Room 613 Talk

Christianity By Allie B.
Did you know the Christians are the followers of Jesus Christ? And in fact the word Christ originated from the Greek term anointed which means chosen one. There are many holy days and much more!!!
They began when Jesus started to preach that he was the Messiah and [...]

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Have you ever wondered about the land between two rivers? In other words Mesopotamia? Well I have. Here is many facts that may answer your questions. One thing first. Did you know that Mesopotamia is Greek for the land between two rivers? I didn’t. Also, do you know the names of the rivers? [...]

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Have you ever wondered where the first civilization developed? First, what is a civilization? Civilization is a culture of people that have each of these things:

A system of writing

Cities

Workers who specialize in certain type of work. Who was first to have these?

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Mesopotamia by Emelie V.

5,000 years ago, an incredible event occurred. The world today would not be the same if the land “between two rivers” had not been settled by the Sumerians, and 1,900 years later fallen under the Assyrians, reign. Mesopotamia, or the land “between two rivers”, was formed in 3,000 B.C. [...]

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Mesopotamia by Kelley L.
In Mesopotamia there were many civilizations such as, the Babylonian, Assyrians, and Sumerians. Did you know that Mesopotamia means ’’land between the rivers’’? Well that’s where it got its name, Mesopotamia means between two rivers. Archeologists found Mesopotamia under a baron desert. In case you didn’t know Sumerians were the first [...]

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Mesopotamia By Allie B.
Have you ever wondered about the first civilizations? Who lived there what were they like? Well I had those questions until I watched an amazing movie that told me about Mesopotamia, or “between the rivers”. There were many city-states in Mesopotamia, one was Sumer. The Sumerians lived in homes [...]

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Plate Tectonics by Sam M.
Plate tectonics was discovered long ago but now it has grown to be one of the most fascinating studies in geography. Before plate tectonics was discovered a man named Alfred Wegner discovered continental drift. He believed that all the continents were joined together to form what he called Pangaea. Over time [...]

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Plate Tectonics by Jake O.
Today in class when we watched a video we learned some things about the earth. We talked about the pieces of the earth, crust, mantle, outer core and the core. Also we talked about plate tectonics. Then we learned about divergent boundaries, when two plates pull apart. Also, we learned [...]

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