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.