End of Year Reflection

End-of-year reflection:
    Imagine you can transport yourself through time but your time machine
    is on the fritz. You keep jumping from time and place after only one hour.
    Describe what you see, hear, smell and feel in each time hop. First, you
    arrive in pre-historical Kenya, then skip to ancient Sumeria, followed by
    ancient Egypt and India, ending with your last jump to present-day at an
    archaeological dig.

I start my journey in pre-historical Kenya. What I see is amazing. Art every where. I'm really amazed. I travel a lot of places. It's getting really hot and I feel the sun getting hotter and hotter,burning my back. I can't wait for that one hour to pass. At last its over now I land on ancient Sumeria. This is a very important place in my trip because it includes cities, kings, mythologies, sciences, religions, writings, culture, cuneiform and contributions. As I move on, I meet the first kings. I tell them my time is getting less, and that I need to go and the king says "okay, okay justwait a bit!" I wait and than for a second I don't see anything. I open my eyes and I'm in ancient Egypt. In Egypt I make a short visit because I was there many times. I quickly pass to ancient India. A man with a big hat takes me to the Nile River with his boat we travel the way and we end up in a place that archeologist are making a dig, so we join and I discover one of the biggest things on Earth, a dinosaur fossil. I must be very lucky! Or not my time machine 

is broken. What will I do now? 

The Indus and Ganges River Valleys(National Geography)

Describe the geography of the Indus and Ganges river valleys.
The beginning of the Indus River is in the Himalayas and than flows down to the Arabian Sea. The Ganges river follows along the Himalayas and then enters into the Bay of Bengal. The reason that the rivers grow larger as they go along is because as they flow through or along the Himalayas lots of melted ice seeps into the rivers making them larger. India has two different monsoon seasons; summer and winter. The summer monsoons begin mid-June, and bing in wet, moistened air from the Indian Ocean. The winter monsoons start in October and end around May, bringing in dry air form the north-east area and spread it throughout India and its surrounding countries. The summer monsoons season has many benefits such as farmers not being able to grow their crops without it, and agriculture is a vital part of India because 70% of it relies on agriculture. But though they benefit from the rain the monsoons sometimes lead to massive and destructive flooding. .

How did geography influence the building of Mohenjo-Daro similar to modern cities?

Due to Mohenjo-Daro's geography the inhabitance of the area built their homes and city above ground level. Also they built a citadel on a hill and probably surrounded it by a wall. They didn't only build a citadel though, sewage and drainage systems ran throughout the area taken all the waste and excess water out of the city. This probably kept the most important places from flooding.

Summary of the Taj Mahal Story

The story of the Taj Mahal that most of us have known about may not be the real truth. Herein Mr. P. N. Oak presents an interesting set of proofs that show a completely different story. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation Moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Taj Mahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a vast difference.

Mapping Project Blog Post

a) How do physical features, climate and elevation relate to each other?

The phyisacal feature of the maps are really similar.3D map, climate map, and elevation map are all different maps but they look alike. In ,each we had the same places marked such as the Thar Desert, Indus and Ganges rivers and the Himalayas. In our climate map we mainly focused on what sort of weather and the temperatures that it were in different Indian areas, whereas on our 3D map and elevation map we focused on the hight of the different areas of India.

b) What conclusions can you draw?

(Think about natural resources, climate/weather, and human settlement.)

TIndia has a wide variety in natural sources. Because when you look at our map and other maps we had many different areas bordered off by different features. Also when looking our different maps i started to realize why people settled where they did, because you wouldn't want to settle in the middle of the Thar Desert but in the areas that provided a wide variety of recourses such as by a river like in areas like New 

Deli.

Hindu God: Ganesh or Ganesa Blogpost

Ganesh or Ganesa, is one of the most well known and worshipped god within the Hindu Pantheon. Ganesh is hte son of Shiva and Parati, he has an elephantine appearance with a curved trunk, large ears, and the massive pot-bellied body of a human.
Ganesh is known as the Lord of Success and destroyer of evil and obstacles, aswell as being worshipped as the god of education, knowledge, wisdom, and wealth. Along with all is purposes of worship Ganesha is one of the five prime Hindu Deities (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Durgoa are the other four Hindu Deities.) Hindu Deities are beleived to be forms of the god Brahman and provide one of the ways to communicate with this one divinity.