Vinny's rap was good. Egyptian "President" leaving office, people don't think it's fast enough. Egypt heard about the other nation's president thrown out and got encouraged by it and decided to throw out their guy. Switzerland on their side.

Have you ever been threatened to be tortured
if so, what did you do after threatened
and for what?
what's your job?
Are you into politics?

We had a few groups of people do their raps. Watching a movie now about a girl who wants the Egyptian president to leave, but her family doesn't want it.

Egypt presentations

• Sphinx represents lion and Pharaoh 
• built as tombs for the pharaohs and queens
• chambers- grand gallery
• queen's chamber
• underground chamber
• Hieroglyphs- formal writing system used by Egyptians 
• people who wrote them were called scribes
• Ideogram
• phonographs
• pictograph
• over 2,000 different symbols 
• Nile- 
• longest rivers in the world
• main river
• name from the Greek word "Nelios"
• 4184 miles in length
• ability to produce extremely fertile soil
• also used for drinking water

Pyramids continued

About eight pyramids known from ancient Egypt

built as tombs for pharaohs and their queens 

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/home.html

"However, there are actually over 100 pyramids in Egypt, many of which are relatively unknown to anyone who is not an ancient Egypt enthusiast. All but a very few are grouped around and near the City of Cairo, just south of the Nile Delta. Otherwise, only one royal pyramid is known in southern Egypt (at Abydos), that being the one built by Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty and Egypt's New Kingdom.It may have also been the last royal pyramid built in Egypt."

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramids.htm

Egypt has 130 pyramid. Pyramid of Djoser was constructed 2630 BCE–2611 BCE. That was built in the third dynasty. Most are found in Saqqara 

"Contrary to some popular depictions, the pyramid builders were not slaves or foreigners. Excavated skeletons show that they were Egyptians who lived in villages developed and overseen by the pharaoh's supervisors." <-- National Geographic 

Essay

  Back in the day, before technology of any kind, before neighborhoods, schools, or anything, there were hunters and gatherers. Hunters did as their name states, they hunted anything they could find. It was an extremely unreliable source of food and it wasn't unlikely that they would go back to their people with nothing. They had to move with their prey, using great skill to take it down. Unlike hunting, if gathering, you could stay in basically the same place for longer, maybe leaving if no more food was available. But the problem was, no one could live off of just gathering, and the food ran out very quickly, so they had to travel as well.
    Once they discovered ways to domesticate food, things got a little better. they didn't need to leave as much, able to stay in one place for longer, more food was available, and most importantly, there was a surplus. The surplus was extremely important due to a few key factors. One of them being what I said before, you could stay in one place longer, not having to worry about your foot supply. Others branched from that key advantage. Because people could stay longer, they were able to have specialized works such as farming, caring for children, "Research," which for them meant learning how to make better weapons for hunting, making better houses, and learning what can be cooked and what tastes better than what. Also one could learn to build, helping the researchers build sturdy homes made to last harsh winters and hot summers.
   Once the researching began, it never stopped. People started learning new things, growing more and more aware of their surroundings. Soon they started putting two and two together, making their lives more and more enjoyable. They found animals and domesticated them, using them for the hard labor they couldn't or wouldn't do. They learned what kinds of animals were good for riding or for pulling heavy things. They also learned which animals were better for meat, milk, hide, or other things of that nature.
    The people started having more family or neighbor like relationships, now that they had such a surplus, housing, and other things, they could worry about gossip or relations in general. This all happened because of surplus. Their lives improved just by adding a little bit more food and flexibility to their now "Civilized" Village and society.

review

Reviewing for the test we are having tomorrow. You just made animal noises at Lauren. Advantages are, you can get milk, meat, hides out of them. What is required for domestic  animals. Human friendly, at least 100 pounds. They also have to be healthy, good for work. They also need to follow a social triangle type of thing. Food has to be easy to prepare. Big leap came from hunters and gatherers to farmers. if not everyone has to raise food others can do other things like specialized labor. Such as doctoring or building and researching. someone could be making clothes and  weapons. move from east to west.