The Cuerdale Hoard

The treasure is displayed in the British Museum

The Cuerdale Hoard is a chest of treasure found in 1840 by a group of workers

Not everything in the chest was coins there were also chains and clasps

Most of the chest was filled with coins

Silent Trade

          The silent trade is a form of trading that was used between Ghana and northern African kingdoms that had salt. Because Ghana had an abundance of gold but not much salt so they were willing to trade pound for pound. There was a problem though because the people Ghana was trading with didn't speak the same language so they participated in what we know as a silent trade. One of the sides participating in the trade would set their goods in a specific area, then they would leave and start beating drums so that the other party would know they had set their goods out. Then the other party would come look at what was set out and put what they thought was a good trade out next to the other parties goods. Then they would leave and beat on their drums. If the first party thought it was a good trade they would take the goods but if they didn't they would leave and beat their drums again. this went on until a deal was made.

Different types of farm irrigation

There are multiple different types of irrigation

Surface
            This is where you cover the surface of you crops with water, it is also called flood irrigation

Localized
            This is where water is distributed through pipes to specific locations, there are a few sub catagories of localized irrigation

        Drip
             The water is in a tube that drips water out through small holes in the hose.

       Sprinkler system
              Sprinkler system is pretty self explanitory but there are even more sub catagories of the sprinkler system

                 Center Pivot Sprinkler
                      The hoses come together in one place where the water sprays out and circles around so as to get water everywhere


                Lateral momvent
                     These sprinklers move along a black hose and spray of to the side, so if you put the black hose around the parimeter of your crop it will go around the edges and water everything    
      

More Viking stuff

I am here today to tell you 10 Facts about Vikings

1. Vikings did not wear horned helmets


 2. Vikings actually kept themselves quite clean


3. Important vikings were buried in boats


4. Viking women had some basic rights


5. When viking men weren't raiding they were most likely farming at home


6. Viking men would die there hair blonde because that was the prefered hair style


7. Vikings would go skiing for recreation


8. Vikings didn't really intereact with other vikings outside of their village


9. Viking were active in slave tradeing


10. A big viking meeting was called "The Thing"

Pros and Cons of eating Legume

According to the paleo diet one should not eat Legumes (beans, peas, lentils etc.) because they have high concentration of anti-nutrients like lectins and phytates which apparently reduces their nutritional value to very little. Research has however shown this to be untrue, it has been proven that the benifits of beans outweighs the anit-nutrient content.

Beans have lots of healthy nutrients that our bodies need.
B vitamins
Calcium
Potassium
Folate
Protein
Fiber

Interviewing a farmer

My assingment for the week was to interview a farmer so I picked my friend Bevan Messiner.


Here are the questions I asked and his answers.  Q = Question     B= Bevan


Q What resource do you produce the most of?

B For consumers: Eggs For self use: Rabbits


Q What made you decide to be a famer?

B It was forced upon me


Q How much work is done by machines?

B Very little to none. The only thing we use machines for is bailing hay


Q How much land do you own?

B 50 acres


Q How long has the farm been in your family?

B 2 years


Q What is your favorite part of farming?

B probably the horses


Q How do you chose which products to grow?

B Out of necesity, last winter we didn't have enough feed hay for our horses and cows so that got expansive so now we grow our own.


Q Do you use herbicides/pesticides?

B No sir


Q Do you use fertilizer? What kinds?

B Yes, if you count manure.





That concluded my interview.

The Wars of the Roses

           The wars of the roses was a civil war in England between reletives in the royal family. The Lancastians who had a red rose on their flag and the Yorks who had a white rose on their flag. The war of the roses started when Henry VI was the king. Henry VI was a very good man. However after being the king years, he went mad. He wouldn't talk to anyone, he would sit in one place looking at nothing for hours he didn't seem to hear when people came and talked to him. It is beleived that Henry VI inherited the maddness from his grandfather who had suffered from fits of insanity his whole life. Since Henry VI was in no state to rule a country his family asked his distant cousin, the duke of York, to temperally take the throne until Henry VI got better. But, when Henry VI's health started to improve the duke of York did not want to give up the throne. So Henry VI and his wife got an army together and attacked the dukes army. The York army was defeated and Henry VI took the throne back. But the York family was not done trying to get the throne. The dukes son Edward raised an army, defeated Henry VI, threw him in jail and took over the throne. Edwared was a good king but he decided to marry a girl from another family, he also gave her brothers positions with power. People didn't like that so they let Henry VI out of jail and attacked Edward. Edward found out about the attack and ran away. Henry VI had the throne yet again but Edward wasn't finished, he raised up another army and came back for the throne. He defeated Henry VI put him in jail, and then Henry VI was murdered while he was in jail. Edward reigned for 12 uniterrupted years until his death. After he died the one who was next up for the throne was his 12 year old son, but he was too young so his uncle Richard took the throne and named himself the king of England. Richard was king for only 2 years when he was attacked by his cousin Henry Tudor. Henry beat Richard and the wars of the roses were over.