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In Social Studies we are working on Current Event articles where every class some one has to present a important incedent that had happend over the last month.

Here is my summary of the article:

As you all know Google Earth is a downloadable program where you can see the Earth from a range of 15cm to 15m. Google is also making their program more modern by having 3D effects.

Though, citing security in India has been worrying about the details in Google Earth, therefore, Google has been having meetings with the Indian government to discuss which sites are too sensitive to show on Google Earth. They included military basses and government buildings.  The government is making a list of the places that are too sensitive to be viewed via Google Earth. Many of these areas have already been blurred on Google Earth. Google said that they are glad that they have talked it over, though there has not been any decisions made yet, and that they will continue talking until the problem is solved. The Indian government wants to blur some sights because they are scared that terrorists can get too much detail from it.

The images that Google Earth uses are often made by the government or other agencies, and they already blur them before giving them to Google. In exceptional circumstances Google Earth will also blur images. Because Google Earth has blurred some sights, it has encouraged more people to spot those locations.

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Here is a picture of where every thing is taking place:

Hey People,

In social studies we are doing an Aztec project and with that we had to answer all kinds of questions and find the definition of words.

Here are the vocabulary words:

Anthropologist – A person who is specialized on the scientific study of the origin, behavior and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans and their belief.

Archeologist- A person who studies prehistoric people and their culture.

Economist- A specialist of the production and spreading of money and goods.

Historian- A person how studies history.

Linguist- a person who studies language.

Theologian- a person who studies religion and its influences and finding what is true.
And here are the questions:

Step 1:

• Where did the Aztecs originally live? = North West Mexico in a place called Atzlan.
• What prompted them to relocate? = They were so nasty that they were driven to one place from an other. Then Tenoch had a vision that Huitzilopochtli and he told him to lead his people to a swampy island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. There he was supposed to find an eagle sitting on a cactus, which was growing from a rock or cave surrounded by water. There they were supposed to build their city and thank Huitzilopochtli with human sacrifice. The city Tenochtitlán was named after Tenoch in around 1325.
• Where did they end up and why? = They ended up on a swampy island in the middle of Lake Texcoco because Tenoch had a vision that Huitzilopochtli had told him to lead his people there. There they were supposed to find the symbol which was an eagle that sitting on a rock and eating a serpent. There they were supposed to build their city and thank Huitzilopochtli with human sacrifice. The city Tenochtitlán was named after Tenoch in around 1325.

Step 2:

• The Aztecs ended up in the middle of a lake and built their new capital Tenochtitlan. What were the pros and cons of settling in the middle of a lake? Describe the lay of the land and chose an image for your exhibit. = Some pros: Some cons: The people had to make chinampas to grow crops. Also they didn’t have many rocks!

Step 3:

• Which gods were worshiped? = Tezcatlipoca (god of the Great Bear constellation and of the night sky), Quetzalcoatl (god of morning and the evening star.), Tlaloc (rain god), Chalchiuhtlicue (water goddess), HUITZILOPOCHTLI (sun and war god), Xipe – Totec (farming god), Coatlicue (earth goddess), Coyolxauhqui (moon god)
• The pyramids were built for what purpose? = To honor the god and to perform sacrifice.

Step 4:

• Who are the different members of Aztec society? = Slaves, commoners, and nobility.
• What are their roles? = Slaves worked in the households of the nobles. Commoners were bust with agriculture and common trade. Nobility were the people that were nobles by birth, priests, and those who earned their rank, they had the top positions in the government and could choose supreme leaders and could tell people what to do.

Step 5:

• The Aztecs have a spoken language. What was it called? = Nahuatl
• Did they use any other forms of communication? = they had a written language!

Step 6:

• How did the Aztecs grow food and what was their main crop? = They grew food on chinampas, also they used the slash and burn method. Their main crop was corn.
• Did they trade and with whom? = With a lot of other trides around the aria all the way to what is now Panama.
• Did they have a currency (money)? = Cacao.

Step 7:

• Discuss the Impact of Spanish Contact 1519 from both the Aztec point of view and the Spanish point of view. = Artec point of view: Cortez came to Tenochtitlan and got power but when he left and Pedro was in charge, he killed us at our festival and then we did not trust Cortez anymore so we went against him, but when he came back he beat us. Cortex view of point: when I first came to Tenchtitan the Aztecs were really nice but after I left Pedro in charge they suddenly got mad at me and so I beat them in a final battle!

Step 8:

• Discuss La Malinche or Dona Marina. Debate her positive/negative impact on Mexico past and present. = La Malinche was a slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress and the mother of the first “Mexican.” negative: she only saved the Indians. positive: she did not join Cortez. Dona Marins, postive: it was she who got Cortez and Moctezuma to have a first meeting. Negative: she became the alter-ego of Cortez.
• What does the term Mestizo refer to? = A person of mixed ancestors.
• What influences remain today from Aztec culture of the past? = dialects and food.

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Hey Every one,

In Social Studies we had to find a current event about something that influenced the world. I did the terorisim attack on the world trade center. This is my summary:

On 11 September 2001 at exactly 08:46 a plane crashed into the north tower of the world trade center in New York. The plane hit the he building around the 95th and 103rd floor. The people on those floors were instantly killed and the people on the floors above had no chance of escaping because their getaway routes were blocked by fires.

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This is a picture that shows what happened:

This all took place in New York, which is located here: