in small groups and they were nomads.］
In the Era of Foragers, people were always hunting and gathering, thus they also called ''Hunter-Gatherers'', they were nomads, they didn't live at the same places for a long time, the Hunter-Gatherers were always moving to other places.
By reading the first article I've learnt that because of their life way (nomad) , they prefered to not to have so many children, in this society, women allowed to carry one child. But it's good to had only one kid at that time because in that society, they were trying to have small groups, if there's too many children that wouldn't satisfy the groups.
Let's talk about the population in China, people there are trying to control the population, in China, every family can only have one child, if there's another child, you should pay for it, also, you may lose your job, too.
9/18/14
Agnes
Hunters and Gathers Population
Compares with Modern Times Population
Link of the article about the Hunters and Gathers Population:
http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/population/pophistorymodule/history-2.htm
Link of the article about the Modern Times Population (Population Control in China):
http://countrystudies.us/china/34.htm
Those are the two articles that I read for comparing the population from the Era of Foragers and Modern Times, in some ways, they have connections, and I'll give the example of population control in China that relates to the ancient time.
In the Era of Foragers, people were always hunting and gathering, thus they also called ''Hunter-Gatherers'', they were nomads, they didn't live at the same places for a long time, the Hunter-Gatherers were always moving to other places.
[They were trying to live in small groups so there shouldn't be too many children]
By reading the first article I've learnt that because of their life way (nomad) , they prefered to not to have so many children, in this society, women allowed to carry one child. But it's good to had only one kid at that time because in that society, they were trying to have small groups, if there's too many children that wouldn't satisfy the groups.
Let's talk about the population in China, people there are trying to control the population, in China, every family can only have one child, if there's another child, you should pay for it, also, you may lose your job, too.
(This picture shows that every family can only have one child)
What's the bad things about the population control? People in China will face problems like this:
—Old people are alone. There's even problem like their daughters or sons have arguments with them.
—The Aging of Population.
—Many places in China start to have problems that lack of offspring (daughters and sons)
—The amount of males and females are not equal.
—The quality needs to be improved.
—The decreasing of the quality of population.
Through the 2 articles, we can know that small groups in the Era of Foragers, the population kept in a small scope, and the population was really stable and nice. But nowadays in Modern Times, such as in China, to have the control of population actually has a lot of problems that never happened in the foraging time. And we can see the relations between these two times, also, we can see how different they are.What's the bad things about the population control? People in China will face problems like this:
—Old people are alone. There's even problem like their daughters or sons have arguments with them.
—The Aging of Population.
—Many places in China start to have problems that lack of offspring (daughters and sons)
—The amount of males and females are not equal.
—The quality needs to be improved.
—The decreasing of the quality of population.
2014年9月9日星期二
2014年9月7日星期日
How Man Invented Cities Thoughts and Reflections
Agnes Yu Period 7. 9/7/14
Thoughts and Reflections on:
How did man invent cities? Where did he invent cities? Why did he invent them? Please include an IMAGE.
At the very beginning, our ancestors was nomadic and lived in small groups.Then the new breed which called the homosapiens, developed the social tools and improved other things.
Cities and agriculture may have appeared first in Near East, they invented cities in the places which had enough sources for living such as food. They started living in a full-fledged community.
Why they invented cities is because of a lot of factors. For example, the life way as hunter-gather is not stable, with the rose of population, they had to store enough food for the people to live, it's not really safe and reliable way for them to keep hunting. Also, circumstances forced hunter-gathers to evolve new ways of surviving, too. In addition, only when they invented cities, they population will change, when everything settled down, the women which lived in settled community will increase the number of babies, they had 5-8babies per month.
2014年9月5日星期五
3 discussion questions
1:What does the author mean "unnatural" in the first paragraph?
2:Paragraph 5 mentioned that people abandoned hunting and gathering as soon as a reasonable alternative became available to them, why does is mean?Why they abandoned them?
3:When people started settling down, what changed about the growth of population?
2:Paragraph 5 mentioned that people abandoned hunting and gathering as soon as a reasonable alternative became available to them, why does is mean?Why they abandoned them?
3:When people started settling down, what changed about the growth of population?
2014年9月3日星期三
5 discussion questions
1：What will happen if ancient foragers live in a large group instead of small group?
2：Why is symbolic language importan?
3：How they control the growth quantity?
4：What's the different between Old Stone Age and New Stone Age?
5：What is Carbon Dating?
2：Why is symbolic language importan?
3：How they control the growth quantity?
4：What's the different between Old Stone Age and New Stone Age?
5：What is Carbon Dating?
2014年8月27日星期三
Two articles that show cultural conflict.
Link：
1：http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/culture-conflict
2：http://www.powerofculture.nl/en/specials/culture-and-conflict/Introduction
1：http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/culture-conflict
2：http://www.powerofculture.nl/en/specials/culture-and-conflict/Introduction
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