Last Day

Today was the last day of class. I was a bit disappointed but we spent the whole class writing the essays for the exams. We had to pick 3 essay topics to do out of the 5 essay topics. I picked the one about the entertainment, culture, and art. I also picked the quote. I don't remember the last one but i know that I picked a d and e.

Rome Test

Today during class, we had test on Rome. I thought that the test was ok. I didn't remember about 10 questions but I think I guessed them alright. I thought the the section with the governments were going to be trickier. I got most of them right I think. But some of the questions on the government I got confused. The one about the assembly I didn't remember. I thought it was something with the senate. I also didn't remember how many slave were in Italy.

Project presentation day

Today during class, we had three groups present their projects today. The first group had Roman food brought in. I thought everything was really god. I liked the salad, pasta, and the apple juice. The cheese cake was good but I can't eat hard stuff. They also had a power point with the recipes for each dish they have made and a picture at the end of the power point because Romans usually had some picture hung on the wall while they ate. I was surprised that the apple juice had some cinnamon in it. I was expecting just apple juice but cinnamon taste came into my mouth. It was really delicious. I was also wondering why they didn't pass out the drinks because I was getting thirsty. They said that Romans ate their meal first then they would drink in the end. The second presentation was a Roman song. The Roman song was cover of the song Iggy Fancy. The was really hilarious. The song was amazing. The last presentation was a powerpoint about the coliseum and the circus Maximus. The power point wasn't as creative as the others but it did provide a lot of information.

Rome Project

Today during class, we got to work on out projects. Caitlyn and I decided that we are not going to do the song because we wouldn't have enough time to work on it. Instead we decided to just focus on making the dairy. We also changed up the plan about the diary. We decided that if we were to just read the diary to the class, we would get points off of creativity because all we would do is sit and read. Instead we decided that we are going to dress up like the character we wrote about and then reenact what we wrote about. We will also include a powerpoint so that everyone can read along to what we are reading out of the diary.

Rome Notes #6

poor plebs

• the poet Juvenal said the people “anxiously hopes for two things: bread and circuses”
• bread and entertainment, partly to keep them alive, and partly to keep them quiet
  
  
  a change in rule
  • Tiberius Gracchus recognized the advantages of courting the plebeians
  • military generals worked that angle - lead an army that conquers a land, then give them a share in the spoils
  • soldiers’ loyalty was to their military leader, not necessarily to Rome or the Republic
    
    
    nobody did that better than Caesar
    • Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BCE)
    • successful general
    • conquered the huge territory of Gaul

Pop Quiz

Today during class, we took a pop quiz on Rome. The pop quiz was easy except for the legislative, executive, and judicial branch. I was stupid enough to put the president and vice president as the answer for the legislative branch. I don't know why but I thought for a moment that there were four branches in the government. I thought the last question was a trick question. All the other answers I didn't recognize except for the "just grab some land". I didn't trust the answer but it was the only one I  was familiar with so I picked it. And I was surprised I got it right. I thought it was a trick question. The rest of the class we got to use that time to work on our projects with our partner. Caitlyn and I worked on our part of the diary. I got through the background of the persons diary and Caitlyn is working on the cook book.

Rome Video #2

Today during class, we finished the video we had watched yesterday. The video was about patricians taking the plebeians land. Mr. Schick kept replaying the "just grab some land". The video summarizes the topic that we have covered in class.

Rome Video

Today during class we watched a video that summarizes the notes that we took about Rome. The video sound was not working again. Mr. Schick says he wants to commit crimes because the laptop was not working. We spent the whole class watching the video.

Rome Notes #5

Roman Legion
- 5000 soldiers, not in it for pay
   ~ The Roman army's elite heavy infinity
   ~ recruited exclusively from Roman citizen

• group of eighty’s a century
• on horseback is the cavalry
• shield, sword. dagger, and armor and tube

The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE)

Rome vs. Carthage

Three different wars

First Punic War

• 264-241 BCE
• Naval battles for control of the strategically located 
• Rome wins this one

Second Punic War

• island of sicily
• Carthage loses. He travels at the back of Rome and attacks for 15 years but never reaches Rome
• Carthaginians attacks from he North
• Brings along elephants, some die along the way

Last Punic War

• Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
• Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city
• Carthage was burned for 17 days; the city’s walls and buildings were utterly destroyed
• When the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery
• The rest of Carthage’s territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa

Economic change, social upheaval

• Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 carthaginians 150,000 Greek POWs, etc.)
• By the end of the second century BCE there were over a million slaves in Italy
• Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats

Rome Notes #4

Rule of kings is replaced by rule of two consuls

• consuls are elected officials
• term of office: one year
• always aristocrats (patricians)
• patricians traced their descent from a famous ancestor, or pater (“father”)
• duties: dealing justice, making law, commanding the army
• one consul could veto the other (reducing the power of the individual)

  
  

  a challenge from the “regular folks”

  • fifth century BCE - patrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebs (“people”)
  • plebs were 98% of the population
  • plebs had to serve in the army,

        but could not hold office

  • plebs were threatened with debt slavery
  • plebs had no legal rights
    
    
    “no legal rights,” you say?
    • plebs were victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial trials
    • Rome had no actual laws, just unwritten customs
    • patricians could interpret these to their own advantage
    
    
    So, plebs refused to serve in the military until…
  • laws were written out (The Law of the Twelve Tables)
  • these laws (on tablets) were posted in public (in 450 BCE)
  • tribunes (“tribal leaders”) were elected  
    
    
    SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanum
  • designates any decree or decision made by “the Roman Senate and People
    
    
    res publica
    brand new republic, ready to run
  • democracy (the people’s assembly and the tribunes
  • aristocracy (the Senate - approx. 300 members)
  • plus monarchy (the consuls)
  • not a tyranny

  
  

  
  

  
  

Free mod

Today during class, we got to do whatever we wanted. We got to work on homework because we were ahead of the other classes.

Rome Notes #3

Who settles in Rome?

Etruscans
- Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
- metal warkers, artists, architects
- Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aneid plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
   ~ Religious belief
   ~ Alphabet
   ~ Much of their art
   ~ military techniques and weaponry

Latins (first to settle)
- Descendants of Indo-Europeans
- Settled on the banks of the Tiber
- Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further

They drained the swap
- Many streams flowed into the Tiber
- There was a marshy area called Forum, between Palatin and capitoline hills
- Tarqin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water int he Tiber

Train the Proud
- Lucius Tarquinia Superbus
- The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarqin the Proud
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
- Tarqin sized power like and old school tyrant.

Project Day #1

Today during class, we got to meet up with our partner to start on our Rome project. My partner is Caitlyn. We are decided that we are going to do two project. Caitlyn and I decided we were going to make a diary. We will make two diary's. One is going to be about a Roman women and the other Roman man. We are going to write about their lifestyle and what they do. We will make them get married and then write about their lifestyle as a married couple. We decided that we are not going to make a song because I couldn't stay after school to practice. Caitlyn really wanted to do it so I changed my mind and also decided to do it with her. I won't practice at school but I can practice at home. I will probably use my violin to play along with Caitlyn. During class, Caitlyn got to start on the lyrics and I started gathering notes for the diaries.

Baltimore Riot

Today during class, we had a discussion about the Baltimore riot that happened yesterday. We took the whole class talking about it. The people in baltimore were looting stores and fighting policemen. They were also burning down buildings. The riot might come to Harford Country. Caitlyn said this and she said she heard it from someone that heard it from their parents. We are not sure if this will happen.

Rome Notes #2

Notes
- Tarqin the proud ruled from 534-530 BC
- Last of the Roman King
- Matrins: Women in their 40s or 50s that are very well respected.

We didn't take a lot of notes. We got donuts at the beginning of the class.

Essay's Returned!

Yay!!!! The essays are now finally returned. Mr. Schick, you took way too long to grade this. It felt like years. I was so excited for my grade because my group put all our effort into this essay. We got the essay and we received a 91% on our essay. I thought we did a really good job but I messed up our essay the most because I didn't write the number in word form out. I wrote the actual number and I got a lot of points off because of it. Now for every next essay, Im going to write the number word out.

Rome Notes

Rome
- Ninth century - Etruscans, Greeks, Latin

City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic
Italy and Its People
- Remus and Romulus born by a god and a human. They didn't want them so they put them into the Tifris River. A mother wolf took them and raised them. Once they were adults, they were adopted my real people. They grew up and they wanted to build a city. They argued on the location of where the city should be. Romulus kills Remus and Romulus makes his city and names it Rome
- The Etruscan People, originally from the east, had settled in the north of Italy and were an early influence on the Romans.
- The Romans were influenced by the Greek settlements to their south and learned the alphabet.

The Roman Republic
- Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders call the "Senate".
- C.500 B.C., the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a "Republic"
- Since the Senate was populated only by patricians (aristocratic men) the plebeians (ordinary citizens) fought for a vote for the senate elected two rulers, "conculs" who each serve a term of one year.
- As in Greek city-states, the Romans would appoint a single dictator in time on war or conflict.

Field Trip

I wasn't in class because I went on a field trip for orchestra.

Rome Projects!

Today during class, we did nothing but talk about what Rome project we should do. We got to choose what projects we could do. There were many ideas around the room. There were ideas of bringing in a horse, having war with Mr. Teeters class, create a movie, create a clay animation, dress up as Roman gods, make commercials, go on the turf field and have war, create human columns, bring in Roman food, and create bored games. We could also choose what groups we could be in.

Video

Today during class, we had difficulties with the video. The sound wasn't working so we had to use someone else laptop. The video that we watched was about 5 people that were locked inside of a cave and tied onto a bar. They were there their whole lives. The only thing they could see was shadows of figures on a wall. These figures on the wall was clay figures in front of a fire high up so that the the 5 people are able to see the shadows. The 5 people would ask questions and guess what the figures are. One day, there was  man that came into the cave and let loose one person. He told that person the truth behind what he was seeing on the wall. He was then free and was able to go out into the world and see what the world was really like. When that person returned to the cave, his eye sight got worse and he couldn't see the shadows clearly like he used to. The others laughed at him and made fun of him.

My thought on the video is that people who are always locked in are not able to learn the truth. Those who go out and look at the world logically, we are able to learn the truth.

Review Test

Test answers
1. Huang He
- China
2. Nile
- Egypt
3. Euphrates
- Mesopotamia
4. Indus
- India
5. Mississippi
- United States
6. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Greece?
- Most land is suitable for farming
7. Approximately____ of Greece is covered by mountains.
- 3/4
8. These sea people invaded Mycenae, burning palace after palace.
- Dorians
9. Which was not one of the main crops grown by the ancient Greeks?
- Corn
10. Which of these is a large island off the southeast coast of Greece?
- Crete
11. This the government in which the state is ruled by a king?
- Monarchy
12. this the government in which the state is ruled by the land-owning nobility.
- Aristocracy
13. This is an alternative form of government in which an alliance was formed with well-armed soldiers to rule outside the framework of the polis.
- Tyranny
14. From 1600 BC to 1200 BC, Greece was dominated by_____ kings.
- Mycenaean
15. Which of the following a not a characteristic of the period from 1150 BC to 750 BC?
- Dorians planted the seed of democracy
16. He and his Spartan allies were driven from power by the very first "people's revolution."
- Isagoras
17.Who was the leader who ushered in the age of democracy in Greece?
- Cleisthenes
18. What was the name for the meeting where aristocrats would drink, party, and discuss politics?
- Symposium
19. Who composed narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds?
- Homer
20. Who was the ruler of the Greek Gods?
- Zeus
21. Who was the goddess of wisdom, and Zeus' favorite child?
- Athena
22. The fortified hilltop at the center of Athens was known as the
- Acropolis
23. A narrative poem that celebrates heroic deeds is a(n)
- epic
24. A story about gods, such as the stories created by the Greeks as a way to understand nature and human passions, is a(n)
- Myth
25. A battle formation in which foot soldiers stood side by side, holding overlapping spears and shields, is a
- Phalanx
26. This was a three-level Athenian battleship which was rowed by up to 170 men.
- Trireme
27. The public center which served as both a market and a place to exchange ideas was the
- Agora
28. The narrative poem which described the events of the Trojan War was
- The Iliad
29.The narrative poem which told of the adventures of a war hero trying to return home was
- The Odyssey
30. Citizen-soldier who were expected to fight for their homeland were
- hoplites
31. This was a magnificent building which housed a giant statue of Athena
- Parthenon
32. This war was fought between Athens and Sparta for almost 30 years.
- Peloponnesian War
33.This was a porting competition where the common man could actually compete against aristocrats.
- Olympics
34. This is a notion of excellence and virtue; the act of living up to one's full potential.
- arete
35. This city-state was the birthplace of democracy and the head of the Delian League.
- Athens
36. He was the prominent leader during Athens' Golden Age.
- Pericles
37. This prominent city-state had a fearsome infantry and was located in southeastern Peloponnese.
- Sparta
38. This was the god of the sea, rivers, the floods and the earthquakes.
- Poseidon
39. He was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers
- Socrates
40. He wrote out The Apology, which related the word and teaching of another philosopher
- Plato
41. he ran an influential school called The Lyceum
- Aristotle
42. He tutored Alexander the Great
- Aristotle
43. He developed a method of asking questions to develop critical thing
- Socrates
44. He developed The Allegory of the Cave
- Plato
45. Death of Socrates
- 399 BCE
46. the Dorian Age
- 1150-750 BCE
47. The common Greeks revolt against their leaders
- 508 BCE
48. Mycenaeans kings dominate Greece
- Around 1600 BCE
49. Homer composed his narrative poems
- 1150-750 BC
50. Which of the following modern-day countries would not be considered a member of "Western civilization"?
- China

Test

Today during class, we took a test on ancient Greek. I thought the test was ok. It was too hard or too easy. There were some questions that I couldn't get. There were also some questions that I knew but forgot because reading the answers got me mixed up. I thought my grade was alright. I also have hope in my essay because our group worked very hard on it. I think our essay will bump up our grades.

Essay #4

Today during class we got to finish everything. We noticed that the weapon and armor paragraph was too long. We decided to cut it in half making it two paragraphs. One paragraph was going to be about Athens weapons and armor and the other is going to be Spartans armor and weapons. We checked through our essay to make sure that everything was good. Lucky Caitlyn checked the essay example and noticed that there was a cited work page that we haven't done. We were also worried because the cites that we went on we didn't remember what they were. Lucky we had all the cites on our google slides and I copied and pasted it to our works cited. Then we took those and went to webbib and cited all the cites.

Essay #3

Today during class we continued to work on our essay. We all got together and worked on the conclusion section. We got to finish half of the conclusion section and we are stuck trying to figure out how we should end the conclusion. We also decided to add another paragraph about weapons and armor because this section would be very long. We also checked each others paragraph and we all added some extra small details and fixed some sentences. We finished all our own paragraphs and tomorrow we all decided to work on the rest of the armor and weapons paragraph. The conclusion is finished but we are not so sure if its good enough.

Essay #2

Today we worked on more of our essay. I got to finish my Athens section and Caitlyn is almost finished her Spartans section. Rosemary is almost finished her Peloponnesian War section too. We haven't started on our conclusion section yet. We are going to work on this section next time we meet. We are also going to go through our misspellings and correcting each section next time too. We mostly focused on getting only our part done so that we can work as a group next time.

Essay

Today during class, my group and I worked on our essay. I started our essay yesterday night. When I came into class, I was surprised to see that my group has also started the essay too. We all got the introduction paragraph finished to day. We all mashed up our paragraphs together. When we finished we decided to split the rest of the paragraphs. Since we did the google slide and we all worked on one section, we decided best that we all do the paragraph and we did our slide on. We also decided to add a paragraph about armor and weapons in another paragraph because this was one of the major facts on which side had more of an advantage.

Presentation Day #3

These are the notes I took during the presentation

Greek Mythology
- Beliefs and ancient rituals of the ancient Greels
Characteristics
- Greek gods resembled the humans in form
- showed human feelings
The Twelve Olympians
- The major details of the Greek Panthers
- Includes: Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hera, Demeter, ext
Zeus
- God of the sky and thunder
- King of the gods
- referred to as Lord of Justice
Poseidon
- God of sea
- second nation god of Athens
Athena
- Goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts, and literature
- Served as guardian of Athens
Aphrodite
- Goddess of love and beauty
- Child of Zeus and Dione
- Married to Hephaestus
Hera
- Goddess of Marriage and queen olympus
- Protecter of women
Demeter
- Goddess of agriculture, fertility, sacred law, and the harvest
- Daughter of Cronus and Rhea
Apollo
- God of the sun, the lights, music and the property
- Son of Zeus and Leto
Artemis
- Goddess of the hunt, forest, and hills, the moon, archery
- Daughter of Leo and Sues and twin of Apollo
Ares
- God of war; represented the unpleasnt aspects of battle
- son of Zeus and Hera
Hermes
- God of trade, eloquence and messenger of the God
- Son of Zeus and Maia
Hephaetus
- God of fire and metalworking
- Son of Zeus and Hera
- The only ugly God
Dionysus
- God of fertility and wine
- Patron of the ares
- Son of Zeus and Semele
Hades
- God of wealth
- Ruler of the underworld
- one of the 3 major gods
- is not death himself

Government in Ancient Greece
Aristocracy
- Is a form of government in which power is in the hands of a small group of people
- Seized the property of small landowners and made laws for underclass
Solon in Greek
- His reforms were removed by Aristocrats who succeeded in power
Time that the Tyranny arose
- Mid 600 B.B.
- Middle class became angry
Tyrants
- ruled short periods of time

Presentation Day #2

These are the notes that have taken during the presentations.

Hercules and The Golden Age
- Born 495 BC In Athens
- A general supporter
- Brought democracy to Athens
- Passed laws that allowed the poor to attend plays and schools
- During the Peloponnesian War, Hercules led his people and made sure they were safe
- Golden Age: Mainly in Athens
- Peloponnesian War ended the Golden Age

Hoplites and Triremes
Hoplites
- Most common type of armor (7th and 4th century)
- 1/3 to 1/2 of men have been able to fight and buy the needed materials for war
- Hoplites organized into groups or lokhoi
Triremes
- Ancient boat used for war defense
- Took 6,000 men days for the boat to be finished
- Mostly used in the Persian War
- Freeman rowed the boats

Socrates, Plato, Aristle
Socrates
- lived from 470 - 399 BC
- wasn't from a noble family
- Married xnathies
- Socratic Method
- He was sentenced to death by Hemlock poisioning

Plato
- Born 428 BCE in Athens
- Joined the military. after that, he became a member of Athenian olarchy
- influenced the education

Art and Architecture
- Three main account Greek Architectures: Dorin order, Inonic order, corinthian order.
Dorin order:
- The simplest
- Simplest developed on the mainlands
Ionic order:
- Recognised by its voluted
Corinthian order:
- Most decorative
- has flowers

Statues:
- Bronze and metal were major materials for sculptures
- Classical period: Skill level has increased
- Hellenistic period: Peak of Greek sculpture

Presentation Day!

Today during class, we took the whole mod to present slides. I was surprised that our group went first to present because we picked number 2 and I thought we were going to go second. I wanted to watch another group go first so that I can see what I can do and what not to do. I was nervous going up first. What made me even more nervous was that my slides were the first 10 slides. I forgot that we couldn't read off the slides we have made so I read some of my slides all the way through. We took about a half of the mod presenting our slide when we should have only taken 7 mins. I was also nervous that we would get off points on our war slides. We didn't have much for those slides. We had only two slides. But overall I think our group did a good job.

Greece Notes #4

Next in line
- with Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes engaged in a power struggle
- Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta
- Cleisthenes had support of the majority of Athenians

Isagoras wins
- Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant)
- He ostracizes Cleisthenes 
- Cleisthenes’ supporters - and the ordinary Athenian citizens! - revolt against Isagoras’ tyranny
- They trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he fled and was banished

Cleisthenes and Democracy

- Cleisthenes - member of the elite

- very rich

- insulated from the “hoi polloi”

- crafty politician

Greece Notes #3

transformation of government

- During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristrocrats ran the show in most of Greece

Aristocracy

- Aristocrats: members of the ruling class

- they attended symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and the company of hetaeras (courtesans) while discussing politics

an exclusive club

- no women except the “entertainment

- no middle class

- no slaves

- sometimes, even certain aristocrats were excluded

Tyrants seize control

- sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites (well-armed soldiers), and set up an alternative form of gov’t called a tyranny

- tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis

- modern meaning of tyrant: an abusive or oppressive ruler

- the Greek meaning of tyrant: someone who

clash of the tyrants

- Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE

- his brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh

- eventually he was expelled from Athens (this is called being ostracized)

- in revenge, he began working with the Persian king Darius I, helping them invade Marathon

2nd day on Project

Today during class, we continued working on our google slides. We have gotten through 75%. I think we can finish our slides by tomorrow or by Thursday. Rosemary finally is back. Thanks to her we have someone to work on the Peloponnesian war section. Caitlyn is working on the Spartan section, Im working on the Athens section, and Rosemarry is working on the Peloponnesian war section.

1st day on Project

Today during class, we got to spend time on working on our google slide. We got the topic Athens, Sparta, and Peloponnesian War. We spent the whole class working on it. We have accomplished making the tittle page, and the first slide on Athens and Sparta. We are working on other slide but we haven't finished. We have an idea of what we are going to write on each slide. We are going to talk about each subject first (Athens, Sparta, and Peloponnesian War). Then on the next slide, we will talk more in depth for each subject. We are also gathering information on comparison between Athens and Sparta. I think that we have finished 5% of our slide.

Birthday Day!

Today during class, the first thing we did was sing happy birth. I was surprised that Mr. Schick brought in a bag of Cheetos with a candle on top of it. I did even see it when I came in because I was wearing one contact. After that, Mr. Schick started going through the notes we took yesterday very quickly and then we took a small quiz with just 10 questions on it. The question were very easy. I messed up on 2 questions. I mixed up the 2 seas that were around Greece. We then started talking about what project that is coming up. We got to get into groups of 3 people for this project. The project is about different things that happened in Greece. My partners are Caitlyn and Rosemary. Rosemary isn't here but Caitlyn and I got to start.

Greece Notes #2

Geography / its significance

- Greece is a mountainous peninsula

- mountains cover ¾ of Greece

- approximately 1400 islands in the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Seas

- this combination shaped Greece’s culture

-had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders

- also farmers, metalworkers, weavers, potters

- they had poor / limited natural resources, so they needed to trade

- it was difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain

- they developed small, independent communities / city-states

More Geography

- although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only about 20% is suitable for farming

- Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives

- lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization

- back then, temperatures usually ranged from mid 40s in the winter to low 80s in the summer - although it could get hot in the summer, it was pretty nice year-round

Some early peoples - first, Mycenaeans

- their influence began around 2000 BCE

- Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20-foot thick wall

- Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE

- controlled trade in the region

- 1400 BCE-  Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language

Then, “sea people” & Dorians

- around 1200 BCE the mysterious “sea people” began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace

- so, the Dorians moved into this war-torn region

- Dorians were far less advanced

- the trade-based economy collapsed

- writing disappeared for 400 years

Enter Homer the storyteller

- Greek oral tradition - stories passed on by word of mouth

- Homer lived at the end of the “Greek Dark Ages”

- he composed stories of the Trojan War c. 750-700 BCE

~ The Iliad - probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans (the Trojan War)

~ The Odyssey - Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon

- The Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter

did Homer actually exist?
- the “Homeric question” - Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
-  a blind wandering minstrel; an heroic figure
- Iliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling
- or Homer actually existed

Cyber Day homework

Erechtheum
This building was built during the classical period of Greek art and architecture between 421-405 BC. It was building on the Acropolis of Athens. The building had a place of refuge for Athena Polias, Poseidon, and Erechtheus. The building was a porticoe on the east, north and south side. The eastern side has hexastyle Ionic which was the entrance to the shrine of Athena. The northern side has tetrastvle Inonic which gives access to the western cella through a doorway. The southern side has six female figures that support the building. 

The Temple of Apollo at Didyma
The temple of Apollo was built at Didvma in Turkey in 300 BC. This building is the fourth largest sanctuary in the Greek world after the Temple of Artemis. The temples design was dipteral which is two sets of columns surrounding the interior section. These columns reached 19.5 m high. These columns surrounded a small chamber that has a statue of Apollo.


The Temple of Athena Nike
The temple of Athna Nike was part of the Acropolis in the city of Athens. It was built in Didyma, Turkey around 300BC. The temple was completed in 420 BC. The temple was smaller than the other temples of Acropolis. The design of the temple was dipteral. The temple had a state of Athen Nike. In the states cella was made of wood and held a pomegrade in the right hand. The left hand held a helmet. 

Do nothing except talk day!!!!!!

Today during class, we talked about tomorrows cyber day because Mr. Schick can "predict" the future. Our cyber day homework for tomorrow is going to be about Greece's architecture. We have to write what was built and what they made. We also talked about people hating on the weather men because they can't predict the weather. Mr. Shick's prediction for what Parker is going to eat tomorrow is Poptarts. We also might not have school on Friday because there might be enough time to dig up all the snow for Friday.

Greece Notes

Today we started to learn about Greece.

Greece is the Word
- The worlds great civilizations are all located on rivers
- Greatest civilization/key river
  ~ Mesopotamia/Tigris
  ~ Egypt/Nile River
  ~ India/ Indus River
  ~ China/ Huang He River
- Mediterranean Sea: Middle of the Earth
- Greece Sea's: Left side of Greece: Adriatic, Right side: Aegean Sea
- Crete: Large island south/southeast of Greece

Egypt Test

Today we took the test on Egypt. I thought I wasn't going to do good because we have only had 3 days of class talking about Egypt. There were questions about the pharaoh, how long the Nile river is,  women rights, maat, hieroglyphs, and the pyramid game. I received a 81 on the test. I wasn't sure about some questions like what sea did the Nile river go into. I thought it was the Mediterranean sea. But I saw Black sea and I got mixed up. And for how long the Nile River is, I knew it was 500 miles, but then I saw other numbers and it got me mixed up.