Wednesday, April 21, 2010

zinn event

the event we to i liked it really alot and the part i liked the most was wen the speakers got up and did there part that was the part i liked the most..

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

bridge blog

iam entering for strength because its really my first time doing this so i wouldnt know how to go for looks. and it took a long time to build because i wasnt really at school because ive been sick and me and my partner bulit the bridge like that because it was easy and we had to hurry and finish. i think it would do good in the competion and i think that the bridge would hold up to 200..

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

the mayas


the mayas time period is 2000bc to 1500ad. the mayas was located in the eastern one thrid of mesoamerica but mainly on the yucatan peninsula. the ten facts about the mayas are they are a group of related native american tribes who have the same linguistic organization. they also had a common artistic and religious components but not politically they were independent mayan states. there were many seperate groups with similar cultural background. the art of the maya reflected their lifestyle and culture. their art was composedof delineation and painting upon the paper building plaster,woood,stone,and clay. the reason for the downfall was unknown. the collapse of the maya has many explanations from the hypothese to single catastrophic events. the collapse of the maya remains one of the most intriguing events in human history. maya had a sophisticated system of writting it was developed in order to record their transitionof power through the generations. the mayan civilization is divided into three time periods which engulfed 3000 years ago. the civilization i choosed was the maya because i really wannaknow more about it then i already did before. during this assignment i noticed that it made me know more about the mayas then i didnt even know till now.