The epic gilgamesh

Doing the skits on Wednesday was a lot of fun. It was so nice to see my classmates feel comfortable around each other and put up some good presentations. The presentations were awesome and it helped me understand the story better. Going after all the plays after the presentations and discussing them helped even more. That gave me a better understanding about the whole story and the way the people thought and the way that they did things. Other things that caught my attention this past week in class was learning about the Neanderthal and the homosapiens. The activity that we did in  class that made more sense to me was that a Neanderthal male mated with a homosapien female. This was interesting because how are we supposed to know what people preferred and why these two types of people ended up having a fertile offspring.
So starting the Neolithic era we started looking at The epic of Gilgamesh. This i a epic story about civilizing humans. The makin characters in the story is Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Harlot. We acted out the story and saw how people acted and how they became more civilized than how they were.

Chapter 2(start with agruculture)

 09/04/2014
Chapter two(agriculture)

• While reading i learned about agriculture. i learned about the ways it spread and the way that people helped it spread.
• There were two different ways that it spread. The first was diffusion and the other was migration and colonization.
• this also meant the spread and the movement of cultures and languages. 
• globalization of agriculture was a very long process that has lasted thousands of years.
• Some places and people that resisted agriculture was because of the harsh environments which they lived in and the harsh deserts or artic environments.
• one thing that caught my attention was that some people that lived in certain environments did not feel the need for agriculture.
• However people did see a decrease in agriculture because that was due to the fact that technology was being presented, intermarriage, disease, or through the violent displacement of people.
• As agriculture was increasing population was also increasing. They saw a very big increased in population through the agricultural revolution era.
• NOT everything was sweet with agriculture. There was a big decrease in human health and more diseases.
• People would be in contact with animals most of the time, and that would make them a target for the diseases that they carried(small pox, flu, measles, chicken pox, malaria, rabies etc.)
• One thing that i always found interesting was when they discovered that wheat, rice, and grpes were domesticated and they could be made into alcoholic beverages.
• Animals were very important in the sence that people rely on them a lot for milk, and food producing. 
• Women and men had roles, and women's roles were more involved in milking animals, processing the milk.
• A lot of societies retained much of the social and gender equality of gathering and hunting communities.
• Other village societies came to organize themselves politically in having chiefs,kings.
• Agriculture gave the opportunity for men to dominate nature, but it also gave them the power to dominate each other.