Last blog and unit test of Human Geo

Today is a sad day, we end Human Geo with Mr.Schick. Thankfully this is my last blog and I took my last Human Geo test today. I studied with my dad last night for about 30 minutes and he helped me make up some tricks so that I could memorize information for each of the 5 religions. For example Islam has five letters in it and it follows the 5 pillars, also Hinduism has 1.1 billion adherents and if you connect the ones that makes an H. I think I did pretty well but I was confused about the 7th century question. I do not remember learning about that! In conclusion I will definitely miss Human Geo and it has been a very good first half of the year.

Test review for tomorrow

Tomorrow is our last day of Human Geo:((( and of course we are going to spend it taking a test. Today we spent the class asking Mr. Schick what kind of questions were going to be on the test. We found out that there are 25 questions and each of them ask a question then you bubble in either A,B,C,D,E. Each A,B,C,D,E have a religion assigned to them so the multiple choice answers never change. In conclusion I definitely need to Study Hinduism and Buddhism because I keep getting there information confused. Out of all the religions I think I know christianity the best probably because I am catholic lol. It was very interesting to learn about the different religions that people follow. Also who there founder is and what different types of rules they have to follow in order to be a considered a follower of that religion.

Paragraphs on each major religion

Christianity: 

Christianity is the biggest Religion in the world with just about 2.2 billion adherents. A majority of these adherents are located in Europe, the Americas and Southern Africa. Although all of these people practice Christianity they all do not practice the same denomination of it. In Christianity the most popular denominations are Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants ( Lutherans, Methodists, Baptist, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and many more). All of these denominations have the same base though. They believe in the Bible, Jesus is both divine and human, he is the son of god, he led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried and resurrected. But only catholics have a clergy. The pope is the head of the Catholic Church and priests are local authorities.

Islam:

Islam is the second largest religion in the world with 1.5 billion adherents. The places with the largest number of adherents to Islam is Indonesia, North Africa and The Middle East. Instead of calling them Islam's you would call them Muslims. Unlike Christianity's many denominations Muslims only have 2 different denominations, The Sunnis and The Shiites. The Sunnis make up most of Islam's people with about 75-90% of Muslims and the remainder being Shiites. Both denominations believe that Muhammad was there founder and they follow the Qur'an. They are monotheistic and have the five pillars. Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah (God) and observing Islamic law. 

Hinduism:

Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world with 1.1 billion adherents. We call them Hindus for short and most of their adherents reside in India and Nepal. The holy book that they follow are the Vedas or eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; composed in verse form so that they can be sung, and easily memorized. The four Vedas are Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda, and Atharva-Veda. Hindus have no distinct founder but they have a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view. 

Buddhism:

Buddhism has a large range of numbers of adherents. The range is between 500m million and 1.5 billion Buddhists. Most of these Buddhists live in Southeast Asia, China, Nepal and Japan. There are also 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States alone. They follow there founder Siddhartha Gautama and also have a few denominations like Christianity. Some denominations that they have are Tibetan, Zen, Thereavada and Amidst. They do have two different things that they also believe is a good way to live life, The Four Noble Truths and The Eight Fold Path.

Judaism:

Judaism is the ninth largest religion in the world with 14-18 million adherents. Most of the adherents live in Israel and the United States. They have the Torah and they are monotheism and believe that god is one and is concerned with mankind. They also follow the 10 commandments and 13 principles of faith. 

Bible game

In Human Geo yesterday we played a game where we had to guess whether or not a statement was from the bible or the Qur'an. It was really hard and mr. schick made us get majority right. If we got three wrong then we would have to restart from the beginning. It took the class about 7 or 8 times to complete the test with most of the questions right. Right after we did that I had to leave class so I that I could go to my basketball game at Saint John's Catholic prep. It was a 2 hour drive there and sadly we lost :((((

Hinduism and Buddhism

The founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama who was born in 563 B.C. At age 29 Gautama left his palace one night and lived in a forest for 6 years, thinking and experimenting with forms of meditation. Gautama emerged as the buddha the "awakened or enlightened one"and spent 45 years preaching his views across India which sparked the religion Buddhism. On the other hand, Hinduism has unknown origins. Elements of Hindusim may have originated in the exodus valley civilization which flourished between 2500 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Some rituals from this era survive in contemporary Hinduism, including worship of various gods representing Earth, atmosphere, and sky.

What is going to be on the unit test next week

Next week in Human Geo we have our last test before we switch to western civilization. I am going to list some of the things that we underlined in class from our packet. More than 90 percent of Latin Americans and more than 75 percent of Europeans and North Americans identify themselves as adhering to Christianity. Muslims compromise more othan 90 percent of the population of Central Asia and of southwest Asia and North Africa. In Europe muslims account for 5 percent of the population. France has the largest muslim population about 4 million.

Vedic texts, Martin Luther and Hajj

1. There are four basic Vedic texts in use by Hindus. Give a brief description of each, including how many hymns are in each

The four basic Vedic texts that Hindus use are Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda and Atharva-Veda. Each of the four have a different meaning but somewhat of the same structure. Rig-Veda means "Knowledge of the Hymns of praise" for recitation, Sama-Veda means the "Knowledge of the melodies" for chanting, Yajur-Veda means "Knowledge of the sacrificial formulas" for liturgy, and Atharva-Veda means "Knowledge of the magic formulas" named after a kind of group of priests.
Sama-Veda- 1,549 verses
Yajur-Veda- 1,875 verses
Atharva-veda- 730 hymns
Rig-Veda-1,017 hymns

2. Do some independent research, and in your own words describe the practice of indulgences. Why do you think this made Martin Luther object to indulgences? Please note where your research led you

http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his101/web/37luther.htm

Indulgence is the Roman Catholic Church granting full or partial remission of sins. Martin Luther began to question some of the catholic faith teaches when he was very young. He didn't know if what the priests said could be justified. So he began to write down everything he thought about the catholic church. Then later without telling him someone published his private thoughts and showed everyone. The pope expressed disapproval of him which made him even more mad at the Catholic Church. He was found Quilty of heresy and he refused to accept the charges. Martin Luther did not think that we should be remission for certain types of sin which led to Lutheranism.

3. The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca is called the Hajj. Describe the details of the Hajj, and include a photo of a Hajj in your blog.

The hajj is a place where Islams are expected to walk to at least once in there life. It takes about 5-6 days to complete the journey.