In Class 6-2-11

Well, I'm not in class for the next few days but I'm keeping up with whatever I can from Mr. Schick's website

In Class 6-1-11

In class today we went over the answers on the quiz thing that I missed on Friday.

In Class 5-25-11

We started off class by reviewing the Rome test, sadly not all of us got A's so we can't shave Mr. Schick's head. But that's no big deal, then we got a packet to read and do answers on.

The answers were:

Inflation: A huge increase in the price of something

Diocletian: A Roman emperor from 284 to 305

Constantine: He was a Roman emperor and sometimes considered a saint because he was the first emperor to convert to Christianity.

Eastern Empire: Was the most prosperous side of the empire

Western Empire: The less-prosperous side of the empire

Edict of Milan: A letter signed by Constantine that dealt with religious tolerance

Constantinople: The imperial capital of the Roman empire

Huns: A group of people that migrated into Europe in AD 370

Attila: The ruler of the Huns

Leo I: An emperor over eastern Rome

Romulus Augustulus: The final western Emperor in 475-476

Odoacer: The king of Italy who basically ended the empire

1. Trade routes, treasuries and agriculture all dried up so Rome could no longer rely on themselves 
2. The military changed from a group of people fighting for a cause, it became a group of people just looking for a paycheck and unreliable barbarians
3. Constantine ended persecution of Christians, ordered the men of the military to have a cross put on they're sheilds
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In Class 5-23-11

In class today we went over our essays, and now we're onto our final drafts

My Study Guide for the Test

• Romans were harsh toward those who would not worship the emperor 
• Christians were thought of more of a cult
• People that didn't worship the emperor were sometimes thrown into the Colosseum with the lions for entertainment 
• Even though Christians were treated like this, by A.D. 200 Christianity made up 10% of the Roman Empire
• The Roman Republic had a Senate and Console
• The Roman Republic had Democracy, Monarchy, and Aristocracy 
• Latins, Etruscans, and Greeks were the first to get into Rome
• A legion was the military formation
• A legion consisted of about 60 centuries 
• A century was a group within the legion 
• There were about 80 people per century
• A legion was a better war formation than the Greek phalanx because they could move in all directions
• Paul was who spread Christianity, even though before that he criticized it
• In order, the emperors were: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius 
• Basically, only Augustus and Claudius were good emperors
• Tiberius and Caligula were bad emperors 

In Class 5-16-11

• Augustus died at age 76 in A.D. 14
• After he died, power was handed to Tiberius
• Tiberius said that the Senate was "men fit to be slaves"
• Tiberius and Germanicus were allies 
• After years, Tiberius became so paranoid that Germanicus was going to succeed, so he had him killed
• Tiberius was 77 years old when he died in A.D. 37 
• Caligula was Germanicus' son and Tiberius' adopted grandson
• Being the Tiberius' adopted grandson, he was next in line to be emperor 
• He started off good as emperor, giving the military bonuses, and made government spending a public thing
• After a while, he started fighting with the Senate
• Claimed that he was a God
• Had statues of himself posted all over the place, including in a Jewish temple
• Putting a statue in a Jewish temple was wrong because he was basically making fun of the Jews
• He was assassinated by his own aids in A.D. 41 at age 28
• After the assassination, Claudius was next in line
• He had birth defects
• People criticized him when he was a child
• After people found out that he was the last person in line after Caligula, they became a lot nicer then them
• He was expected to be a horrible leader
• Instead, he did things that Ceasear  couldn't
• He took over Britain
• Renovated the Circus Maximus 
• He had a bad wife who cheated on him all the time
• She plotted to take power from Claudius, and give it to her other lover
• Before this went through, Claudius had Messalina and her lover killed
• In 66 A.D. a group of Jews called the Zealots tried to rebel
• Roman troops shot their rebellion down and burnt down the temple
• Everything in the temple burned except for one wall
• The Western Wall is the one wall that didn't burn and it is the holiest of all Jewish shrines 
• Half a million Jews died in the rebellion
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In Class 5-9-11

In class today we went over the Greek and Rome tests. I didn't do so well but since I got the tests back for the final I think I'll do fine

In Class 4-29-11

We listened to Mr. Schick's rap. It was AWESOME. Here are the pictures:

Caesar being stabbed
                                                  

Lepidus

Mark Antony

GLADIATOR FIGHTS!

Hannibal just chilling.

No more kings!

Horseback fighting. No big deal 

Rome

ITS THE HAMBURGLAR!!!!!!

Thats a bad war

In Class 4-28-11

In class we took ANOTHER pop quiz, which was alright I guess even though I failed horribly. After the quiz, we started talking about the answers, which helped because I knew like, four out of ten. Since we had tornado warnings all throughout the day we had a pretty shortened class so the quiz and going over it is all we did.

In Class 4-27-11

Today in class we didn't do much big. Mostly all we did was talk about what we learned about Rome in our reading. And oh yea, we took a pop quiz

In Class 4-26-11

In class today we ended our chapters on Greece and began to move on to Rome. Since Mr. Schick was all sick and such we had to read about Rome and of course, my computer decides not to work with the PDF file that was sent, so it took an extra 15 minutes just for me to start. After the reading there were questions on it, but since I couldn't get it to my computer I had to write it all down.

Republic: A political unit NOT ruled by a monarch, but is ruled by a leader chosen by the people. NOT a democracy because a republic votes for representatives and a democracy votes straight to the leaders

Gravitas: A virtue someone has if they are discipline, strong, and loyal


Pater Familias: "Father of the Family" He had power over his whole family and legally could kill someone in his family if need be.


Toga: A loose outer garment that basically drapes over the person


Patrician: A specially family, known to be a very privileged class. They believed that they are born from the founders of Rome.


Plebeian: A common person like a farmer, artisian, or a merchant


Legion: A massive military unit, consisting of 4 to 6 thousand men


Century: A sub group within the legion holding around 80 people per group and a legion consisted of 60 centuries


Italy: The peninsula that holds the city-state of Rome


Rome: A very successful city-state inside of Italy


Romulus: One of the twins, parented by the god Mars, and Rhea Silvia. Him and his brother Remus were put in a basket to float down the Tiber River in hopes that they would drown.


Palatine Hill: The hill that Romulus chose to be the center of Rome


Alps:


Tiber River: The river that the jealous Latin King set Romulus and Remus down to kill them


Apennines: A lower mountain range running down the length of Italy


Latins: People that walked across the Alps in 1000 B.C. and settled on either side of the Tiber River


Etruscans: Another group of wanderers that settled in Northern Italy between 1200 B.C. and 800 B.C.


Forum: The heart of Roman political life


#1: Geography was so important to Rome because Italy is right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, so basically it was a trading gold mine. Also being right on the shore was important because they could then see oncoming threats from the sea against them.

#2: Greeks, Latins, and Etruscans are all important to Roman development because it took pieces of all three customs to make one great one, like what Alexander the Great did.

#3: Early Rome had a set of values that dealt mainly with strength, loyalty, and discipline.

#4: Roman households the same in most houses. The men were the leaders of the house and did what they wanted, and the women was respected, and kept things moving around the house and cooked and such.

#5: Roman army effected society because all men were required to join.

Alexander the Great Pt. 2

• Alexander went through his entire life without ever losing a battle
• Myth says it that whenever something important in Alexanders life, a hawk flies above
• Alexander's army fought so much harder because they actually fought for what they wanted, not just a paycheck like the Persians
• Alexander was king of everything at age 25
• After conquering Persia, they accepted him as a leader because he began to blend cultures, not just wipe everything else out
• Darius got killed by his own commanders because of his vicious acts against his own people
• Alexander began to hunt for the commanders that killed Darius 
• Alexander got 10 cities named after himself through his journey
• Alexander began to cross through into India to take over the whole world
• Darius got shot by an arrow, but survived

Alexander the Great

• His mother was Olympus
• Olympus told Alexander that his real father was Achilles
• Alexander was tutored by Aristotle 
• Philip of Macedon was Alexanders real father  
• Alexander took over when he was only 20
• Alexander rode Beuseffelis when he was a young boy, no one else could do it 
• Alexander lead in the Battle of Gaugamala 
• Alexander was outnumbered 6 to 1 in this battle
• Its believed that Darius The Great got the money to get Alexanders father killed
• Alexander went after Darius and the Persian Empire after the murder of his father
• They used to take out the intestines of  a bull before and read them to see the future
• Their war formation was called Phalenx and it is still taught today

Last Questions on Presentations

Katie:

1. Who were the first main philosophers? Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
2. Who was the first philosopher in western civilization? Socrates. 
3. What did Socrates try to spread to people? Caring for the soul is the most important thing in life, a good person cannot be harmed by other people, and its important to know who we are. 

100% because it separated each philosopher and what big things each of them did. 

Even More More Questions on Presentations

Emma:

1. What was the multi-sport thing in the Olympics? Pentathlon 
2. What was the reward for winning? A crown of olive leaves and a statue of them at Olympia 

95% 

Jeffy: 

1. What were the first structures made out of? Wood
2. Where were Ionic columns made? Ionian islands 

90% because it just had facts. No fun

Cole: 

1. Why did Sparta attack Athens? Because they feared Athens was becoming too strong
2. What did Athens lose from this war? Their Democratic Republic

100% because the cake was whats up

Even More Questions on the Presentations

Taylor:

1. What was special about Homer? He was blind
2. What was one of his most famous books? Odyssey

100% because she read a summarized version of the 400 page drama The Odyssey and it was cool.

The Parthenon:

1. When did the Parthenon get nearly destroyed? In the battle against the Venetians 
2. What leader had the idea to make the Parthenon? Pericles  

90% because it had some mixed up information

Clark:

1. Who invented the Archimedes screw? Archimedes 
2. What did Plato make advancements in? Astronomy

100% because it was awesome!

Catherine: 

1. What invention made pot making easier? 
2. What caused pottery to go bad? Collapse of Mycenaean society in the Dark Age

100% because it explains each era of pottery and showed examples so we can see what they actually did.

Gracie:

1. How was the poetry spread? People remembered the long things and retell them to other people
2. What events came from the poetry? They were made into plays for everyone to see

100% because it had a bunch of different kinds of poetry and how it got big

Kristy:

1. What was the main reason Socrates was arrested? after they lost the war they needed to blame someone for their loss
2. What was the penalty he was demanded? Death

More Questions on Presentations

Alyssa:

1. Do you think the armor that was worn during battles helped them win instead of their fighting power?
2. Was Sparta so powerful just because they had strong worriers  or was it great military strategy?

100%! Because it included a lot of things that revolved her topic and it was long and chill

Caitlyn: 

1. Where in Greece did this drama actually start getting big enough to be preformed in front of hundreds of people?
2. What were the stages called?

100% because her video was classic

Clarke:

1. Who did Philip hire to become Alexanders tutor?
2. What God did Alexander's mother say was his actual father? 

95% because it had good facts but it was just a regular slide show with nothing else

Questions for for the Presentations

Kamau:

1. If Spartan soldiers mistreated the younger soldiers, did that sometimes lead to some of the soldiers leaving the state because of the way they were treated?
2. If they drafted all of the boys into the army at a young age, how come they only had 300 soldiers against Persia?

Fiona:

1. Did Spartan and Athenian allies play a big part in who won, or did they not do much
2. How long did the peace treaty stay for?

The Greeks: More Notes from the Movie Pt. 3

• Pericles was the ruler of Athens at its golden era
• The Parthenon was the most glorious thing in Athens history
• The Parthenon Frieze was a wall that sculptures were drawn all over
• Pericles let his prostitute in on conversations he has with important people in Athens
• This isn't usual for 5th century Athens
• Odepius was a man in a tragedy that he ends up having a sexual relationship with his mother...
• All Gods in ancient Greece had one fatal flaw in their powers
• Pericles went on to make Athens the undisputed leader of the Mediterranean area 
• To get to be the leader of the Mediterranean area, Pericles knew he had to defeat Sparta 
• Wanting to be the leader of the area was Pericles' fetal flaw
• To go into the battle with Sparta, Pericles told the Athenian to leave their homes once again 

The Greeks: More Notes from the Movie Pt. 2

• Themistocles worked his way up to being a general through the new democracy that begun
• Triremes were lightweight war boats that Themistocles wanted to begin the Athens Navy
• Themistocles began a Naval force of over 200 triremes
• As soon as Themistocles built these, Xerxes promised that in his fathers honor, he would burn Athens to the ground
• The military that Xerxes made for this war was something like 2 million men
• The people of Athens went to see the Oracle of Delehi to see what was going to happen to them in this war
• The Oracle said that they were doomed and that they should run before they get trashed by some Persians
• Themistocles sent people back to the Oracle
• The Oracle said "The wooden wall only would not fail" 
• Themistocles said that this meant inside the walls of the wooden triremes
• Athens was ordered to evacuate
• The people of Athens fled to Salamis 
• Xerxes and his men went into Athens, and burnt down the acropolis  
• The Persians lost 200 ships in this war and had its Navy broken
• Athens was head of the Delian League 
• Themistocles got banished from Athens
• Athens had said that Themistocles had "gotten too big for his boats"
• He had finally died while he was still in exile somewhere in Persia
• Pericles was the next ruler for Athens
• Pericles wanted to create a place where people would admire it forever
• Pericles commanded people to recreate the acropolis that was burnt down and changing it to the parthenon  
• The parthenon was a billion dollar statue in modern day money
• Aspasia was a foreign woman that was basically a prostitute
• The Greeks basically invented drama and comedies