Mr. Andrew Teaching Day 2

Because Kappel was the teacher on Monday, Mr. Schick wanted to see what he said. So today Kappel taught us again and we also took notes;

• Possible test information;
• Athens and Sparta were each a couple of US counties in size.
• Greece was not controlled by a universal empire, allowing city states to fight.
• Phalanx; the Greek soldiers formation in army.
• Other important information;
• Oligarchy; minority of citizens dominated the government.
• Citizen was a white, male, landowner.
• Women had little to no power in government.
• Had more power overall in Sparta.
• Not in government.
• Mostly ran the business' while the men were at war.
• Sparta;
• Had a very good military.
• At age 7, boys were taken away from their families for extreme military training.
• They were allowed to marry at age 20.
• The bachelors were punished. 
• The area where Sparta is, is called a Peloponnesus.
• Athens;
• Had a good navy.
• Gave more freedom than Sparta but were still very war like.
• When the boys were 18 they would leave for 2 years of military training.
• Golden Age = 460-430 BC.
• After the war between Sparta and Athens, Sparta won, and Athens never grew back the same confidence.
• Forced Persia to make peace in 445 BC.
• Athenian Democracy power world rest in the adult male citizens hands.

Oh... that's why he didn't come home for 10 years...

Western Civ was filled with note taking on ancient Greece, which are below;

    Geography

o   Mountainous peninsula.

§  Mountains covered about ¾ of the area.

o   Approximately 1400 islands in Aegean & Ionian Seas.

o   Location shaped its culture.

o   Skilled sailors.

o   Poor natural resources.

o   Difficult to unite together because of the terrain; developed small, independent communities.

o   Approximately 20-25% was suitable for farming.

o   Fertile valleys cover ¼ of peninsula.

o   Because of the geography, the Greek diet was grains, grapes & olives.

o   Lack of resources lead to Greek colonization’s.

o   The temperature in winter was 48 and 80 in summer.

    Mycenaean’s;

o   Began around 2000 BC.

o   Located on rocky ridge and had a 20ft thick wall.

o   Kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BC.

§  Controlled trade in their region.

o   1400 BC they invaded Crete & absorbed Minoan Culture.

o   Mediterranean = middle earth.

    Culture in Decline

o   In 1200 BC, sea people invaded Mycenae & burnt down every palace.

o   The Dorian’s moved into the war-torn region.

§  Far less advanced.

§  Economy collapsed.

§  Writing disappeared for 400 years.

§  Also known as the Dark Ages, 1200-1800 BC.

    Homer & Myths

o   Stories were orally told.

o   Homer lived at the end of the Dark Ages.

o   Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad & the Odyssey.

§  Written 750-700 BC.

o   The Trojan War was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaean’s.

o   Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter.

LO3 - Athens vs Sparta

Vocab;

• Hoplite
• A heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece.
• Phalanx
• a unit of several hundred hoplites.
• Monarchy
• a state in which supreme power is held by a single ruler.
• Oligarchy
• a state in which supreme power is held by a small group.
• Triremes
• massive fighting vessels with three banks of oars.
• Tyranny
• rule by a self proclaimed dictator.
• Democracy
• (ancient Greece) a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making.
• Helots
• noncitizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city of Sparta.  
• Aristocrats
• members of prominent and long-established Athenian families.
• Ostracism
• banishment for ten years by majority vote of the Athenian Assembly. 

City-States and Citizens;

- The Dark Ages began to develop into city-states
- Greek city-states were small places, mostly a few square miles surrounding the countryside
- Fortresses and temples were vitally important to the city
- Fiercely competitive
- Worshiped Gods or Goddesses
- The Greek language was the first language to have a word for a member of a community

Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy:
- City-states = ruled by kings and their warriors
- City developed into large commercials gave more power to majority
- City states = narrow and exclusive
- They sent citizens to overseas = independent states

Greek City-states:

- Small places, generally consist of no more than a town and a few square miles of countryside.
- Athens and Sparta were giants among city-states 
          - About the size of a couple US counties
          - Each only had about a few thousand people
          - The male citizens went to war for the Greeks
          - They had to pay for the things that they carried into war with them 
          - Such as bronze helmets and armor, round shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords.
          - Alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt there now appeared a third great civilization: that of classical Greece.

Good & Bad News

Western civ today was filled with good and bad news. The good news is that Mr. Schick won’t be in class on Monday because he is going to the holocaust museum with the senior class. The bad news is that Kappel is teaching the class, which should be very interesting. For Monday, in the beginning of class we’ll read a section out of the book and take notes, then for the last 15 minutes of class, Kappel will go over his notes with the whole class as the “teacher”. Today all we did was go over/fix our notes on the learning objective 1. We also had “testing teachers” first was Laura, then me. For my notes I took my original notes, some of Laura’s, and Mr. Schick’s. When I’m older, I want to be a teacher surprisingly, so today was fun for me. Have a good weekend, and Mr. Schick, try not to cry at the museum.

Discusting

Western Civ today we still haven’t started on ancient Greece. But we went over the tests today and I got a 96. The only question that I got wrong was number 17. The question was, how long ago was the Great Sphinx of Giza built? I remember going over it in class because Kappel did the math but he was a year off. But obviously I got it wrong. Other than that I did fine on the objective part. I got a 38/40 for the essays so that puts me at about a 103/106 or somewhere around there. As I said before, our next topic is ancient Greece, in the test today we went a little about it because of one of the options for the test was olives. And Mr. Schick was getting really annoyed how everyone kept asking which question we were on so he said he would decapitate the next person to say that’s head and poop down their next. Which was really disgusting. So until tomorrow…

 

Stupid "Game"

Western Civ was extremely stupid today. We played a stupid game about pyramids. It was pointless. And the worst part of all was that whoever finished first got a 20/20, then so on and so forth. If you didn’t finish it before class was over, then you would have had to send Mr. Schick a screenshot once you’ve completed it. It was the most pointless thing ever. Onto another topic, tomorrow we should start learning about ancient Greece. But you never know because we were supposed to start ancient Greece today. We took out Egypt test Monday also, he hasn’t put the grades in for that yet though. I think I did okay, I knew about Egypt but not as much on Mesopotamia or the other Era’s. Mr. Schick added up all the possible points and there is a possible 108 point. Well that’s all so until tomorrow.

The Beginning of Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

• New ideas.
• Incredible art forms.
• Life was based on farming and warfare.
• In 2000BC they began to migrate to Europe's southeastern region.
• Its land was between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
• Citizen participation government (democracy).
• Main business life was farming.
• Population was smaller compared to Egypt and Mesopotamia.
• First barbarian people to make contact with civilization.
• The distinctive civilization they developed is the first that counts as "Western"

Vocab

• Barbarian - used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare and tribal organization.
• Megaliths - massive rough-cut stone used to construct tombs and monuments.
• Normally built by a farming and trading people in the west England about 2000 BC.
• Most impressive achievement was the Stonehenge.
• Consisted of 160 massive boulder, each about 50 tons.
• Each stacked and circled and aligned to the movements of the sun and moon.
• Tribe - social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests.
• Fought each other for metals, slaves, and other things that can be exported.
• Chieftains - king or queens.

European Barbarians

• 4000 BC
• Farming and village life spreads from Sumerian and Egyptian lands
• 3500 BC
• Constructed megaliths
• 2500 BC on
• Indo-Europe nomads migrated
• Their language would evolve into Greek and Latin
• Their lives centered around strength, courage, comradeship, loyalty, contests, and battle.
• No cities, written records, or fixed structures of government.
• Adopted the way of life of those that encountered.
• How civilization eventually spread through Europe.