World History

In the beginning of the semester we made bricks from mud and structures from bamboo and twine. We made the bricks by adding water to mud and stomping on it until it became a paste that we then put into a mold to form the brick shape. The bricks dried in the sun and made solid mud bricks, many of the civilizations made houses out of mud bricks. The structures we made incorporated engineering, we used machetes to cut the bamboo and twine to put it together.

The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of food, diseases, people, religion, and animals from one hemisphere to the other. The class was split in two and then assigned a hemisphere, each group either got the eastern or western hemisphere. Once you were separated into your two hemispheres they were then split into another two groups. Depending on which hemisphere you got decided which foods you got to cook with. I was assigned the eastern hemisphere so I was allowed to cook with honeybee products, oats/wheats, sugarcane, animal products, and etc. The project helped me to understand how hard it was to make food and make food more interesting/tasty.