What is a Civilization?

This week we will continue our Mini Society project with a study of civilizations. Your posts this week should be reactions (see suggestions below) to the following videos:

Crash Course: World History (The Agricultural Revolution)
Crash Course: World History ( The Indus Valley)
Crash Course World History (Mesopotamia)

How to write a reaction 

Blog Post Reaction Part 1 

 Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret (V) its significance (V). You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).  

Reaction Part 2 

The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source. Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.