Valerie's Humanities Blog

This week, I will REALLY pay attention during class so that I will be ready for the test in Wednesday.

I found it confusing because if the tribes found ways to plant crops so they didn't need to hunt everyday anymore, then why did they invent new things or discover new islands? Instead tribes fought with tribes, why couldn't they just make friends with one and another?

Question:

Why did the tribes choose to fight against each other then to make friends and invent things together?

This week, I learnt a lot about different kinds of areas in Canada and how the tribes survive there regions. I thought that it was very cool to see a canoe being made and that was almost like how the tribes made it then.

I found it difficult to understand how the tribes manged to cut down trees in order to build houses because did they only have spears?

Question:
After the buffalo jump, how do the tribe preserve the meat? I thought that they didn't have any refrigerators at that time.

For today's class, I learnt a lot about why we are in Asia (Hong Kong) today, how people found ways to go into Asia, how long it took to go there (Asia), etc.

What I found difficult:
I didn't really understand how the ice bridge was formed, was it because of all the glaciers building up or did it just form randomly?

My question is:
How did the ice bridge form?

Today we are learnt many things about theories of how humans are now here at this very moment. One out of many theories, the most common was called the "evolution theory " is was thought upon on a man named Charles Darwin.

I thought it was difficult because it felt like Mr.Smeed was throwing a lot of explanations at me, it was sort of hard to take in all of the theories that people had/have.

Overall, in this lesson, I learnt a lot about the history of human-beings and I really like the idea of watching short videos to help us learn, it helped a lot!

The question is: Why are the first humans from Africa/ the old world?