friday, 24

I'm sorry i missed class today. i had a doctors appointment to go to. i looked on the website to see what to do and I'll study over my notes for Tuesday!

may 22

what happened today:

david and max were BORING! and grace and kelley acted stuff out.

this was SOOOOOOOOOOO Boring i wouldve done much better.

may 21st

Today in class we took notes

Feudalism
-government system and relationships between land owners and warriors.
-warriors = knights
-pledge allegiance to landowners and they got some land for it
-fief = property
-vassal = lords "servant"
-fight when needed and apear at court once a month
That's the feudal compact

Homage
-pay homage to the lord
-homage = honor them, kneel, say an oath
-apprentices to knights learn the how to
-fief of dead man would go to his son or daughter and the lord will take care of them if underage

Church
-clergy fought as knights sometimes

Feudal States
-Barons = lords of large areas of land that paid homage to a king
-baron's army could outnumber the king so they kept a check on the king's power

Manorial Estate
-clergy, nobility, commoners
-peasantry farmed on manors
-iron plows and water powered grinding mills, wasn't much of a harvest
-three field system, 2 = plant in spring and fall, 1 left to refertilize, rotated

People
-woman ran household operations
-peasants were serfs, they were bound to the land and the lord

Appearence
-most towns were surrounded by walls
-suburbs were outside the walls
-towns had a main church that looked snazzy
-central marketplace
-churches had few windows
- craft guilds were in the center of town

-Free People heirarchy
merchants
craftsmen
unskilled
apprentices
serfs

tuse, wed, fri

im sorry that i was absent tuseday wednesday and friday. im reading up on everything that i missed.

question things

What does Gospels mean?
-good news
When did Constantine rule?
-(306-337)
What god did they sacrifice to?
-Jupiter
Who lit the fire?
-the never found out but decided to torture Christians anyway

may 7/8

tuseday may 7

We reviewed the test and i actually got a 100! we also really got into Christianity in Rome. i also got a 100 on that pop quiz. we took notes on the power point



wednesday may 8

Sorry i was absent today. i wasn't feeling good. im writing that assignment though. thank you for giving me until tomorow!

monday, may 6

today in class we took a test that i was NOT prepared for but it was pretty easy and i think i actually did well. after the test we read LO-2 in our book and it was all about christianity and the jews and jesus and everything. im gonna reread it and eventually post notes on here.

Monday 29

today in class we watched the bbc movie on youtube. we learned how tiberius really tired to stand up for the people while people like octavius and the senate was really self absorbed. i love watching bbc movies/shows cause they are just always so great. it was really interesting to learn what the roman's thought on humiliation was.

Monday - Wednesday

monday the 22- we watched ppls videos and oh god the song got repetetive

tuseday the 23- i was absent. i didnt feel good. at all....

wednesday the 24- we took a test thing and i was not prepared but i think i still did well.

April 10

Today in class we got a treat! the famous Schick Cago came in and rapped for us. it was a whole song THAT HE WROTE THE LYRICS TOO HIMSELF about rome. we refined our notes a bit more.

April 9th

today in class we got our tests back I COULDVE GOTTEN 100% but i changed my mind on a question and got it wrong we went over the answers to the test and then we revised the stuff we blogged about last night.

Rome LO-1, April 8 and revised on April 9

Romans took the Greek way and improved on it in govt and warfare

two groups arrived in the latins- etruscans and greeks and latins -1st at the tiger river
Etruscans - non-indo-european immagrants who arived in italy from the east in about the 9th century BC
gained control of territory to the north of the latins - etruria
city states under kings
lots of greek and eastern influence.
some etruscan kings ruled rome for a time
rome adopted gridiron plan for cities gladiatorial combat and the masonry arch from etruscans.
adopted the alphabet from greece
farming in italy had same farming reasources as greece
not as mountains
more population

thought rome was placed there by gods - meant to rule everything

senate picked and usually made up of patricians- upper class who had noble roman blood aristocrats.
successor to the king was chosen by the senate
500BC rome overthrew etruscan rulers
TARQUIN THE PROUD- last monarch, tyrant, all his fault
Tarquins son raped a very high upstanding person. tarquin didnt punish his son, lady killed herself :everyone overthrew the king
government became the "peoples business" RES PUBLICA
republic-city state govt which was shared control by the senate and male citizens
mix of a democracy and an oligarchy
Patricians- aristocrats
Plebeians- everyone else 
after 509 BC -
Consuls- two senators who led govt an military for 1 year terms and appointed their own successors
they could veto eachother if its a bad idea
Dictator- single leader with full control, had max leader time 6 months, time of emergency
plebeians wanted power, rebelled a little
seneate needed a plan to let them share govt

lacked legal protection, writen around 450 BC
THE TWELVE TABLES
posted publiclyh

tribunes- consuls elected by the plebeians, gained power and even had enough to make laws and veto them
system of govt was widely admired

leadership of the republic still was in the senates hands

Client-provides personal services in return for money and protection from a patron
Patron-a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchange for personal services
pontiff- one of the leading priests

families and clans were led by the paterfamilias - family father who had unlimited control over the household

Tuseday march 26th

we took more notes on the presentations and watched a bit of the Alexander the Great movie.
alot of the notes were about battles that Alexander fought and how the indians rode elephants and about the king dying

march 20th

Today in class we got assigned a group to work with on a powerpoint project. i thought my group was gonna be terrible but the people i got worked better that i had expected so that was good! i was doing the slides on Alexander's horse, Bucephalus. it was really neat to reed about this. i think im finished my slides.

March 19

Today in class we really started the introduction into the next chapter. we talked about how the greeks kept advancing even after their war with sparta. The Macedonians seem like pretty cool guys, adapting other cultures and stuff. We also started talkin about the great Alexander the Great. its kind of awesome that he was became such a great leader at such a young age and about home much he expanded. its such a shame he died so early.

Monday, March 18

Today in class we had to take our chapter 4 test. I found it quite easy. After the test we were to read LO-1 of the next chapter and then write about it in our blogs - so here i go.

The Hellenistic era was when the Greeks were in control of much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia. The term Hellenistic comes from a Greek word meaning "to behave like a Greek". Its the way Alexander ruled by allowing the cultures to mix under greek rule. The period of greek history between the death of the Macedonian king and the rule of Alexander the Great (a Macedonian).

The Peloponnese war was the climax battle between Sparta and Athens. Athens was taxing other city-states even after the persian war and that ticked people off. Those people told sparta to take Athens out and so they did. Athens was already in a naval war with Corinth, a Spartan ally and also Athens was kind of unlucky. In 430 B.C. a plague struck Athens killing thousands, including Pericles. even though they recovered, the leadership was terrible. In 413 B.C. Athens lost 2/3 of its fleet against Syracuse. With the help of persia, another ally, sparta built up a naval fleet to take out athen's now small fleet. They crushed them in 405 B.C. and athens was starved into surrender.

To study

This is just the rest of the study guide things for the test


Homer- blind poet who composed the iliad and Odyssey and he went around  singing his stories

Odysseus-  hero in The Odyssey- trying to find his way home and kept having to face strage obstacles by the gods

Zeus- ruler of the sky and all the gods

Athena- patron god of Athens, goddess of wisdom

Pisistratus- came to Athens with a long haired, tall women he claimed to be Athena, Declared himself a king, gave common people rights to succeed

Cleisthenes- created democratic republic, people put him in charge after Isagoris

Darius the Great - king of Persia during the Persian wars, tried to conquer Greece lost the battle of marathon, people had to cover their mouths in his presence as to not taint the air

Xerxes- Darius’s son who sent two Greek expeditions to the mainland, he sought for revenge because of the straits of salamis

Pidipoties- runner in Athens, ran from Athens to sparta

Themistocles- ruled Athens, defeats Persians. not an aristocrat, was ostrisized

Pericles- aristocrat who was leader of Athens after victory over Persia, built the Parthenon Delian league,

Espeja- "high class prostitute" but she was a refined, intelligent, beautiful women "high class escort"

Aristophanes- Greek play write that specialized in comedies tragedy-Edopis

Socrates-well known Greek philosopher

March 15

Today in class we reviewed the last chapter test that we took (and we got mini muffins). i got a decent score. i was happy with it.

we also cleared up some of the info on the study guide for chapter 4.


1600 – 1100 BC : the myceneans were thriving around 1600BC-1200BC. Greek barbarians were adapting and learning new things.
1200s BC : Mycenean settlements are destroyed or abandoned and they dissapear
1150 – 750 BC : dark ages
776 BC : first Olympics are taking place. Becomes HUGE part of greece
750 – 700 BC : Homer was writing books. Triremes were being built to use in the navy.
621 BC: Draco wrote really harsh harsh harsh punishments
508 BC : Sparta attacked Athens and Cleisthenes fled the city. Isagoras seizes power. There was an oligarchical government. Isagoras was forced out AND DEMOCRACY WAS EVENTUALLY FORMED!
490 - 471 BC : The Persians attack Athens
490 BC : victory at the battle of Marathon for Athens. First person invasion of Greece
480 BC : The Persian lost in a battle and lost 200 ships and they fled. Greeks one the battle of Salamus
480 – 430 BC : there were tons of battles between the greeks and the persians
461 – 429 BC: the delian league formed. The age of periclese
447 – 438 BC: the Parthenon was being built. Athens was at its height. They declared war on Sparta.
431 – 404 BC: more war against Sparta. Plague came to the city through grain boats and around 20,000 people died,  parapelesian war
399 BC: Socrates was put to trial a found guilty cause he thought that all gods should be good or not be gods at all.
336 BC: final end of Athenian democracy      

March 11th and 12th

im out of school because my depression came back again. i'll be sure to get ny notes and other assignments that we've done.

March 8th!!!

MY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! i missed class today because i was on the art feildtrip! AMAZING BIRTHDAY!!! sad i missed part of the video :(

CANT WAIT FOR MONDAY! WOOO!