Me? Go to Space?

Ive never been to space before so I believe that I could learn a lot from the experience. I would learn about the different planets, stars and meteors. I could also become famous for going and discovering new things. There could potentially be some type of danger involved with traveling into the "unknown". A million things could go wrong such as getting lost and not being able to find my way back to earth. The spaceship could like break down or something. I would really freak out. But other than a few things going wrong, I would be on the space shuttle in a heartbeat.

Unit 4 Descriptive Logs

Aztec
1. term used to refer to certain ethnic groups or central Mexico
2. groups that spoke Nahuatl language
3. a member of a people of central Mexico
4. civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
5. came to control large areas of Mesoamerica north of the Gulf of Tehuantepec





Inca
1. a member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru
2. established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest
3. a ruler or high-ranking member of the Inca empire
4. a member of any of the peoples ruled by the Incas
5. largest empire in pre-Columbian America





Christopher Columbus
1. a navigator, colonizer and one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas
2. established the New World
3. first voyage was in 1492
4. discovered San Salvador Island
5. opened the door to the Americas





Colony
1. territory under the immediate political control of a state.
2. a group of people with the same interests or ethnic background
3. British colonies became the original 13 states of the US
4. "overseas possession"
5. people from different countries settle and start a town





Conquistador
1. a conqueror
2. a leader in a Spanish conquest
3. a small group of adventurers
4. sometimes were armies
5. a person on a conquest to the Americas or Mexico





Hernando Cortes
1. a Spanish conquistador
2. began the first phase of Spanish colonization in the Americas
3. conquistador of Mexico
4. sailed for in the New World in 1504
5. conquered the Aztecs





Francisco Pizarro
1. conqueror of the Inca Empire
2. Spanish conquistador
3. founded the city of Lima
4. conquistador of Peru
5. went to the New World in 1502





Mestizo
1. a person of mixed racial ancestry
2. mix of European and Native American ancestry
3. used in Spanish Empire
4. form the majority of Latin America population
5. mixed foreign ancestry





Middle Passage
1. forced transportation of African people from Africa to New World
2. Atlantic slave trade
3. goods were sold and traded for slaves
4. over 2o million were taken into slavery
5. slaves were taken across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and Americas





Triangular Trade
1. trade between ports and regions
2. trade between West Africa, West Indies, and Europe
3. most notorious during 18th century
4. usually traded slaves
5. cloth, copper, trinkets, guns and ammunition traded





Columbian Exchange
1. exchange of plants, animals, foods, slaves etc.
2. trade between western and eastern hemisphere
3. ecology, agriculture, and culture
4. contact between old and new world
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Printing Press vs The modern internet

The printing press had a huge effect on the spread of knowledge although, I believe the internet has had a much larger effect than the printing press. The printing press made it easy to print books and things which would help your knowledge very much. But, when it comes to actually using books to learn things you have to have MANY books. When you use the internet you basically have the entire world at you fingertips. Especially if you use google.com. The only down fall I guess you could have while using the internet is that it may be difficult to use if you cant type very well. On the internet you can also communicate with other people with things such as email, myspace, im or blogger.

Carpe Diem

I know right off hand Carpe Diem means "seize the day". Do you honestly think that people wake up in the morning and are like "I hope I fail at everything I try to do today"... maybe not. I have never thought that, ever. I dont many people try to fail at the things they want to succeed at. Most people want to be successful at the things they do. I also think that it means that you should live your life to the fullest. No matter what, because you never know what might happen. I actually used to have a layout on my myspace page that said Carpe Diem.

Descriptive Log Unit 3

Middle Ages
1. schematic division of European history into 3 "ages"
2. lasted from the 5th century to the Renissance
3.great change in culture, politics, science, society, agriculture and economics
4. referred as the "medieval period"
5. comes from the latin word medius (middle) and aevus (age)


Feudalism
1. set or reciprocal legal and military obligations
2. 3 concepts of lords, vassals, fiefs
3. nobility of warriors during the Middle Ages
4. lord was a noble that owned land, vassal was a person who was granted land by the lord, and the land itself was known as a fief.
5. term arose during the European Middle Ages


bubonic plague
1. mainly a disease in rodents and fleas
2. best known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis
3. from 1347 to 1351, the Black Death swept through Eurasia
4. Black Death continued to strike parts of Europe throughout the 14th century
5. spread mainly by black rats in Asia


secular
1. worldly rather than spiritual
2. relating to or advocating secularism
3. lasting from century to century
4. occuring once in an age or century
5. a member of secular clergy


Renaissance Man
1. a man who has broad intellectual interests
2. a man who is accomplished in areas of arts and science
3. a modern scholar
4. a modern scholar who is in position to acquire more than superficial knowledge
5. there is a movie called Renaissance Man (1994)


Renaissance
1. means "rebirth"
2. roughly spanned from the 14th to 17th century
3. cultural movement
4. influenced literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, etc.
5. people liked to party :)


Protestant Reformation
1. began with Martin Luther's activities
2. ended with Peace of Westphalia
3. attempt to refrom the Catholic Church
4. movement in Europe
5. sale of indulgences


Johann Gutenberg
1. invented the printing press
2. invented printing press around 1439
3. major work: Gutenberg Bible
4. was a German goldsmith
5. major factor in the Reformation



Martin Luther
1. German monk
2. theologian
3. church reformer
4. founder of Protestantism
5. translated the Bible into German


Henry VIII
1. King of England
2. Lord of Ireland
3. later became the King of Ireland
4. second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
5. second monarch of the House of Tudor