Last Class

Today was our class Human Geo class! We took a test today and it was pretty hard. I'm sad it is our last class. I had a lot of friends in this class and i don't know anyone that's in my West Civilization class with Mr. Teter. I heard west civ isn't as interesting. I really liked human geo! I didn't like blogging when we didn't do much in class. It was really hard to do 150 words every night. I liked watching the video Shift Happens and the Nike video. I also liked the google docs. Also i liked the God Grew Tired of Us video. I liked all of the videos because they were really interesting and fun to watch!

Review

Today in class we finished the movie about Papua New Guinea and reviewed for the test tomorrow. I don't know how i'm going to do because i have a lot of homework and i also have my health exam. I'm hoping i have enough time to get all my work done!  I hope i do well because it is my last human geo test before the semester ends! I'm sad tomorrow is going to be my last class with Mr. Schick!

Video Malfunctions

Today in class we were going to watch more of the Papua New Guinea documentary but the video wouldn't load. We spent most of the class trying to get it to work and talking about what we watched yesterday. Finally we got it to work but we only got to watch 15 minutes of it. 

New Video

Today in class we started to watch a video about a guy named Jared Diamond who is investigation why some countries have so much while others have so little. He went to a country named Papua New Guinea. I thought it was really interesting how they got their food. Some of their food they even got out of a tree!

2 hour delay

Today we had a short class because we had a 2 hour delay but we continued to talk about the Greek and Roman cities. We also talked about how steel used to be used to make everything but now most things are made out of plastic. We talked about how a lot of Steel Mill's are shut down because there isn't enough things to make. We also talked about the Urban Revolution and the second revolution. 

Urban Geogrpahy

- have a surplus of food 
-social stratification (a leadership class)

5 hearths of urbanization 
- Mesopotamia, 3500 BCE
-Nile River Valley, 3200 BCE
- Indus River Valley, 2200 BCE
- Huang He and Wei River Valleys, 1500 BCE
- Mesoamerica, 200 BCE

Theocratic centers- where rulers were deemed to have divine authority and were god-kings 

Diffusion of Urbanization 
1) The Greek Cities 
- by 500 BCE, Greeks were highly urbanized
- Network of more then 500 cities and towns
- On the mainland and islands
- each city had an acropolis and an agora 

2) The Roam Cities 
-A system of cities and small towns, linked together with hundreds of miles of roads and sea routes 
- sites of roman cities were typically used for trade 
- A roman cities forum combined the acropolis and the agora into one space
- Roman cities had extreme wealth and extreme poverty (between 1/3 and 2/3's of the empires population was enslaved) 

First Day Back

city- a conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture and economics

urban: the buildup of the central city and the suburban realm- the city and the surrounding environment connected to the city

• Urban areas are the most common place to live 
• A rural area can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world 

The First Urban Revolution 

• Before any urbanization people clustered in agricultural villages

- a small village where most the the villagers are involved with agriculture. About 10,000 years ago people began living in agricultural villages.