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.