Reveiw

In class we have just been reveiwing precious tests and preparing for the exam.

rome reveeiw

Today in class we reveiwed some previous homework.  We started highlighting a worksheet and getting to know important things to prepare for the upcoming test

Rome Worksheet

Define:
Diocletian-a strong-willed army leader and son of a slave. 

Constantine- four emperors and were competing for power and he was one of the younggest


Eastern empire - Greek speaking,  and had  alot of the great cities and trade centers of the empire. 

Western empire- Latin speaking, not as good as the eastern empire

Edict of Milan- the man who made Christianity a religion that was approved  by the emperor.
Constantinople: thus, the center of empire shifted from west to east, there was a new capital that was protected by massive walls and gleamed with stately buildings. They city even had a new name Constantinople. 

Huns- was advancing past Rome 

Attila- Leader of the Huns that made them even better and more threatening


Leo I- the very first powerful pope of Rome.




1. Trade, Farms were failing, money and armies to protect them.  They needed these things to keep the economy going


2. Goths repeatedly overran the legions guarding the Danube frontier. Roman soldiers now fought strictly for money not for patriotism etc... 


3. a.  He brought out Christianity
   b.  He brought together the eastern and western empire


4. The Huns were moving west, and destroyed the western half of the Roman empire.  The empire was unprepared and fell apart. 


5.  a. brought together the eastern and western empires, doubled size of roman armies, and he used price and wage control so the costs were fixed and reasonable
    b. wages for new troops added to taxing, price control failed, and then he just retired. 

Rome Essay

Today in class we had our Rome empire vs republic essay reviewed by our peers.  Then we re-edit them and will print it out again tonight and turn then in tomorrow.  Hopefully i did ok on it, I think my essay is good an should get a good grade on it.

Rome Reveiw

Today in class we studied and reviewed the main roman leaders. We will probably have a text soon.

Video

In class instead of taking notes on the computer we are taking them on paper.  I wish we still took them on the computer because it is easy to file all my notes in one spot and post them on my blog. In class we are starting to watch a video on the new government and leaders and wars since Octavian was killed.

Test

On friday we took a test. It was a little bit challenging .. but overall not bad.  Hopefully i did well on it.

Rome powerpoints

• First 3 groups that started settling in Rome
• Latin's
• Greeks
• Etruscans 

• No more tyrants

• No more kings

• Plebians general people
• Consul highest elected office
• Two of them
• One could veto the other

• Republic

• Democracy
• Citizens had equal saying in their decisions

• Aristocracy
• Rich and powerful rule

• Legion
• Roman army

• Gracchus Brothers
• People think they are threats
• Think they will take other peoples lands

• Caesar
• Conquered Gaul and coming towards Rome,  passes the Rubicon

• Triumvirate
• Crassus
• Pompeii
• Caesar

• Octavian adopted son of Caesar
• Got revenge on people who killed Julius Caesar

• Second triumvirate
• Mark Antony
• Octavian
• Lepidus

Rome powerpoints

• First 3 groups that started settling in Rome
• Latin's
• Greeks
• Etruscans 

• No more tyrants

• No more kings

• Plebians general people
• Consul highest elected office
• Two of them
• One could veto the other

• Republic

• Democracy
• Citizens had equal saying in their decisions

• Aristocracy
• Rich and powerful rule

• Legion
• Roman army

• Gracchus Brothers
• People think they are threats
• Think they will take other peoples lands

• Caesar
• Conquered Gaul and coming towards Rome,  passes the Rubicon

• Triumvirate
• Crassus
• Pompeii
• Caesar

• Octavian adopted son of Caesar
• Got revenge on people who killed Julius Caesar

• Second triumvirate
• Mark Antony
• Octavian
• Lepidus

Rome- Chi Cago

Carthage

Cleopatra 

Collesium 

Julius Ceaser

Lepidus

Octavian

Pompeii

Legion

Rome

Rubicon River

Tiber River

Rome Questions 2

Consul- like kings, commanded army and directed government

Veto- consul can always overrule other's decisions

Senate-aristocratic branch of Rome's government

Assembly- democratic side of Roman government

Dictator-leader who had absolute power to make laws and command the army

Mercenary- soldiers who fight in any country's army for pay

1. The plebeians were dis satisfied because it wasn’t a republic but more of a dictatorship.  They won reforms by veto's.  They wanted to change the government to a democracy.

2. They considered they had a balanced government  because they had one leader who got them through things, and they had mixtures of other governments.

3. They gained the support by giving them the name of half-citizens and all rights except voting.

4. Carthage was three times the size of Rome, rich and had huge armies.

Rome had more than 500,000 troops. They were very loyal.

5. If Rome would not have won, their government, cultures, laws  would not have been passed.

6.  Rome freed them.  Rome stopped people that were against the leaders and people favored Rome. 

Rome Questions

Vocab:

1. Republic-  a political unit that is not ruled by a monarch and in which citizens with the right to vote choose their leasers.
2. Gravitas-  weightiness or seriousness

3. Pater familias-   "father of the family"

4. Toga- outfits they wore, cloth wrapped around them, uncomfortable.

5. Patrician (class)-  specially privileged families

6. Plebeian-   common farmers, artisans, and merchants

Questions:

1. The geography is important because Rome is located midway between the alps and Italy's southern tip.  An ideal position to send out ships and armies in all directions. 

2. These groups were important to Rome's development
1. Latin's-  they wandered across the alps into Italy around 1000 B.C.  Rome began as a settlement of Latin shepherds.  Only a few trade goods from the outside world reached their country. 
2. Greeks-  settlers from Greece established 50 colonies on the coast of southern Italy and Sicily.  These active cities brought all of Italy, and Rome, closer with the Greek civilization
3. Etruscans- much more civilized than Latins,  they had a writing system, they had great cultural influence of Latins. 

3. Had an influence of Roman religious ideas, polytheists. Spirits that helped them with their everyday life, bringing food or helping with sickness.
4. Household belonged exclusively to one person, pater familias, or the father of the family, eldest man.  Women did not have any freedoms.

5. The Roman society was divided into classes. The soldiers in the army were superior, and played a very important role in society by protecting the people from enemies and attacks.

Today in class we took our test.  It was  a little bit challenging and some of specific questions.. but overall not bad.  Hopefully i did well on it. The essay was easy because i did the allegory of the cave and that story was interesting to me do i remembered all of it.  And i drew a picture with it, so i should get extra credit !

Ancient Greek Test Reveiw

Today in class we reviewed what is going to be on the test.

• The three orders of architecture
• Doric
• Corinthian
• Ionic

• Frieze
• Decorative statues

• 508 BC
• People first revolted against their leaders

• Ancient Greek sculptures made of
• Limestone
• Bronze
• Marble

• Main Greek architecture
• Architectures, sculpture painting painted poetry and music

• Philosophers
• Socrates
• Interested in knowledge and ethics
• Looked at the big picture- right and wrong; good and evil
• Asked people what they knew;  questioned people- Socratic method
• Charged with corruption of the youth of Athens and disrespecting the gods
• His sentence was death by hemlock poisoning
• Plato
• He thought the philosophers should be in charge
• Allegory of the cave
• Aristotle
• Plato's student
• Founded logical theory
• Happiness is the goal to life

• Peloponnesian war
• Who, what, where, when, why

• Greek Drama
• Masks
• The scheme

• Archimedes
• Found the volume by putting something in water
• Used levy's and pulleys to move things

Presentations 4

Amir Parker- 96 ( he had a lot of technical difficulties but he did a good with all the information and it was interesting ) 

• How did alexander die?
• When alexander died this marked the beginning of the Hellenic age
• His empire was divided into four kingdoms

• How did they dived the 4 kingdoms?
• 3 Punic wars

• Who were the Punic wars fought between?

Sick

Yesterday i was sick so i couldn't get any notes from the projects.  I know that more people did their presentations.

Presentations 3

Emily Stasuk - 96 (had very good information for notes and interesting)

1. How did he meet Plato?

2. Did Socrates sort of create public schools?

3. What was democratic thinking?

• Socrates
• Mother was a midwife
• Collected random data from subjects that he met
• Asked people questions that angered people
• What is wisdom?
• What is beauty?
• What is the right ting to do?
• Proposed radical thinking
• Non democratic thinking made people angry
• Charges against him
• Corruption of the young's mind

• Peloponnesian war
• Between Sparta and Athens
• Athenians lost
• Socrates against war

• Trial
• Socrates sentenced to death
• Poisoned with Hemlock
• 500 people that  voted whether he was guilty or not.

Rachel Weskalnies - 98 ( made it interesting, took time to make a Parthenon, and had a video

1. Why were temples built to see from the outside?

2. Why do they have different orders of  Greek architecture ?
3. Why did they build the Parthenon in Doric order, was there a reason?

• Built temples, tombs, stadiums…

• Doric Order
• Plain , sturdy, heavy columns
• Parthenon

• Ionic order
• Lender, scroll like

• Corinthian order
• Ornate, bell shaped tops decorated

• Still used in home today

Elena Fernandez- 92 ( had a lot of information on specific poets, could have had more about the culture and how it was affected )

1. What time period was Iliad an Odyssey written?

2. What time period was the new testament written

3. Who was the first European poet ?

• Attend poetry readings

• Some poets this was there job, others did it for fun

• Archilious
• Wrote a poem so mean that the father and daughter that it was about hung themselves

• Homer was the first European poet

• Hesiod
• Very little is known about is life
• No records

• Pindar
• 44 of his poems are preserved

• Sappha
• First women poet
• Wrote about disputes with her brothers

Cole Alban- 95( did a good job, knew his information well, very interesting)

1. Why whas the Age of Pericles aka golden age of Greece?

2. Why did they call it that is the first place?

3. What is the  Achremedes screw

• Age of Pericles aka golden age of Greece

• Pericles was an aristocrat
• Started and ended the Golden age
• Built the Parthenon
• On the acropolis
• Become a cultural center of Greece
• Built on the ruins of temples that were burned down 20 years before
• Started Peloponnesian War

• Had many scientific breakthroughs
• Achremedes screw
• Aqueducts and Bridges 

Presentations 2

Colleen McCormick -92 ( Had a lot of information but was good.  A little long)

1. Why was Pythagoras of Samos captured by Persian king?

2. Why did Socrates  not write anything down?
1. Always asking people what they knew
2. Believed knowledge was an interactive thing
3. "The unexamined life is not worth living"

3. Why did none of Thales writings survive?

• Greek philosophers explore nature in rational, way make educated guesses, everything is tied together

• Aristotle founded logic and reason
• Reason in theoretical activity

• Need to pursue knowledge even when opposed

• Allegory of the cave

• Epicureans
• Happy if you had more pleasure and less sadness
• Stop wanting things
• Things happened by natural and scientific causes not God

Amir Parker- 95 (he did a good job even though he technical problems )

• Alexander the great Mixed cultures together

• Toga is most common outfit of that age

Presentations

Emily Waite-  99 ( she did great and didn’t just read right off the page she was well informed and she brought in pie ! )

1. How were these people taught?

2. Where were they educated  and by whom?

3. What is zoology? 

Rita Watson- 92( she knew what she was talking about on most things, and had a lot of information)

1. Why isn't there more info on homer and his background?
1. He was believed to maybe not exist because of such little information on him

2. How did homer write them down if he was blind?
1. Hard to believe homer wrote them by himself
2. None of his writing styles were found in his poems

3. How many other books did homer write, if any?

Class Today

today in class we got with a partner.  We looked at each other's blog and gave coments.  We helped each other improve what we had to prepare for presenting them in from of the class.

TEST

Today we took a test in Western Civ. Today.  It was open note but we could only look at our blog.  It was kind of easy so I think I did pretty well on it.  There is not much more to say on what we did today because all we did was take the test.   That was the last test of the third quarter.  Not sure what else to write because this has to be about one hundred words.  So hopefully this paragraph will be about one hundred words.  So I hope this is good enough to get full credit !(:

Ancient Greek Movie 5

• Athenians were now looking for a new leader
• Pericles
• Leader at the height of power
• Wanted to glorify Athens
• Liked democracy
• Even thought he was a rich aristocrat
• Wanted to make a city fit to rule an empire
• Wanted Athens to be the best city in Greece

• Acropolis
• They temples that used to stand there were burnt down by the Persians many years a go
• Pericles wanted to reconstruct a Parthenon

• Parthenon
• Parthenon , in its time, was the most beautiful building ever built
• Today it would cost a billion dollars to build
• Put many people to work- artisans, builders, etc…
• Would require 20 thousand tons of marble
• First thing you see is a statue that is bigger than this school
• Frieze chiseled partial statue
• Everyone that shows up to Athens is astonished when they see it

• Aspasia
• Pericles - prostitute
• Relationship was frowned upon
• Pericles treat her as an equal
• Pericles was still married
• He completely falls in love with her
• She is an intelligent, bright, and charming
• Ended up getting married with her after he divorced his wife

• Worlds first theatre lies in the center of the acropolis
• Home of popular entertainment
• Some stories  were about a man marrying his own mother and having children
• Greeks invented drama
• Fatal flaw- otherwise very good people making very bad decisions, falling from the heights in some aspect of their life.

• Oedipus
• Early age was taken away from his parents
• Lived his life and achieved greatness
• Solved the mystery of the sphinx

• Greek tragedies showed what they were thinking about and what kind of things they made plays about showed them who they were.
• Pericles - a man with a fatal flaw
• Hubris- arrogance and pride
• 431 B.C  -wants to go to war with Sparta, only city state that still matched Sparta with power