Questions about Egypt =)

1. What do you think will happen next in your country?
2. How do you feel about the choices your country is making?
3. How did you feel while in the riots?
4. If you could make the decisions for your country, what would you do differently?
5. By Mubarak stepping down from president, how do u think this act will help your country?
6. Why did everybody want Mubarak to step down from president?
7. What were the major problems in Egypt?
8. Does Egypt already have new candidates for president?
9. How is life in Egypt?
10. What are you hoping for when a new president is elected?

"Kool Valentine Katz" of Egypts

Population:
More than 76 million people live in Egypt. Life expectancy is around 70 years. Birth rate is on average 2.95 per woman. Literacy rate is 68% for men and only 47% for women.
Languages:
Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes.
Ethnic Groups:
Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%. Greek, Nubian, Armenian and other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%.
Religion:
Muslim (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6%

The "Kool" " Kats" of Egypt! :)

                 Animal worship in ancient Egypt was part of the culture of the daily life of Egyptians. All animals were respected as they were in close contact with deities and gods that they couldn't reach. The cat of ancient Egypt or the Miv was a sacred respected beast. The cat was first domesticated in ancient Egypt 4,000 thousand years ago. There are wild felines around the banks of Egypt, but it wasn't until around 2000 BCE that domesticated cats were brought into the houses of Egyptians. During the New Kingdom (1540 to 1069 BC), there were many tombs that started showing cats as part of everyday life. The ancient Egyptians took their cats on hunting excursions instead of dogs because they believed that the cats were alot more powerful than dogs. They believed that cats had been trained to find fowl and fish. Children had become known in their family as Mit or Miut, showing great affection not only for the child but for the cats also. Statues of cats were placed outside the house to protect the inhabitants and to ward off evil spirits. After this action, many scientists believed that cats had become an integral part of the ancient Egyptian family life.
                They first felin diety, somtime depicted as a lynx is a Mafdet. But the most famous cat goddesses in the world, first revered by the ancient Egyptians were Bastet (also known as Bast, Pasch, Ubasti) and the lion-headed Sekhmet. Bastet had the roles of fertility, protector of children and the protector of all cats. Bastet became so popular that she became a household goddess. This goddess was called Bastet when in full cat form, and Bast when only having the head of one and the body of a beautiful woman.In Bubastis, or Tell Basta, the cats lived a lavish life as the `embodiment' of Bastet in her temples. Here they were served upon and taken care of until they passed away, and  their bodies were mummified and given as offerings to Bastet.
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Papua New Guinie Essay

Kamau Stokes

Febuary 10,2011

Western Civ. Test

                              Jared Diamond's theory of geographic luck was certainly true according to the evidence in the move. Jared Diamond stated that many civilizations are huge and are doing well because of the natural resources and domestice animals they had to grow their population. Many civilization didn't eat healthy, did't have enough food and didn't have animals to help them farm. Those people had to farm and plow all by themselves and had to keep moving everytime they fell into a slump with their enviornment. New Guinie struggled with many things and one of the hardest things were making tools for farming. They were not able to support their metal workers with food to trade for tools to farm because of the shortage of crops and animals.

                             

                              Jared Diamond mentioned an area in the middle east called the fertile cresent. The fertile cresent was known to be the worlds first real civilization, where we transitioned from from being animals to real humans. People in the fertile cresent made the worlds first grannery and started caring about their health. The people of the fertile land later reached egypt and made the civilization huge and they were able to feed everyday and later were forced to build pyramids, and the same thing for Europe. Farming wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the people of the fertile cresent spreading their farming actions with the world.

                              

                              There are 14 animals that helped many people farm and make life easier. The 14 domestic animals are  goatees, sheep, pigs, calf's, horses, donkeys, 2 kinds of camels, lamas, rain deer, yaks, mithans, water buffalo, and bali cattle. All of these animals helped in many ways such as farming, drinking and supplying meat and clothes for them during the winter.

Papa New Guinea

• Papua New Guinea has 6 million people
• They now have coal, silver, gold and things like that
• Unemployment rate is 11th in the world
• Industrial production growth rate is 16th in the world
• Mostly Christian 
• Oil production is 68th in the world
• Real growth rate is 34th in the world
• Almost half their military is females
• Only 125,000 internet users out of their 6 million population
• 54,000 people living with AIDS
• 125th in the world for electricity income
• .49% of their land is arable 

Class notes

Understanding how fire worker was the way we learned about steel and how to create things with steel. Because of the shortage of crops in Nu Ginni, they were not able to supply metal workers with food and trade them for tools to farm. Because of the dry climate, people of the fertile cresent abandon their homes. You don't want to exploit the environment. An two places that have the same longitude and latitude have the same climate, physical features and vegetation. Once the people of the fertile land reached Egypt, the made the civilization huge and they were able to feed everyday and later were forced to build pyramids, and the same thing for Europe. Farming wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the people of the fertile cresent spreading their farming actions with the world..

Animals

Domestic animals... goatees, sheep, pigs, calf's, horses, donkeys, 2 kinds of camels, lamas, rain deer, yaks, mithans, water buffalo, and bali cattle. 13 animals are from northern africa and asia. One of these animals are from south america. The people in Nu Ginni didnt get the right animals to domesticate, so they are having sa harder time than any other country. After these 4 animals came from the middle east. The area was called the firtile cresent. It was one of the larger crop growing civilazation in the world because of these animals.

Today we discussed the following in class. There are many animals that can help farm an area but all of these animals are only in crtain places.