Thursday, March 24, 2011
Today's class 3/24/11
Today in western civ class we reviewed our tests from yesterday, which I ended up getting a 100 on. I am so happy!! We then picked our topics for our projects which are due the day we get back from break. My topic is the Hellenic period. I am hoping that I will do well on this assignment. My topic seems somewhat interesting, if you like sculptures.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Today's class 3/23/11
Today in western civ we took a test on Greece. It was so easy! I'm pretty sure I got an A. I can't wait to watch more of the movie tomorrow, but it seems so long! How many more days is it going to take to finish it??
Monday, March 21, 2011
Today's class 3/21/11
Today in western civ class we watched even more of the movie; The Greeks: Cruicable of Civilization. We talked mainly about a man named Pericles. He brought great wealth to Athens, such as buidling the Parthenon. During his rein, the Greeks also built outdoor theatres, and introduced plays. There were two types: tragedy and comedy. We stopped the movie right before Pericles starts a war with the Spartans, called the Pelopennesian War.
Notes on the movie 3/21/11
Pericles
- started out as an aristocrat
- not a democrat
- born into one of Athen's most elite families
- had in mind to create a city fit to rule an empire
- Parthenon - a temple to Athena, and astonishing building; most beautiful building ever built then
- would require 20 thousand tons of marble to build
- building was completed in only 15 years
- was and still is the most glorious symbol of Athens
- Pericles treated this as his own personal project
- His partner: Aspasia
- hetira - Greek for a companion
- caused a scandal in Athens, because Perciles actually treated her with equality
- television, cinema, theatre started here.
- Home of the greatest ancient theatre:
- the Greeks invented dramas
- the Greek's invented theatre
- noisy
- sometimes performed in masks
- tragedy and comedy
- oedipus, agamemnon, and many others were plays held there
- Sparta was the only other state tat compared to Athens
- victory over Sparta would declare Athens as ruler of the Mediterranean
- huberous - excessive pride, thinking you can do anything
- Pericles
- He knew this would not be an easy war to win
Friday, March 18, 2011
Today's class 3/18/11
Today in western civ we watched more of the movie and took more notes. My notes are in the previous post. We talked mainly about a man name Themisticles. He defeated the Persians in a war fought in the sea between Salamis ans Athens. Mr. Schick also gave us cookies today too.
Notes on Ancient Greece 3/18/11
Themistecles
- a common athenian
- the savior of his city
- he alone recognized that the Persians could still be a threat
- created the most advanced piece of technology: Trirem
- a complex boat (missle)
- lethal, could take out a whole ship
- expensive
- Athenians found some extra wealth and wanted to give it to everyone
- Themistelces wanted to spend it on ships
- Themistecles wanted to built the biggest army and naval fleet
- Darrius died, his son Xerxes took over
- Xerxes wanted to burn Athens to the ground
- began consrtucting troops
- from every corner of his empire
- nearly 2 million men
- In the spring of 480 BC, news reached Athens that Persia was going to invade Athens
- Greeks went to see the oracle of Delfy
- she communicates directly to the gods
- Apithia, the priestess, who spoke with the voice of Apollo
- The oracle said that they were doomed and to run
- Themistecles ordered for the evacuation of Athens for the first time, to the village of Troystan
- All men were to board ships
- Salamis - a city off the coast of Greece
- Themistecles wanted the Persians to fight with him in the area between Salamis and Athens
- Themistecles sends someone into the Persian camp and to pretend that he is a traitor
- they are all scared, you can go in an crush them. if you go in tonight, you will be able to defeat them
- The Greeks had lored the Persians into the straight so far that they had no room to menuver
- The Greeks had won the war, and the Persians had lost 200 fleets
- the Delian League, Athen's empire
- Athens also gained economic power after their win with Persia
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Today's class and homework 3/17/11
Today in class we watched more of the movie and we took some more notes. My notes are listed in the previous blog post, and this is my homework:
Vocab
Vocab
- Tyrant - any person of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically
- Hoplite - a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece
- Democracy - a state society characterized by formal equal rights and privileges
- Agora - a popular political assembly
- Acropolis - the citadel or height fortified area of an snceint Greek city
- Arisotcracy - a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility
- Homer - was the author of the Illiad and the Odyssey. He was one of the greatest ancient Greek poets and had an enormous influence on the literature back then. His poems were mostly likely some of the first literature ever written.
- Cleisthenes - was a noble Athenian, who is responsible for setting ancient Athens into a democratic system. Often referred to as the "Father of democracy."
- Darrius - "Darrius the great." He was the ruler of the Persian empire, and he organized the empire by dividing it into provinces. Led the Persian empire to war with the Greeks, but the Greeks won the war
- Pisistratos - was a popular ruler, lowering taxes and offering loans to people who needed them. He also helped the poor and disabled. The reason he was ruler of Athens was because he tricked people into believing he had the goddess Athena with him so that the people would make him the ruler.
- Isagorus - was an Athenian aristocrat. After Hippias was overthrown, he and Cleisthenes battle for power. He requested help from the Spartan King and then after banning Cleisthenes from Athens, was overthrown by the people.
- Hippias - was the son of Pisistratos, and after his borhter was murdered, he brutally killed his murderers and tourtured one of their wives. He became paranoid of people and took most of their rights away.
- Pheidippides - a hero of Ancient Greece. He was considered to have inspired the first marathon. He ran and extremely long distance, 140 miles.
Notes on the greek movie 3/17/11
- Hippias
- 514 BC, his brother was murdered
- He brutally murdered his brother's murders and creuly tourtured one of their wives
- became paranoid, taking away people's rights, and ordered executions
- thought his greatest enemy were the aristocrats
- Cleisthenese took his first big step and overthrow Hippias
- 510 BC and Cleisthenese was one of the most powerful beings in Athens
- Olympia
- Men across the Greeks world would come here every 4 years to test their strengths and abilities
- the games roots go back to the heores of mythology
- as amny as 40 thousand greeks would gather for the games
- Isagaros
- an athenian aristocrat
- he enlisted the help of his Spartan friends, since he knew he could not gain power alone
- rumored was he shared his wife with a Spartan king
- Revolution of the people
- the common Athenians rebelled against the new leader, Isagaros
- He held out for 2 days and then surrendered
- Athens first step to an empire
- Cleisthenese
- had a meeting place carved out of a rock
- place where the Athenian people discussed their government
- Agora
- simple, white pebble for yes and black pebble for no
- system of governemnt called democracy
- a system of goverment that would change this small city state
- 490 BC, 4 years after foudning democracy
- Pheideppedes
- ran the first marathon
- not for glory but for survival
- his homeland was about to be taken over by the Persian empire
- early 5th century BC the Persian empire was the biggest
- the tiny state of demcoratic Athens was gaining power and the Persian empire felt the need to destroy them
- learder was Darrius (Persian empire)
- Greeks emphasise freedom, and the Persians emphazied obedience
- every male citizens was to protect their state
- Hoplite - closest thing to military
- Pheideppedes ran 140 miles in 40 days
- other version 26 miles
- slaughtered over 6 thousand Persians in one day in the war
- Greeks won the war
- Themistoclese
- fought on the battlefield at marathon
- risen through power of demcracy
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Today's class 3/16/11
Today in western civ class, we reviewed the most important points from the video we have been watching, The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. Some of the things we talked about were, Cleisthenese, where he came from and that he was an aristocrat, when Pisistratus took over Athens, how Athens prospered then, and also about Homer and his two stories: the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Movie Notes 3/16/11
- 508 BC, the people revolted against their government
- Cleisthenes
- 570 BC Cleisthenes was born
- aristocrat - greeks word for member of the ruling class, had wealth
- town was built around the acropolis - big outcropping of rock
- common athenians were mostly middle-class
- followed under aristocratic rule
- it was impossible for one ruler to dominate this fragmented places
- divided into city states
- because they were separated by all these mts., all of Greece was not united
- competed for trade dollars, claimed war on eachother
- rivals (especialyl Athens and Sparta)
- one city-state with military power
- Sparta
- brought up from birth to be soldiers
- lives structred around discipline and war
- brought up to put up with anything
- Cleisthenes was always one to be powered by a dream
- bards sang stories of ancient heroes
- Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey
- Odyessey is the story of Odysseus and his journey back home over 10 years
- tyrant
- Pisistratus- excellent polition, Cleisthenes's brother-in-law
- turned to the common athenians for support
- treating the regular people really well
- cuts taxes on people
- lent them money, if they wanted to grow anything themselves
Monday, March 14, 2011
Today's class 3/14/11
Today Mr Schick was back in class after he had been gone because of senior retreat. We took some breif notes about the movie and then continued on to take a lot of detailed notes about Greece. My notes are in the previous blog post. They include things like the geography, Mycenaeans, and some of the Ancient Greek beliefs.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Todays class 3/11/11
Today in western civ class we watched a movie about ancient Greece. We had a sub today because Mr Schick went on the senior retreat. He told us to take notes on the movie, and my notes are listed in the previous blog post. Also a huge earthquake caused a tsunami to hit Japan, causing major damage. It is also forced the huge wave to go towards Hawaii andthe coast of the US, mostly in LA and more of California cost.
Notes on Ancient Greece 3/11/11
Clysteneese
- would set his fellow Greeks on the path to an empire
- born around 570 BC
- from Early on he had been taught that he was an aristocrat, Greek
- Athens was built around the acropolis
- reading and writing was a rare skill, no science and medicine, and life expectancy was around 15 yrs
- common athenians were ruled under the aristocrats
- too many mts.
- not really associated with the impearial world
- off the3 coast was tiny little islands
- all cities divided into little City-States
- Corinth
- Clysteneese-Athens
- On city state with military power
- Sparta
- taught from a very early age to fight, taken from families
- life striped of comforts
- wore red, so that blood could not be seen
- ruthless expansionists
- Clysteneese has always been a great invionist
- travleing bargs told stories to anyone who would lay
- Most famous
- the Illiad
- and the Odyssey
- Greek heroes, determined to seek victory at all costs
- Model of a great hero was what Clysteneese was brought up to follow
- Clysteneese was not the only one to take the tales of the hero to heart
- One man seized the cities
- Woman he claimed, was Athena
- was actually Clysteneese's brother-in-law
- Pisistrotus
- With the rise of Pisistrotus, the land prospered. Through olive production, they were able to make trades out of it and even trade out of the city, to even Egypt
- Athen's greatest prosperity
- the Vase and artists. Artists were not highly regarded
- These Athenians painters created a new, never beofre seen style
- Pisistrotus rule did not last long
- His son Hippias took over
- followed in his dad's footsteps
- Athenians soon discovered tyranny
- Hippias's brother was murdered
- He not only killed the men who killed his brother, but tourtured one of their wives to death
- Clystennese decided to take his first gamble, over-throwing Hippias
- he assembled a small army to overthrow the tyrant
- 501 BC nad Clystennes was now the most powerful man
- once every four years, men gathered to test their abilities
- ancestor of modern olympics
- anyone could participate
- competitions based on the heroic stories
- now real prize, just a wreath and nationwide fame
- 40,000 greeks would gather for the games
- most powerful aristocrat conspiring against Clystennes
- went to the Spartans to betray his country
- Spartans accepted
- first targets were the other aristocrats, Clystennese most of all
- all houses were cast out
- the people of athens took their destiny into their own hands
- they rose up in revolution
- Isagarus held out for two days, and then surrenderd
- first steps to empire
- people were taking a say
- they turned to one man: Clystennese
- He was asked to build the gorvernment
- he has a secret meeting place built, were the whole city would gather, and people could have a say in the government
- insittuded the rule of the people: white stone for yes, and black for no (vote)
- gathered every 9 days: from the raising of taxes to the bulding of roads, the price of figs to the declaration of war
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Today's class 3/10/11
Today in western civ we went over the slide presentations we were assigned to do last night. They were about a story we are reading, which is about ancient greece. There we many different topics such as Barbarians, Xerxes, Spartans, and the Battle of Thermopolyese. Mr. Schick skipped me though.....I will most likely go Monday. Tomorrow we are going to have a sub, and watch a move. We have to take notes on it, and post them to our blogs. Have fun on the senior retreat!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Today's class 3/9/11
Today in western civ class we started a new lesson, Ancient Greece. Mr. Schick read to us out of a book, about things like Athens, Sparta, and famous heroes. We talked especially about a bridge made from just ships and a rope that was a foot thick. It was designed to let at least 1000 men cross it to the other side of the river, which was about a mile wide. Then we started on our class-wide project on making a slide in a googles docs, about different things about Ancient Greece. My topic was the Peloponnesian war, which is pretty cool.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Today's class 3/7/11
Today in western civilization we took our test on Ancient Egypt. I thought it was pretty easy, and I am pretty sure I got an A on it. I wonder what we are going to start next, something new? Or are we going to continue with more Egypt? Either way I don't mind, just so long as it is interesting, not that it isn't all the time. Maybe we could study some of feudal Japan or I would love to study mythology and Ancient Greece.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Today's class 3/4/11
Today in western civ class we discussed some more notes, but this time on Modern Egypt. We talked about things like their geography, their religions and languages, and their government as well. Our test on Egypt is on Monday, I hope everyone does well!
Notes on Modern Egypt 3/4/11
Modern Egypt
- tourism
- agricultue
- cotton
- Cairo is a metropolitan area, big tourist site
- like New York
- Dam controls the floofing of the Nile
- * Akhet, Peret, Shomu *
- 79 million people - biggest population of Middle East
- Official language - Arabic
- Relgion- 90% Muslim, most of the rest are Christian
- major conflicts (12th worst in religious violence, and 5th worst for religious freedom)
- recenly had a revolution - Hosni Mubarak was kicked out of office, in 2011. (this year)
- * Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak *
- Sadat made alliance with US - was killed by his own people by a radical hate group
- Gamal made alliances with the Soviet Union
- Now ruled by a military junta, military is running things.
- elections will be held in 6 months
- Lybia *
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Today's class 3/3/11
Today in western civ class we reviewed yesterdays notes on Ancient Egypt. We also went through more notes from the prezi. Our quiz will be next week. The notes I took are in the previous post.
Notes on Egypt Quiz 2
Scribes
- wrote in heiroglyphs and heiratics
- heiratics are the alphabet and heiroglyphs are like words
- used wooden weapons (bows&arrows, spears) w/ bronze tips and might ride a chariot
- known as the white kilt class. priests, physicians, engineers. upper class
- religious and political leaders
- had contact directly with the gods
- titles : Lord of the twon lands and High Priest of every Temple
- numbers 1 in the land
- ruler of upper and lower Egypt, owned all land, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
- Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh; didnt happen often
- women had pretty descent rights
- Cleopatra VII also served as pharoh, but much later (51-30 BC) more on her when we study Greece
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Today's class 3/2/11
Today in western civ class we discussed our upcoming Ancient Egypt quiz. some of the things we talked about were their daily ife, the pyramids, and georgaphy. My notes are listed in the previous blog post.
Notes on Egypt Quiz
Geography
- Egyptian life is centered around the Nile
- Nile used for water for drinking, irrigaitng, and for bathing, and transportation
- first people to ever make a sail and use them
- ever July the Nile floods
- every October it leaves behnd rich soil
- managing the river rquired technological breakthroughs in irigation
- first people to figure out the calendar
- the delta is a broad marshy triangular area of fertile soil
- Socila Strata
- Slaves and servants = helped the wealthy: household chores etc
- Farmers - grains, lentils, barley, onions
- Artisans - crafters, carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and heroic deeds, and their leaders
- Merchants - money/barter system was used, might accept grain as payment. later coinage came about
- Scribes - kept records, told sotries, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments.
- wrote with hieroglyphics and hieratic
- Soldiers
- Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
- Pharoh
- The Great Sphinx of Giza
- a recumbant lion with a human's head
- oldest monumental statue in the world
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