Today in western civ class we picked our seats and began to meet all of our new classmates. Im pretty mad that Grace & McKenna aren't in my class anymore but life goes on. We started off by talking about how we set up our new blogs and the link for Mr. Schick's blog. For the people who had Mr. Schick last semester it wasn't hard to set up another blog, because we just had to click a few simple buttons. For the two new students they had to make gmail accounts and they then had to set up their blogs.  I feel that western civ will be a good class and very interesting.

Below are the words we had to define:

- prehistory: the period of time before written records.

- Paleolithic Age: second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC.

- Neolithic Age: latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east

- Agricultural Revolution: a significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries, inventions, or new technologies that change production.

- cuneiform: denoting or relating to the wedge-shape characters used int he ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, survive mainly impressed on clay tablets.

- ziggurat: a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

- Indo-Europeans: a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Salvic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-Europeanlanguages.