Each week, we’re going to use this space to continue our discussions about the weekly topics. This means that we share things pertaining to subjects or topics that are related to this week but might not have come up during our face-to-face discussion.
· What do you want to add to this week’s discussion?
· Which “game changer” you felt was significant and why?
· Do you have articles, videos, or information that would be pertinent to your fellow students (about one this week’s game-changers)?
Examples then response to 2 of them
Egypt
by Douglas McDonald – Friday, February 7, 2020, 10:28 PM
One of the biggest game changers I thought for Egypt was Their irrigation system. Since they were surrounded by two rivers of both sides of them, not only did it make them almost impenetrable to foreign invasion, it made it really easy for them to get water into their city. they created systems that went throughout the city for many different reasons. but I thought the most important was how they would grow crops with it. as Egypt is in the middle of the dessert, you would think it would be difficult to grow anything. but with the way their water system was, it made water and growing crops feasible for the whole city.
Egypt
by Axel Freiberg – Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12:50 PM
Mummification could be considered the first method of embalming. Its very interesting how Egyptians would commemorate a pharaoh by mummifying them and then placing them in a huge pyramid structure. This really gives a strong sense of what may have been important to civilization during this time period. While beliefs and worship tend to be important aspects to every time period, you can really tell that the Egyptians went the extra mile. I think mummifying and building pyramids is similar to what we do to commemorate the dead today. While a pyramid is a much more significant structure, its still worth recognizing that we commemorate our dead with structures such as mausoleums, and gravestones.
Egypt
by Mohammed Al Madan – Friday, February 7, 2020, 2:55 PM
I think the most interesting thing that they were eating a lot of bread while they building pyramids. I guess Bread, nutritionally, provided protein, starch and trace nutrients, and it also played much the same role as beer in the Egyptian economy as well as in cult rituals. However, some flour caused severe abrasion of the teeth particularly among those who depended upon bread as their main source of nourishment.
Egypt
by Kyle Marshall – Sunday, February 9, 2020, 3:37 PM
While having conversation in class about Egypt one of the game changers that sparked my attention was their invention of bread. This is a subject that I hadn’t heard of or came across while I was studying for the presentation. Bread was a huge game changer in ancient Egypt because of its nutritional value and its many good uses and purposes. They made bread out of a wheat known as emmer. They made bread by flattening it onto a round board and baking it in an oven made out of red nile mud. Bread was also an important sign of life and seen as an essential for Egypt to prosper.
https://www.arabamerica.com/aish-baladi-bread-ancient-egypt/
Egypt
by Lexy Smith – Friday, February 7, 2020, 1:49 PM
Something that I found interesting about our discussion of Egypt is in the video that we were watching: it was papyrus! Papyrus is an ancient form of paper that the ancient Egyptians used. Papyrus is made of a plant called cyperus papyrus and was found near the Egyptian Delta and in the Nile River Valley (Mark, 2020). Papyrus served the purpose of record keeping which included: “. . . prayers and songs, royal decrees and letters, prose tales, and texts that served to educate the young” (Fiero, 2017, p. 23). Also, papyrus had some secondary purpose for the ancient Egyptians: “Papyrus was used as a food source, to make rope, for sandals, for boxes and baskets and mats, as window shades, material for toys such as dolls, as amulets to ward off throat diseases, and even to make small fishing boats” (Mark, 2020). Nowadays, paper has become a second thought because it always has been there. We are able to write down as much as we want/need to in our notebooks when in class. We are also able to recycle paper to be able to make it into other things like those paper straws that are very popular right now.
Citations:
Fiero, G. K. (2017). Landmarks in humanities (Fourth). New York: McGraw Hill Education.
Mark, J. J. (2020, February 2). Egyptian Papyrus. Retrieved February 7, 2020, from https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Papyrus/
