Welcome to Armenia in America!

First off, I'd like to express my utter hatred for Blogger. This is not the first or the second time which I am forced to type this same post, but the THIRD. Being the saint that Blogger is, it preaches to its users that it will randomly save your post as you type to keep it safe. But no. Miraculously, Blogger does not extend this service to me, as it clearly hates me. Not only does Blogger not auto save my drafts, but when I order it to publish my post, it ignores me and signs me out of the website. I HATE YOU BLOGGER. Anyways, for holiday traditions this year, I functioned as an honorary Armenian in order to help my friend work her table based upon Armenian Christmas. Armenian Christianity directly relates to several things we have studied this year. First off, several religions that we have touched upon all developed in the Middle East - conveniently, the Armenian Christian sect developed in this area as well. It directly correlates with our most recent study on Europe in the middle ages and the division of the Christian church based upon differences in the churches in the West and the East - as Armenian Christianity is another sect of Christianity, it represents another division in the church. Lastly, (and quite obviously), this religious sect is immediately related to what we have learned so far in AP World, as due to its Christian base, we have studied its origin in class in that we have learned about its beginnings, the Christian religion in general, and Jesus the prophet. I dislike Blogger - my first two blog posts would have been better.

JeopardyJeopardy

While playing the review games, I am noticing that in terms of the religion category, I am not as strong in the Islam section. Questions on the Indian leader at the time of Islamic invasions (Mahmud) and the word Islam meaning submission are two that I got wrong. In terms of political structure, I need to remember that Charlemagne's officials to bring counts under control were the missi dominici. The bureaucracy of merit in Tang China elected officials based upon examinations...I need to study political structure more.

I found an error! In "that awkward post-classical jeopardy game", under social structure for 200, an error exists in that women were not encouraged to participate in foot binding, but had absolutely no day whatsoever, as foot binding was a form of control. Sorry Heen...

On the "Post-Classical Review" game, an error was found in that the question called for two places that India traded extensively with, when the poor soul to construct the question answered with "the subcontinent and on the ocean to the south" which not only makes literally no sense, but the correct answer is actually China and the Middle East. This was found under economy for 100.

In the same section for 500, the question is wrong because feeding 20 serfs for 2 points is completely unlike feeding literal people to keep them alive. At the same time, having this information will not help me in succeeding on e test. Since this is illegitimate and rules for a game rather than real life, it is wrong.

Sweeeeeeeeet emooootiooooooon!

4. Monasteries that kept to the Rule could be useful to society in the fact that many aided public affairs by acting as orphanages, schools, etc. Additionally, all how participated in the Rule (which was many people, because they were all scaredy cats) would be kept in line and not threatening the public through wrongdoing and crime, as it would be against their religion. Seeing as so many people followed this lifestyle, it probably helped Europe out with their crime rate. Their policy of helping the poor obviously was of great assistance to society, as many people were being aided by these institutions.

5. Of the social structure of the time period, one may guess from the copious amounts of rules that surrounded a monastic lifestyle that social structure was probably very set and carried many requirements of the inhabitants - in this respect I mean that one may wonder that perhaps for certain levels of society, many things were expected of the people who composed them. In terms of the economic structure, one may guess that it was struggling but still pulling up from the depths of the fall of the Roman Empire. This may be drawn from the fact that monks were to give to the poor. If so many people were monks at the time, Europe must have been ridden with the poor. From this, we may guess that perhaps the economy at the time was still pulling itself back up.

Burning down the house...

To be honest, I don't really like these poems. I'm not a huge poetry fan, because it bores me and I don't really understand what they mean. Because of this, I feel unintelligent and I feel as though I am being smited by an inanimate object. Therefore, I don't really like these poems. However, I do think that they reflect Indian society a little bit through their mentioning of the caste system and religious views - such as, according to one poem, their God being everything around them. Caste differences are reflected in the poems by the wording chosen to describe a girl of a lower caste in one of the poems.