Rome

Rome

·       Vocabulary

o   Patricians – upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families.

o   Republic – in reference to ancient Rome, the system of city-states government in which decision-making power was shared between the Senate and other male citizens.

o   Plebeians – the Roman common people, including workers, small farmers, and wealthy people who were not patricians.

o   Senate – in ancient Rome, a government assembly appointed by the king, and under the Republic by the consuls.

o   Consuls – in the Roman Republic, two senators who led the government and military for one-year terms and appointed their own successors.

o   Dictator – in the Roman Republic, a single leader with full decision-making powers, appointed for a maximum six-month term during times of emergency.

o   Tribunes – Magistrates elected by the plebeians, who eventually gained the power to initiate and veto laws.

o   Client – a person who provides personal service in return for money and protection for a patron.

o   Patron – a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchange for personal services.

o   Pontiff – in ancient Rome, one of the Republic’s leading priests.

o   Paterfamilias – the “family father” in ancient Rome, who had unlimited power over his household.

o   Matron – title of honor given to a married women in ancient Rome.

·       Italy and Its People

o   Italy was situated astride the Mediterranean Sea, commanding every direction.

o   The settlers formed various tribal groups.

o   Around 750 BC, the settlements joined to form a single city-states, Rome.

o   The Etruscans were non-Indo-European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere east.

·       The Roman Republic

o   When a king died, his successor was chosen by the Senate.

o   Around 500 BC Rome overthrew its Etruscan rulers, and the monarchy was established.

o   They underwent a long and turbulent development under the influence of social struggles.

·       Republican Values

o   The “mixed government” was not just a system but a way of life.

o   A group of priests headed by the supreme pontiff who were leading magistrates of the Republic.

Test Day - Greece

Today is western civ, we took a test. It covered everything Mr. Schick said it would so no shocker there. But it covered the things on the quizlet, and the 58 point quiz paper. But a definite twist, it was open blog. In the past Mr. Schick had done that a few times on information that was difficult to remember, but he also does it probably to see how good our blogs are. I think that I did well, using my blog helped tremendously because otherwise I probably would have failed. I think our next chapter might me Rome? But I am not sure. We don’t have class tomorrow and no school Friday so our next class is bright and early Monday morning mods 2 and 3. Until then…

Pre Test Day / Notes

Today in Western Civilization we “studied” for the test tomorrow. Our studying included watching a very boring video. That’s the only thing we did in class today, our test is tomorrow. We are supposed to get 6 inches of snow tonight and into early tomorrow. That being said and we have off school we won’t take the test until Friday because we don’t have class Thursday. I hope we have off school tomorrow.


Notes:

1.     She was a trusted associate of Pericles, and may have even written some of his speeches.

Aspasia

2.     He was a war hero who had many adventures while trying to return home after the Trojan Wars.

Odysseus

3.     In 508 BC, he and his Spartan allies were driven from power by the very first “people’s revolution”

Isagoras

4.     This goddess is the patron of Greece’s capital city.

Athena

5.     An open “place of assembly” where Greek citizens would gather to discuss matters of importance.

Agora

6.     A sporting competition where the common man could actually compete against aristocrats.

Olympics

7.     A notion of excellence and virtue; the act of living up to one’s full potential.

Arête

8.     He composed the amazing stories The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Homer

9.     When these less-advanced people dominated Greece, writing disappeared for 400 years and the economy collapsed.

Dorians

10.  He watched from a golden throne as his forces were defeated at the Straits of Salamis.

Xerxes

11.  This city-state was home of democracy and the head of the Delian League.

Athens

12.  He was recalled from exile and asked to build the world’s first government of the people – a system of government we now know as democracy.

Cleisthenes

13.  The most beautiful and magnificent building of its time, it was dedicated to a goddess whose 40-foot stature was found within it.

Parthenon

14.  In a Greek tragedy, he was the main character who fulfilled a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

Oedipus

15.  This general rose from the ranks of the common people, and took steps to increase the naval power of Athens.

Themistocles

16.  An association of Greek city-states whose purpose was to remain strong and united against their enemies.

Delian League

 

17.  A fast, agile ship that was a feared weapon in the Greek navy.

Trieme

18.  This hero of ancient Greece is the central figure in a story which was the inspiration for a modern sporting even – the marathon.

Pheidippides

19.  He commanded the first Persian invasion of Greece, which ended with his defeat at Marathon.

Darrius

20.  Their kings dominated Greece from 1600 BC to 1200 BC.

Myceneans

21.  These legends describe Greek gods and goddesses and the nature of the world.

Myths

22.  The Greeks used trickery and clever naval strategy and to win this battle against the Persians.

Salamis

23.  He was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city’s Golden Age, who was determined to glorify his city through the arts, literature, and culture.

Pericles

24.  These are long narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds.

Epics

25.  These people ruled an empire that stretched all the way from Egypt and Asia Minor to India and the Himalaya Mountains.

Persians

26.  Apollo was said to speak prophesies through this person; an ominous prophesy caused the Greeks much worry before the Persians’ second invasion.

Oracle of Delphi

27.  This prominent city-state had a fearsome infantry and was located in southeastern Peloponnese.

Sparta

28.  He was the leader of the gods, and the father of the goddess of wisdom.

Zeus

29.  Mr. Schick wants to go back in time to hang out with this philosopher.

Socrates

  

Test Day Wednesday

Today we spent all of class going over the 58 point quiz thing. We are allowed to have food and drinks in class again so in the middle of 2 and 3 mods, we were allowed to go get food. I got a half and half Arizona iced tea. And that made me very happy. Our test will be on Wednesday even if we do not have school tomorrow. I really hope we have a delay tomorrow because cyber days suck and I didn’t bring home any of my books. But we heard the story of how Mr. Schick cannot pronunciation the word Hippolyta. It was one homer would have told. Well, until tomorrow…

Annie is Addicted

Today in Western Civ, we actually had a productive class! We found out that Annie is on crack, and we peer graded our projects. The best one in the class by far was Megan King’s. She had a video and a 6 slide storyboard. We rated her a 100, but she wasn’t here to defend herself. Besides all of that, Grant, Leah and I got a 90 for our project. I am happy with that grade because we came a long way from what we were going to show on that first Monday class. Quarter 3 ends today and grades have to be in by Tuesday morning. Mr. Schick said that he will grade all our blogs over the weekend. We are supposed to get snow again for about the 100^th time this year, so maybe a cyber-day? Oh well, until next time…

No Wifi in the Gym

Mr. Schick was not here today as planned. We went to the gym and our assignment was to finish the 58 point quiz worksheet. The internet in the gym is terrible, it was a very easy day and class. We will probably have our test next week hopefully, maybe even Friday. The third quarter ends Friday and grades are due before Tuesday morning at 8:30. We don’t have class tomorrow so until Friday…

Boring Tuesday

Western Civ today we finished the last two presentations of the Athens/Sparta Commercial. After that Mr. Schick found a quizlet with everything we would need to know for the test. Tomorrow Mr. Schick won’t be in class because of a St. Joseph’s Program training thing. We will finish the “58 Point Quiz” in either the gym or auditorium. So until tomorrow…

Happy St. Patty's Day!

1.      Mostly fertile land is not a characteristic of Greece.

2. Approximately 2/3 of Greece is covered by mountains.

3. The term barbarian as it was originally used in the ancient world. The word came from the Greek “barbarous,” which originally meant “Non-Greek.”

       4.    A megalithic structure are massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs.

       5.    The term tribe refers to a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship.

6.      Tribes were governed by warrior kings or queens, chieftains, and tribal leaders chosen by warriors.

7. The first European barbarians to make contact with civilization were the Greeks.

8. The United States would not be considered a member of “Western civilization”

9. The name of the sea located just west of the Greek mainland is the Ionian Sea.

10. The name of the sea located just east of the Greek mainland is the Aegean Sea.

11. The major crops of the Aegean people were onions, wheat and beer.

12. The Minoan civilization arose on the island of Crete.

13. The Mycenaean civilization established settlements along the Greek mainland’s southern shore and on some islands.

14. The Mycenaean civilization built massive walls to protect themselves from attacks.

15. The Dark Ages is a period of Greek history in which the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use.

16. Following this time period, the Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediterranean?

17. In historical writing, the letter “c” might appear before a date, as in “c. 1500 BC.”  That means around, about and or circa.

18. By 600 BC, Greek city-states dotted the coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.  These were called colonies.

19. Although they varied in size, ancient Greek city-states most closely resembled counties as a modern-day geographical feature?

20. Oligarchy, which in a small group of citizens dominated, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways.

21. In a democracy is where decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens.

22. In tyranny, a self-proclaimed dictator held power.

23. In monarchy, power is held by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son.

24. Spartans used this oligarchy for their government system.

25. At what age seven Spartan males begin their military training.

26. The wealthiest city-state in the ancient Greek world was Athens.

27. The high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town was known as the Parthenon.

28. The southern peninsula where Sparta was located is called Peloponnesus.

29. Triremes were massive fighting ships with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships.

30. Hoplite was a heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece.

  

Short answers.    

 

1.      The years the Dark Ages began and ended were about 1100 – 800 BC.

2.      The titles of Homer’s stories during the Dark Ages were “The Odyssey” and “The Iliad”

3. The word “Mediterranean” originally meant middle earth.

4.      Aristocrats were prominent and long-established Athenian land-owners.

Missing Grace

For the second time this week, Mr. Schick is out sick again. All we did was watch another video and take notes. The video was about the story of Pheidippides; the wars with Darius, Xerxes and the Persians; the brilliant leader Themistocles; the mysterious Oracle of Delphi; the battle in the Straits of Salamis; and why the Golden Age of Greece was so extraordinary. Annie and I were talking about how much things changed since Grace left us, and it’s a pretty sad thing to think about. She always kept things in order and a smile on Annie’s face. She was there to yell at Devin when he wouldn’t let Mr. Schick move onto the next slide, but we still loved her anyways. So until Monday, maybe Mr. Schick will be there, maybe not.

 

Commercial Presentation Day 2

Again in western civ, we watched almost the rest of the commercials. Kap, Ryan, Sung and Arri’s commercial took up the first mod of class. There commercial was okay, they definitely put in a lot of effort and the final product was a lot better than the one that I saw. The problem was that it didn’t make logical sense. Sung’s acting was spot on and amazing, would have won a Golden Globe without a doubt. Ryan was the narrator and didn’t mess up a single word. Arri was Arri, no further explanation needed. And Kap did everything else nessiceary. The reason I said that we almost got through the commercials is because Annie and Alexa still have yet to go, it was really strange though because we told Mr. Schick that they still had to go but he ignored everyone… alright. But anyways this wind is getting really scary outside! Stay safe and I’ll see you Friday!

Presentation Day 1

Because Mr. Schick was back in class today, we presented our projects. I think that we did well, we had the music to go with the story board which was very funny. A few more groups need to go tomorrow so that’s what we will do then. After we finish all of the projects we will probably move onto a new topic. I think that Mr. Schick said something in the beginning of the year that we will go in topic order of how they were traveled when they made history. If that is the case than our next topic will be Asia I think. Tomorrow all we have is the rest of the videos. So until then.

Final Touches

Western Civilization today was just like any other substitute day. Mr. Schick was sick so we had a sub. For the second mod our sub was Mrs. Deroba and our third mod sub was Mr. Bolden. All we did was make the finishing touches on our projects. Today Leah looked up good music for Sparta and Athens and found a song about Sparta and Athens that Mr. Schick would probably really like. Other than that we didn’t do much more in class. To make our poster look better we got cardboard from the library. Tomorrow we have to present the projects, our group will probably play our music of choice during our presentation to keep things moving along and make our presentation more entertaining. I’m nervous to present tomorrow but I just want to get it over with. A lot of people in our class did an actual commercial while my group did a storyboard. No that doesn’t mean my group was lazy it just means that we have a social life. So until tomorrow.

Boring Movie

In western civ today we had a sub because Mr. Schick is a chaperone on the Senior Retreat. All we did in class was watch the rest of the video. Our commercial is due on Monday and we will also present them at that time. My group is Grant, Leah and I and we picked Athens to present. So far we have the basic of what we need to do, today and over the weekend we will finish the story board. We all decided not to do a video because it would be very hard to get everyone together. I don’t think that it’s fair to not give us class time to work on the project because you said that you would but never did. And honestly, the video we watched was very boring and hard to keep up with. We had western civ second mod and while we were watching the video I thought I was going to fall asleep. See you Monday.

Extension!

Extension due date on the commercial project! Because Mr. Schick is going on the senior retreat trip on Friday, our commercial project will be due on Monday! Today we continued with the video, pausing when the important information comes up. Surprisingly we got a little bit past the 20 minute mark. The plan for Friday is to continue watching the video and taking notes. It will be difficult and different because we have never seen the video before so we, as a class, don’t know what to look for, while Mr. Schick does. We don’t have class tomorrow, our commercial project is due Monday, and I will talk more on Friday!

Athens or Sparta Commercial

Today in class we briefly started to watch a video. But for the very first part of class Mr. Schick gave everyone a heart attack with a fake pop quiz. He took an old quiz paper that he used to give, passed it out, and nobody knew any of the answers. After he explained to us that we aren't taking a quiz, yet, we started to "watch" a video. The video was 50 minutes long, and there were three parts in all. We also would pause the video once an answer, something important, or a question came up. Because today we were two hours late, and we already had a short class, we only got 7 minutes into the video. Our main focus is on the commercial due Friday. I have explain before that I’m stuck, and I still am. Hopefully I can think of something good before Friday. So, until tomorrow.

Cyber Day

For our cyber day assignment, we have to continue to work on our commercial. I am completely stuck and right now have no idea what to do. My group is Grant, Leah and myself. The project is due Friday, and as I've said before I think, the story board is mandatory but do make an actual video is extra credit. Hopefully we won't have school, so I hope I don't see you tomorrow!

TV Production / Western Civ

On Friday it was like we had TV Production class combined with Western Civ. We looked at two videos for Baltimore and Los Angeles. You could defiantly tell which video was not only made recently, but was produced better, the Los Angeles one. But as always there is a method to Mr. Schick’s madness. So instead of having a relaxed Friday, we instead have a project due. We have to create a commercial promoting either Athens or Sparta. We can work in groups and you don’t have to actually create a commercial, but that would give you a terrific grade. The most we have to do is create a storyboard of what we would produce. I’m excited and confused for the project, my main question will be at the bottom for Mr. Schick to answer later. But I am excited because I do have some interest in doing something like this when I’m older. And on Monday if we have a cyber-day we will continue to work on this. But my one question is: what time period does the commercial take place in? Like do we use the time period that actual Athens or Sparta took place in, or now? See you hopefully Tuesday!