Grisly Assyrian record of torture and death

Ben Howson world history 6                                                                    December 10, 2013

Thoughts and reflections on Grisly Assyrian Record of torture and death

Erika Bleibtreu 

The Assyrians were men who wanted to conquer much land, even the entire world if they could. They would stop at nothing to achieve this goal. They would put fear into the men that they were fighting against so that they would forever be remembered. They wanted people to fear them and quiver when they herd the word Assyrian. When they conquered the land that they wished to have, they would make the people there pay up and give the Assyrians money, food and any thing else that they wished to have, and the people would do this with ease, because they were scared of what the Assyrians might do to them if they did not do what they wished. The Assyrians would torture and kill people for punishment, and to also show the people what happens if you are to disobey the Assyrians. The Assyrians never wrote about any losses, they always wrote about victory. They would always write about all of their great victories, but never once about their losses, even if they had any or not. They would do this to again inflict fear into the people, and to make everyone think that they are unstoppable and powerful. They were very smart to do this, it made them look stronger, and it also made them feel stronger. 

 

      Picture of an ancient Assyrian carving of war.                       

Human Story 31-39

Histoy books would bother to include so much information about an obscured group of desert dwelling Nomads, well they do because for one reason, their story illastrates how their wandering peoples on the borders of the settled places such as Sumer, Egypt, ancient China, and the Indus Valley settled down. Their story illastrates this civilizating process. Another reason why, is because the religion of this group of seminomads, after they had settled down, later infuenced several billion people. That is why some history books bother to include information about a group of desert dwelling Nomads.

Moses making the pathway for all of the Hebrews to escape the Egyptian king.

Human story pages 39-47

History books do not bother to include so much information about an obscured group of desert dwelling Nomads, because we can not yet prove that this actual happened, because we do not have the enough information and proof that all of this actually happened in history. The main reason why we can not say that these events did happen in history, because the books that has all of the information in it, does not clarify enough to say that this happened. Thats why many history books do not bother to include all of this information that may or may not of happend. 

This is a picture of king Saul. 

The Dravidian Letter

Ben Howson, World Histor per. 6

11/21/13

Dear Divadasa, leader of the Aryans,

I am the leader of the Dravidians, and my people and are furious, for what you have done to us. I want to know why you and your people came to us, taking our land, and the very land that we have called home for centuries, driving us down to southern India. We have lifed on that land much longer than you, but yet you think that you have the right to come to India taking our land. But taking our land isn't the only thing that you and your people have done to us. You and your people have ruined our ancient Hindu religion, our agriculture, our social life, and worst of all you have moved us down the Caste System. We will no longer stand for this madness. So I feel that we the Dravidians should have the land that you took from us that is rightfully ours, and you and your people can have the land which we live on today. Also you and your people have changed the ancient Hindu religion of my people, by changing it from it's original form, by adding, and removing ancient ways that were never supposed to be messed with. You have also forsed your new religion on my people, completely destroying who we are as Dravidians. Taking our land is bad enough, but changing the ways of our belief is just outrageous.  You and your people have also changed our agriculture, by building on our ancient, sacred land, building houses, stores, and many other buildings. You have also destroyed many of our temples, and many other important buildings. Doing this is just dustusting and cruel. You are just rubbing it in our faces, as if we weren't mad enough. And probably the worst thing that you have done to my people and I, is you have made us lower in the Caste system. Doing this to us is just like peeing on our heads laughing. We were great people, with power, and respect, but you have completely taken that away from us. We had a place that we called home, and our lifes were perfect, and full of peace, untill you and your people came to India taking everything that we had away from us. What is your purpose for this madness? Why have you done this to us, is it for power, or wealth? We deserve to be respected. The Dravidians have never done anything to you and your people. You have destroyed who we are as Dravidians, and everything that we stand for and everything that has to do with us. You and your people have changed the way of our life, and because of the we will be forever different, and never the same. And for this, we will never be able to forgive you and your people. When you are in need of help, we will leave you to die. 

From, 

The Dravidians.

 

Land that the Dravidians lived on after Aryans took their land.

One of the ancient Dravidian buildings that still stands to day in North India. The Aryans didn't destroy this one.

Land that the Aryans took from the Dravidians, and that they lived on. 

Preface: This is not an actual letter that was written in the past. It is a letter that I have writen, to say how the Dravidians didn't like the Aryans, and how they impacted the dravidians life. 

Bibliography:

http://r2dnainfo.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

http://rmnathan.hubpages.com/hub/Ancient_Buildings_and_Sculptures_of_Mamallapuram_in_South_India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_peoples

http://appiusforum.net/indusvalley.html

http://www.facts-about-india.com/aryans-arrival-in-india.php

Thoughts and reflections on The silent Buddha

Ben Howson World History per. 6                                                                         November 18, 2013 

Thoughts and reflections on: The science of the Buddha

Author not told

Buddha was silent because he didn't want to say any thing bad or wrong to his fellow people. He didn't want to say anything that could hurt, harm, or just say something wrong, so he thought that it might just be best to keep his mouth zipped. Buddha wanted to be respectful, kind and tell the truth, so he just decided to take a silence. He was called the silent Buddha, because he didn't talk at all or much. That is what they silent Buddha is, and why he was given that name.

thoughts and reflections on The Indifference of Confucius

Ben Howson per. 6                                                                                                  11/9/13

Thoughts and reflections on "The Indifference of Confucius"

don't know author 

Confucius was indifferent about the thought of God and the creator. Therefore Confucius was indifferent about religion and many parts of religion, such as heaven. He really respected religion and every thing that goes along with it. He didn't belive in it but respected people who did. He talked about some really cool ideas and things that made you stop and think, making you curious about life and death. Confucius thought that relationships were very important. So he thought that the relationships between brother and brother, husband and wife, and other relationships between people are important. He thought that it was a very helthy and natural thing. Cunfucius was a very increadible man who by himself changed china.

World History scrap book #3 on Mesopatamia

Ben Howson

world history per. 6

People payed to drink beer and payed in beer.

In ancient day Mesopatamia many people were payed in beer, because back then it was quite a valuable resource. But today around the world, you can be payed to drink beer, in places like Berlin, Germany. Many people say that being payed to drink beer is the holy grail of jobs, and I bet that back in ancient mesopataimia they probably thought that getting payed in beer was pretty amazing. It funny how it has changed from people being payed in beer, to people being payed to drink beer. In my news letter about people being payed to drink beer, he was talking about how after a while it was getting boring and he started to not enjoy his job, and I bet in ancient Mesopataimia the people that were payed in beer also became tiered of being payed in beer even though it was a valuable resource, because thats all they got for their job, no money, just beer. Both ancient mesopatamia and today we all celebrate with beer and all enjoy it, but we don't enjoy it enough to be payed to drink it or to be payed in it. You are meant to enjoy beer, and I think that if you drank it all the time or were payed in it you would become tiered of it. Beer is something that we have had for a long time, and it is something that is very important to man kind, and will be for a long time. That is a connection between a thing today and ancient mesopatamia.                

Ps. When I say "we", I mean people who are able to drink beer, and that they are over the age of 21.

Mother Cow Questions.

Ben Howson, world history per. 6                                                           October 31, 2013

Thoughts and reflections on: mother cow

Author-

The main functions that cow are used for in India are for fuel, fertilizer, milk, floorcovering, meat, and leather. The cows are very useful, because of all of these things, even though they produce little amounts of milk compared to other cows aroung the world, but those little amounts of milk can really help the poor farmers, by giving them some food, energy, and protien. The real reason that cows are sacred in India, is because They were very useful to them in so many ways. We use chemicals such as pestasides, and lots of natural gasses, when in india They use oxen for the used of tractors.The Indians are much more inviormentaly frendly, because they use everything from the cow even there dung. They also dont use big mashinery that puts a lot of polution into the air. I think that the Indians use their cows more eficinatly, because they use everything from the cow. They get meat, leather, milk, and just a bunch of other other stuff that is very important, and useful.

Caste Ststem

The Caste System is a social structure that classes you based on Hinduism determend by birth (heredity). The people at the top of the caste system are called Brahmins, and the people at the very botom of the cast system are called the untuchables. So pretty much your whole life depended on your parents, and what the did in life.The Caste system both unifys and divide, It divides people by splitinng them up into classes based on their heredity, it also unifys people by putting everyone together. The caste system got to India mostly through religion, but it also came to India from other things. But today the religios side of the caste system is starteing to fade away. The caste system's purpose is that wethy people have welthy kids, and on and on. Also poor people have poor kids, but they sometimes also have welthy kids, but they need to work their way up to the top if they want to wealthy, and what they did in there life determens their kids life. The Caste system still exists today, because of religion.

Attributes of ancient India

Ben Howson, World History 6                                                                               October 28, 2013

Thoughts and reflections on: Ancient India: outstanding attributes of ancient India.

Don't No Author.

Many outstanding things that we have today have come from ancient India. One outstanging attribute that we have gotten from them is being able to have fresh water in our houses. I think that this is important, because we don't have to go outside and gather water and disinfect it every time we want a drink of water. Another attribute is being able to have copper mirrors. I think that this is important, because we use mirrors every day, such as going to the dentance, he uses it so that he can see into the back of your mouth. We also have the attribute of light, as candles, lamps, and using vegetable oil as the fire starter. This is important, because this was the beging of light, and if we didn't do this, we probably wouldn't have the lightbulb. We also learned how to farm and use sugarcane, and cotten. This is important, because use sugarcane in foods, and we use cotten in cloths, and we need both of these thing every day. They also we the ones who domestacated most animals and plats. this is important because we have and use domescated animals every day. We use them for food, work, and clothing. This has been a very vitle step in the human race. We also have pottery and toys. This is important, because we use pottery to eat out of, and also to plant. 

Sarcophagus project

The first colom is my name, and the rest it the 6 things that I enjoy.

For my symboles I used a tennis wraket, because I love tennis, and I also put waves, because I love to swim, and I also love the ocean. I pun on a Nike symbol, on my sarcophagus because I love to run/ hike, I put on a pair of skis, because I love to ski, and I put on a road, because I love road bikeing. 

I put a door, so that I could get out if I needed to. I put on a 4 leaft colver, to represent luck and a modern day beetle. Also so that I would have good luck in the after life. I also put on the eye of Horas, so that I can see. I put neclaces on and also colord my sarcophagus gold to represent that I was rich, and a good pharoh. Also so that I could bring my welth and power on to the after life. My name is in the middle of my sarcophagus, and it represents who I am. 

I used the colors gold and blue the most, because they are colors of royalty. 

I put all of this stuff on my sarcophagus, because it has the things that I like to do, and symboles that will help me in the afterlife. I think that it is important that I put the things that I like to do on there, so that I will still have them, and still be good at them in the afterlife. I also put all of the symboles on there, so that I would have good luck and important things that will help me on my way to the after life. 

The Egyptians were not scared of dieing. They thought of dieing as a new begining, and going to the after life was where that new begining began. They burried the pharaohs, and other important people with most of the stuff that was clossest to them when they were alive. So they would burry them with their gold, pets, slaves, and many other things, so that when they got to the after life, every thing would be the same, as when they left life. They drew and painted symboles on them to wish them luck and to serve them in the after life. They would put symboles of games and sports and just a bunch of things that they liked to do. They got this idea of going to the after life from their religion, and also from the thought of not living. I think that they did this, because they liked to belive that your life doen't just end one day, and that hopefully the people that you love will go to a good place. I think that they couldn't get over the fact of daeth, so they turned it in to a happy thing.

Question 21

Question 21 answers

Ben Howson

The worlds first skyscrapers were the ancient Eygiptian pyramids. They weren't really the skyscrapers that we have today, but they were extreamy tall, and made out of massive stones that together in one pyramid weighed about 850,000 tons. These pyramids stand arould 200 feet in the air, which is pretty good saying that they were made hundreds of years ago. Today we have skyscrapers that stand about 2,000 feet in the air, and we are still making them taller. The whole point of the pyramids, was to burry important people, such as the pharaohs and others who are near the top of the important pyramid. So pretty much a pyramid is a huge 200 foot tall grave, for one person, treasure, slaves, and other things like pets that were killed, so that they could help the pharaohs in the after life. Most of the pyramid is filled with traps and other things that could kill you if you try and take gold from the toom. They Egyptians had there own way to burry the dead. They pretty much rip out the guys heart, and the rest of his intestens and organs. Then they rap up every thing, and throw it back into the body, and then in to a stone sarcophagus. They  do this, because they wanted to presurve the dead body, so they mummified the dead bodys. They did this, because they wanted them to go to the after life. I think that there are many modern equivalents to the ancient pyramids.

Thoughts and reflections on a light that did not fail.

Ben Howson                                                                                           10/8/13

World history per. 6

Thoughts and reflections on A Light That Did Not Fail.

By E. A. Speiser

Mesopatameans were so ethnically diverse, because of the Silmarians. Their culture group was a perfect pice of a puzzle that worked perfectly with all the other other pices. Mesopatamia was a giant melting pot, kind of like the USA today, with all these different divercitys. I think that if we didn't have Mesopatamia the USA would be a completaly different place.

The basic features and enduring cultural values of ancient Mesopotamia civilizations were, because all the people in Mesopatamia worshiped, and looked up to the same gods. The only people who didn't worship the same gods were the Egyptians, because they were not in Mesopatamia, the where in Africa. They also have a love for woman.

The ancient mesopantamians built their cities over and over again in the same place, because they loved their land, and had a very deep connection with it, so they didn't want keep moving every time something bad happend. Like in Boulder, we don't move all of are roads around, just because of the flood. We rebuild them, and make them better. Just because because so etching is broken doesn't mean that you can't fix it. They also picked a very good spot to live. They picked a spot that was close to a river, but not to close, so that if the river floods, not every thing will get damaged.they really loved where they lived, and there is no point of moving around all the time, just because of a natural disaster, like a flood. 

Cadillac Desert

Ben Howson, World History 6                                                                  September 26, 2013

thoughts and reflections on: Cadillac Desert 

By Marc Reisney

A cupple hundred years ago, the ocean was freash enought to drink. Insted of salty horible water. It became salty when the salt started to evaporate in the water and at that point it started to leave behind the salt. Day by Day, week by week, month by month the ocean slowly became saltier. This was not good for the people who lived near the ocean, because it started to affect plants and many other things. The only thing that the salt water didn't affect was cotten. But still it didn't do the farmers any good, because they could not farm, and for many of them farming was the only thing that they had, and knew to do. But luckaly for them a fertile crecent started to form by the Tigris Rivers, so that they were not limited with their environment. This basicaly means that the Mesopotamians never ran out of water. This when agriculture really started to form. For example one of the civilizations depended completaly on irrigation, because it was a way to survive uninterruptedly for thousands of years.  Ancient people that lived in mespatamia were able to live with in the limitations of their harsh environment because of salt, and irragation. If they did not have these two very important things, I don't think that they would of been able to live where they did. 

Thats how People were able to to live in their harsh environment.

World History Scrapbook #2 Agriculture

The first article that I read was talking about how the Mayans home was a very tough environment with a lot of droughts, and rising sea levels, but the worsed thing was the land that that they had to farm. The land that they had to farm was rough, rocky terrain interixed with vast swamps, or wetlands. The other article that I read was talking about the very poor soil in Malawi, Africa, and about how it is very hard to farm, and that Agriculture expertes are worring that Africa's soil problems are heading towards a crisis. 

Some simularitys between the two are that both the Mayans and the Africans live in very tough enviroments, and that they are both very hard lands to farm on. Africa is has very dry soil, and the soil is also pretty rocky, and where the mayans lived in mexico was also very rocky, but it was also wetlands. Another simularity between the two is that they both really depend on mothernature because   if they have a bad season, they could die of starvation. In the end the Mayans did find a very good and smart way to farm. They would dig ditches, which would elavate the root system of their crops above the waterlogged soil. But Africa still does not know what they should do. But African goverments and scientists all agree that the farmers of Africa must refertilize their soils. But they do not know the best way to do this. So for now Africas farmers will strugle for a little bit longer, unless they can aford to buy fertilizer by them selves. 

So as you can see farming has been quite an issue throught history, and we are still learing the best way how to do it.

Urls of articles:

www.nature.com/news/african-agriculture-dirt-poor-1.10311

www.nature.com/news/2010/101105/full/news.2010.587.html

Mexico 

Malawi Africa

World History Scrapbook # 1: Hunters and Gathers

Even though it does not seem that there are a lot of comparisons between the past and present, there actually are. The first article that I read was about the Eskimos, and that they are starting to use more modern tools to kill animals for food. It was talking about how they recently killed a whale, but they used a exploding harpoon and many other modern tools to kill the whale. The other article that I read about was Hunters and Gathers, and it talked a lot about that they hunted animals and gathered vegetables to create meals so that they could survive. Some similarities between the two articles are that both Hunters/gathers and Eskimos had to hunt for their food in order to survive. When they would kill the animal they would both use it's skin to create clothing, and they would use the bones to make knives and many other useful tools. Another similarity is that the Hunters/Gathers were slowly modernizing their tools, And now the Eskimos are now starting to modernize their tools. Also Hunters/Gathers settled down and created little settlements, and Eskimos settled down and created little settlements. After they settled down they both had to adapt to their environment, learn the land, and where to find food. As you can see Hunters/Gathers and Eskimos are actually quite similar to one another, even though one of them is from the past, and the other is from the present.

There are some comparisons between Hunters/Gathers and Eskimos.