Martha

Mayan collapse

2008-11-06T19:12:00.000-08:00

I think that the reason the Mayans at Copan collapsed was because of they overused the soil. When the Mayans were farming they didn't know that each crop they planted required certain vitamins, and after years and years of planting the same crop in the same spot all the vitamins they needed to grow their food were sucked out. So as the soil lost it's vitamins the corn began to die, and the people began to starve. The farmers today say that they have to plant corn every year, and the land has no time to rest, with around the same number of people to feed. I think that it would make sense that the corn would die and the Mayans would lose most of their food supply. The evidence from a lot of the skulls people have found say that most of the people died from malnourishment, which would make sense if their crops died. Corn can also cause an iron deficiency, or amenia, which was found in many of the skulls of the Mayans, so they could have really relied on it. The unfinished monuments that the Mayans left could have been from all the carvers dying, and losing their energy so they can't work as long as they would have been able to. Over-farming could have produced the erosions that destroyed their houses, and hundreds of years later after the soil had rejuvenated forests could have developed.

My Visits to Peru

2008-10-22T12:52:00.000-07:00

I just got back from ancient Peru!
Notes:
Appearence of the Chimu-1000 a.d.
The Chimu Culture Established-1200
The Chimu Conquer Moche Area-1375
The Inca takeover Southern Coast-1460
The Inca conquer Northern Andes to Ecuador-1465
While in Peru i visited Machu Pichu

moche, secun, inca, chimu

Vice Presidential Debates

2008-10-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

I think that Joe Biden and Sarah Palin were right in that people are worried about sending their kids to college and their small businesses are scared right now and that we need to turn the economy around. I think that Sarah Palin was only looking at the surface arguments, and that she can't blame Obama for doing something that McCain also did. I think that we need to look at the reasons they might have voted for a tax raise and it might have been something very important that we needed to happen, but I don't think that raising taxes to spend on the war is worth it, and even if we don't pay them now, the next generation will 30 years from now and they'll be stuck with all the debt to China. I also think deregulation is not the answer because it caused this problem, and if they thought it would work and it didn't how can we trust them to handle the economy.

I think that we need to have a timeline. I think that there really isn't a reason to have a war anymore, and we need to have an end date. I also think that Sarah Palin's arguments make no sense at all because she's saying what Obama did wrong even though McCain also made the same mistakes. I also think that if our leaders talked before they started a war it would be much easier to end the problems nonviolently. I think that refusing to meet with them is rude, and self-centered.

I think that the $5000 doesn't come from now where we'll be paying for it anyways. I do think we should make health care more affordable. I think that giving a $5000 dollars to the insurance companies won't cover people, and that we have to have a different plan. I agree with Obama that everyone deserves health care. I think that it's not a matter of money it's a matter that health care is necessary for everybody no matter how much money they have.

How to Fix the Economy

2008-09-25T11:32:00.000-07:00

We need to fix the economy, and we need a better plan. I think that we should start over. I think however our banks started in the first place, we should try to repeat this and start from scratch. If we use 700,000,000,000 thats coming from now where it's just going to lower the value of the dollar, and we'll go through another depression, and eventually China's going to get fed up with us and stop lending us money.