Friday, March 12, 2010

Living in Fukushima day 1



I flew from Minneapolis to Tokyo earlier today, on Delta Airlines. My job told me I had to teach in Kawauchi, a small Japanese town in Fukushima Prefecture. As I flew into Tokyo, I was slightly nervous. I had only been to an airport in Japan before, and as I got my connecting flight in Japan to Fukushima Airport, I was not sure what I would do. Luckily, when I got to the airport, among the crowd I saw a board with my name, George Richards. I walked to the board and introduced myself to the man holding it, Mr. Nagamasa. He bowed and said "Hello. I am Kobayakawa Kintaro Nagamasa, but please call me Mr. Nagamasa." I bowed and introduced myself too, and he drove me to Kawauchi, a small town in the heart of the prefecture.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Collapse Theory(new and improved)




The Maya were a very great empire, that spanned a long amount of time. They managed for themselves very nicely, yet they suddenly collapsed. Nobody knows why this happened, but
here is my theory.
(Copan jungle)
My opinion is that the Maya were starved to death from the rainforest dying out. This combines with another theory in saying that the Maya then overfarmed the land. In that case, the erosion would be proved true because overfarming caused erosion. Since they might not have known what the erosion was coming from, they would have left their cities, possibly even believing the erosion was a sign from the gods, and moved into the jungle, and then starved out.
(Eroded area)
However, in the Copan valley, there are still about the same number of people descended from the Maya as there were Maya then, which means that the starvation might not have been that bad.

(Maya Skull from Copan)



Thursday, October 22, 2009

Nazca video

The Nazca

This is one of the Nazca Line drawings in the ground. They were supposed to please the sky gods. This is a monkey.
Another drawing
A headless bird!
A Nazca monkey on a pot.

Rock formation in Paracas Land

The Paracas Tribe

paracas_picture.jpg (307×402)This is a sort of Paracas tapestry. It depicts sme sort of bird-like animal. It probably was one of their gods.
Here is some gold from the Paracas tribe. It is a broken fragment of something that looks like a pot
This is the small territory of the Paracas Land.
This is a very large piece of Paracas pottery. It is shaped like a body.
This is a crazy Paracas skull. They probably did surgery on this skull to make it like this. The Paracas might be the first to perform surgery.

Nice video on the Chavin