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Video Summaries
By: Taylor Holguin
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Little Ice Age: Big Chill• The “Little Ice Age”
began sevencenturies ago
• In 1653, a monstercame upon thevillage of Montesaytownspeople believeonly God can savethem from the “titanicriver of ice”
• They also believethat the glaciers arepossessed and havepriests sprinkle holywater on them
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Little Ice Age: Big Chill• New York Harbor froze
for five weeks• During June and July of
the Little Ice Age, two feetof snow fell in England!
• One historian believesthat the reason for this iceage is because there wasless radiation from thesun
• Sulfur deposits inpreserved ice from115,000 years agoindicates that there wereabout 5 volcaniceruptions each century.
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BBC:The Story of GodEpisode 1
• In Yazd, Southern Iranthere has been a sacredfire that has supposedlybeen burning for the last2,000 years
• It is the priests job to tendit, and he has to wear amask in case his breathpollutes the flame
• Supposedly in order toplease the gods, you mustgive the best thing that youhave.
• Aztecs sacrifice was givinggod a beating heart…
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BBC:The Story of GodEpisode 1
• People have come up withnumerous different types ofgods
• People believe in God/gods tobe involved in somethinggreater than oneself
• In the Gargas caves, one ofthe caves that a historiannamed John has exploredshows that the caves are thefirst churches due to the factof several different paintingsand carvings within the caves;the most interesting artconsists of several differenthandprints that have fingersmissing...
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Cracking the Maya Code• Their cities were full of
hieroglyphics• The mystery is whether
these hieroglyphicswere just pictures or ifthere was somethingmore behind them
• A friar by the name ofDiego felt thathieroglyphics were atool of the Devil. Hewanted to convert it toCatholicism.
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Cracking the Maya Code• A woman by the
name of Tatianareconstructed theMayan temples onpaper, eventuallythese were actuallybrought to life.
• She came to theconclusion that thestelae told the storyof the lives ofdifferent ruins.
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Journey of Man• This story is about a
man named SpencerWells and his journeythat brings bothexcitement and fear tohim.
• He starts in Africa• The information of
history comes fromblood
• States over and overthat blood is the “timemachine”
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Journey of Man• His belief is that the human
race began in Africa theneventually spread to therest of the world
• He visits the tribe of theSan Bushman to helpanswer some of hisquestions
• Humans were able to adaptall over
• Supposedly the reasonAfricans have darker skinthan others is because theywere exposed to moresunlight
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Catastrophe!• David Keys believes
that there was sometype of climaticcatastrophe thatoccurred whichchanged our world.
• He attempts to digdeeper into histheory to findevidence that sometype of catastrophedid indeed occur.
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Catastrophe!• The rings within trees
were used for researchand evidence of what theweather was like.
• During the sixth centurythe narrowing of the treerings suggest that theclimate was extremelycold.
• Another theory Keys cameup with is that an asteroidhit the earth
• Comets consist of gas andice (another theory Keystested)
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Engineering and Empire:The Maya
• The Mayans wereextremely resourceful andbecame masters of theenvironment they lived in
• The Mayan had powerfulrulers, in the names of thegods, which at times let tocompetition andunfortunately war
• Human blood was themost sacred way for theMayans to repay theblood debt that they owedthe gods
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Engineering and Empire:The Maya
• Kan Bahlam and Pacal, hisfather, ruled for 100 yearsand pushed engineering toa new level
• Scholars believe that thereason, although manydifferent reasons aredebated and there truly isnot one specific reason,that the Mayan’s implosionis because of anenvironmental catastrophe
• “Scabes” or white roadswere causeways somebeing up to around 60miles long! “They were amarvel of engineering.”