Crusades Project 3

I am having a lot of success with Xtranormal. After today's hectic events, I'm glad that I am using a method that is both fun and easy to work with. And after all, who doesn't love talking pandas? Of course, the computer voice doesn't always pronounce everything right, which can be problematic. But, it is easy to work around this. It is coming out to be pretty much what I had in mind, and I'm trying to make it as funny as possible. All in all, I'm confident that my Xtranormal presentation will be totally awesome (Am I listening to Starkid? No, what gives you that idea....)!

Crusades Project 2

I have been experimenting with a variety of different search engines, from Google in different countries to Yahoo! to Bing. But overally, regular Google works the best. I have been putting my searches in quotation marks so it finds websites that has all the words in the order I want. This has proven extremely useful. Additionally, Google Scholar helped me disover many useful websites. One problem I had with foreign Google was that it was very confusing. google.il for Israel was aligned on the right, which made it confusing. Also I can't read Hebrew.

Crusades Project 1

I have been playing around with Xtra Normal for the past few days, and I have decided to do that for my presentation. That's right, Phil and Arnold are coming back! My main focuses are going to be the Second Crusade, the Peace Crusade, and the Eight Crusade. This may change, but I am probably sticking with these three. They seem to have a strong Muslim opinion based on the little blurbs, and I will be doing more research on them shortly, using the different search engines provided.

Holiday Traditions

Well, this picture was taken before we had completely set up, but this is the Armenian table that I hosted with the help of my friends (who were honorary Armenians for the day). As we learned in class, Christianity spread throughout Asia and Europe and became very popular. Armenia is one of the Christian nations, with pretty much it's entire population consisting of Christians. In fact, it was the first nation to accept Christianity, therefore it was the world's first Christian nation. Armenians also belive that Jesus is the son of God.

Jeopardy!

Well this isn't really incorrect information, but in the "Awesome Post-Classical Era Jeopardy Game", the religion 100 point one is phased as a question, when it should be phrased as an answer. But the information ia still correct. In this game, I got most of the 500 and 400 point questions wrong, except for the one about manors because we played a game about them in class, so it helped me remember. I got most of the 100-300 point questions correct.

In the 3rd game, the economy 100 point question asked what were two places India traded with,and all it said was the subcontinent and the ocean to the south. Not only did they not specify, but India also traded with other places such as China and Africa. They also asked "It takes 2 points to feed these", and the answer was 20 serfs. As creative as this question was, it was irrelevant to the test. In this game, I got a lot more questions right, probably because I had just done the previous game and many of the questions were similar.

In the last game, the first question for Chapter 13 simply says "The Byzantine Empire". There are many possible answers because it is so vague, but the answer talks of the rulers of the empire. If that was what they were looking for, they should have specified. This was simlar to the question that just said "Muhammed", and did not specify what kind of answer they wanted. This again happens with their question "What is King Harsha" and "What ia the caste system". They do not specify what the response should be. Again, this happens in the 300 point Chapter 16 question. Not only that, but it answers the question with another question.

Benedict's Rule

4) These monasteries could be useful because of their rigidity towards worshiping God. People who are worried about going to Hell could follow these rules, therefore the monasteries reduce the amount of crime because criminals would be focusing on these rules in the monasteries. Additionally, these monasteries would be home to genuinely good people, who would probably be willing to do things such as shelter the homeless and feed the poor at these monasteries.

5) Thia tells us that economic times may not have been the greatest, since it warns against stealing. Additionally, there was clearly a large lower class, since it talks about donating to the poor. These rules mostly apply to the middle class. This also gives us insight into the way this class behaves because of the rules it presents to them.

Indian Poetry

These poems do represent Indian society well. The poems discuss Indian culture and religious beliefs. One poem describes the caste system well. Another discusses India's polytheistic view of gods being everywhere and everpresent. I do like these poems; they are very calm and serene, and it gives them a nice tone.