Looking over a test in class today

Today in class we looked over the end of the latest test we took on ancient Greece and the movie Greece the Crucible of Civilization. We then looked over two older quizzes on Egypt that were about Ancient egypt and a little about modern Egypt and the revolution that happened there. We also finalized what subjects we would do out spring break projects on and mine is still on the Greek Golden age or age of Pericles. Only Colleen and Amir traded. We are now on spring break and have a project to do.

Going over the Test in class today.

      Today we went over the test that we took in class. I got a 93 percent on it and i thought i did better. We looked over all the questions and answered them but the last few ones. We also learned about our spring break project. We have to make a lesson about whatever our subject we were randomly given was. Mine was the Greek golden age. You can do anything from a powerpoint to a song. I dont know what I am going to do yet but my subject seems pretty easy. Tomorrow in class we will finish reviewing the test and then we will continue watching Greece The Crucible of Civilization.

Taking a Test in class today.

      Today we took a test on the Greek movie. The movie was Greece the Crucible of Civilization. It was a test that was multiple choice and had 29 questions. It was about ancient Greece and people like Themisticles, Pericles, Isagoras, Aspasia, and Clesithenes.  It brought our final point count up to 400. I thought it was pretty easy. We will continue in class tomorrow.

Notes.

• Greeks started many things like science lit. drama and many new inventions
• Greeks had a powerful army that took down many powerful forces
• They had a powerful navy
• Famous dudes
• Themistocles
• Herocles
• Socrates( famous philosopher)
• THE GREEKS CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION
• In athens 500 BC people were revolting demanding freedom
• Clystenes was ruler at this time
• He gave these people freedom a first
• He begand the road to becoming a empire when he did this
• He was born aroun 570 BC
• From birth he was taught he was a arisocrat a ruler
• Athens where he grew up was a small town
• Built around a steep sided outcrop of bare rock
• This allowed them to be protected from invaders
• The town housed many trademans and not many people knew how to read or write life expectancy was 15 years not much medecine or science
• The common athenina lived under rule of athenian aristocrats and then the poorer people.
• Aristotle the famous writer said the world was living in unjustice and unfairness
• Athens didn’t grow because aristocrats only wanted to gain power
• Greece
• Doesn’t have the geographical looks to be an empire
• Greece also didn’t have many rivers or plains not useful fro building up a empire
• Greece had many city states
• The corinthians dominated greek trades
• The city sparta had army power
• This was because spartans were raised to be soldiers from birth
• They didn’t have many posessions
• Sparta conquered many regions around greece and threatened greece
• Greece was inspired by many stories and myths
• They picked up these stories from traveling bards who sold stories
• Two famous poems were made by the famous poet homer
• These poems showed heros whos strenght and power brought glory
• Clystenes was brought up with these stories and they shaped him and how he ruled
• He wanted to pursue a life of glory through strenght and get power and victory for him. To be a hero
• Heroditus roder into athens one day and came with a woman named athena claiming she was a goddess
• She want a god but got himr fule
• He gave them loans to build up farms and gave athenians a chance for prosperity
• People began to grow more vines and olives
• This helped people because olives were a very important economical thing
• As production soared athenians found  a big market for these
• Greece was in the middle of many great ancient civlizations so trade was easy
• Everyone wanted to trade for greek olives so they prospered and got many other things
• The consequence of this expansion was that art began and a vase was made
• Back then what was in the vase was more important
• They were made in RLD
• If you were a potter you were down low on the ladder
• Pots were useful for transferring water and thing usally and not art
• Athenians developed art on the pots
• This new style is still astonishing today
• Many greek pots are very valuable
• Greeks made these pots to outdo each other
• Athenians finally tasted freedom
• Clystenes turned Athens into a uinternationl economic power
• He died though
• His son hippias took over and followed his dad at first
• He soon turned into a tyrant rhough
• In 514 BC his bro got whacked
• Hippies behavior changed and then killed both killers and killed wife by torture
• Aristotle described his slide as revenge fro his bros death and he wanted revenge
• There was a tyranny in Athens
• He knew that aristocrats could take his him down
• Clystenes tried to overwthrow hippias to get power for him and his fam
• He made a conspiracy to topple him
• Clystenes was one of the most powerful figuresin athens
• Greek society was changing
• Every one could prosper now
• Olympia
• Here every 4 years greek men would compete
• Began in 1776 BC
• At first only rich people could compete buy by clys times anyone could compete andbe a a hero
• Chariot racing, running, wresting, boxing were included
• No prize but fame through greece
• About 40 k greeks would gather for games
• This was like a civilized way to be a hero
• Many people conspired against clystenes and included igsiorus
• HE WENT out of athens for support to get power
• Called for help from sparta
• He was an old friend of spartans
• The spartans gave him some of their best troops to help take Athens
• He gained control of athens
• He was a tyrant
• After he gained power he went after other cats like clystenes
• Clystenes left the city with a tyrant ruling with help of sparta
• He felt like all his kid stories were a lie and he couldn’t be like a hero and it all led to downfall
• Athens was rocked by an extraordinary event
• The ordinary people of athens revolted and took destiny into their won hands
• They rose up and took athns
• Isagorus and sparta blockaded themelves at the high point of the city but it was no help
• He only survived 2 days and then surrenfdered
• 508 BC
• This was the first step to athens rise to power and glory
• The atenians turned to one new amn now he was clystenes
• He built a government
• He had to build it himself for a new situation
• He had to give his citizens a say in their future
• He had a meeting place built on a athenians hillside and the citizrns of athen soculd come discuss future of athens
• Clystenes implemente dvoting by white pebble yes black pebble no
• They gathered every nine days to discuss issues
• He made the athenians the govt
• Normal greeks could be heroes in polotics
• Part 2
• 508 BC
• In athens pandomonium rules streets
• Ordindary people wanted freedom and turned on rulers
• Cleisthenes
• He gave them freedom to govern themselves
• Aristocrat a rich person who ruled
• Cleisthenes was an aristocrat
• Acropolis- it’s the outcropping of rock where athens was founded
• Many farmers and tradesmen lived in athens
• Life expectancy at birth was less than 15 years
• No science medicine, reading and writing was a rare skill
• Aristocrats owed everything and the poor people were almost like slaves but they were paid and treated badly so they were not
• Greece wasn’t a place that had geography to be great
• They had no main rivers or open planes
• Greece was very mountanis
• Because they were separated they all became small countries called city states
• Each had theit own cultures and histories
• Sparta was a big city state made for military, discipline, and war
• Cleisthenes was brought up by a self interested elite
• Ancient tales of myth inspired greece
• Traveling bards told these stories
• The illiad
• The odyssey
• Homer wrote these
• These stories were all about heroes
• Cleisthenes wanted to be one of these heroes
• He took these stories to heart
• Tyrant took over greece
• A tyrant is someone who comes in and takes control
• One man came in with a tall woman who said she was athena the man said she said he was destined to be ruler and he got rule yo
• Pisistratus was the one who took over cleisthenes was the one who took over

Quiz Tomorrow on this movie!!!

     Today we finished up the movie. We learned some final things like how Greece was destroyed. Pericles was the leader that brought Greece into the Golden age. He did many things that allowed them to advance. He built the famous Greek Parthenon. It was made from 20,000 tons of marble and it cost about 5000 talons to build or 1 billion dollars. It took about 15 years to build. It was the most glorious symbol of athens and displayed their power and glory on the acropolis. Also on this the normal people were glorified on the Freizi and were chiseled into it. Also Pericles was an aristocrat unlike Themisticles. He also had a "escore" Esposia who was a smart beauitful woman. She helped make decisions with Pericles and was one woman who was almost treated equally. This made some people angry. Also the first theaters were built in Greece and contained mainly comedies and tradgedies. Tradgedies would display a hero having his weakness exploited and falling. Finally Pericles had hubris or arrogance. He wanted to be the most powerful city in greece so he wanted to beat the Spartans. He would retratd and beat them from the sea.

Watching the movie on Greece in class 3/18/11

      Today we watched the movie about Greece in class again and took notes on it. We learned about Themisticles and how he saved Greece from being crushed by Persia. First of all he wasnt the normal rich, cultured, aristocratic leader that Athens usually had. He was a normal man and led thanks to democracy. He knew Persia would invade Greece again and began making ships called trirends to defend Greece. They were ships that could ram other ships and destroy them. He built 200 of these ships for war. He got the money by finding silver in Greece. The leader that would invade Greece was Xerxes. He wanted to avenge his fathers death so he wanted to burn Greece to the ground in revenge. He supposively had an army of about 2 million soldiers but he really didnt but he had the biggest army for his time. In 483 BC he set out for Athens. He ravaged all the Greek land as he moved on and turned it into a wasteland. The Greeks went to the oracle at Delphi to see of the Gods had a way for them to win. At first the Gods said they were doomed and should run away. Themisticles instead said that his ships he made would allow them to win the battle. Athens was evacuated and they prepared for war.
     The Athenians went to the island of Salamis to prepare for war as Athens was burned to the  ground. The Persian navy had 4 times as many ships as Athens but didnt have the triends. The Greeks wanted to face off in the strait of salamis to make up for the small navy. The Greeks got the Persians to go there by getting a guy to tell them that was the place they could win. The Greeks won when they beat the slow Persian ships in the small strait with their quick ships. They won and they became a superpower prospering and entering a golden age. One thing was that Themisticles was forced to leave because they thought he was becoming to powerful.

Watching more of "Greece The Crucible of Civilization."

     Today we watched the movie about Greece again. We saw how Athens became a free city from Spartan rule. Hippias was a tyrant who ruled Athens. After his brother was killed he became suspicious of everyone and treated people unfairly. He was overthrown by  Cleisthenes who used a conspiracy to do so.
     We also learned about the Olympics. They were held in Olympia and were a way for the average person to be a hero. At first the Olympics were only for the rich but after a while anyone could compete. The poorest person in Greece could beat a king and attain glory. The Greeks would gather in groups of up to 40,000 to watch this event and things like chariot races, and running took place. This was a way for anyone to be a hero.
     Once Cleisthenes took over again Isagoris conspired to take hime over. He got the help of Spartas military power and pushed Cleisthenes out of Athens and took tyrant rule. He oppressed people and took away freedom. He ruled from atop the acropolis with the Spartans and was powerful. The athen people revolted however and for three days fought back. On the third day they won and crushed Spartan rule. After that Cleisthenes was put back in power. He gave people the ability to vote on everything from the agora. The average person had power now and democracy was born. This is also the first recorded time people revolted against rulers.
     After Cleisthenes time the Persians tried to invade Greece.The Athen people came together and fought back against them. They came together without an army only hoplites and won. They killed over 6000 persians in one day. They saved their way of life and freedom Cleisthenes gave them. The story of Peliphede came from this as he ran a "marathon" from marathon to tell Athens of their victory. We will continue watching in class tomorrow.

Watching the movie again with Mr.Schick

     Today we watched the movie " Greece The Crucible of Civilization" again but this time with Mr.Schick to explain a few things for us. In 508 BC there was a revolution in Greece. People wanted freedom and the ability to have a say in Greece. Before the aristocrats controlled everything so the same families were always in control. The people wanted the average person to be able to have a say in the government. The man who gave Greece freedom was Cleisthenes. He gave them the ability to vote and have a say in the government. Cleisthenes himself was an aristocrat. He changed the way of life in Athens.
     Greece was a place that was very mountaious. The country was very divided because of this and was made up of separate city states. They hated each other at many times and fought. For example you had Athens, and Sparta. Sparta was a place where you were raised as a warrior. Another problem with Greeces landscape was that it had no rivers running through the country or open planes.It had its advantages though. For example Athens was built on top of a slab of rock so they had a good view of invaders and protection.
     Finally Greece was inspired by stories. Traveling Bards would go around and tell these stories. Some were the Illiad or the Odyssey. These were written by the blind poet homer.

Slideshow on Greece Today.

     Today we watched a slideshow about ancient Greece. We first learned about the geography of Greece. It is a very mountanous place and this separates Greece. They formed many separate city states and never really united in ancient times. About 1/4 of Greece was fertile valleys in between the mountains used for farming. Greece also had about 1400 islands they colonized. Because of the mountains sailing down and around Greece was easier than hiking through the mountains. Greece had many skilled sailors because of this. Also Greece didnt have many natural resources so they had to colonize many islands for resources. Finally temperatures range from around 48 in winter to about 80 in summer. Next we learned the Myceanas dominated Greece from about 1600-1400 BC. They were very smart and controlled trade in Greece. They were protected by a rocky ridge and 20 ft thick wall. They were overtook by the Dorians though and the dark ages began when there was no writing recorded and poems took over. One famous poem story teller was the blind poet homer. This lasted for about 400 years. We will learn more tomorrow.

Greece Crucible of Civilization notes

     Today in class we watched a movie about Greece the "Crucible of Civilization." It revolves around Greece and the story of Clystenes. He was a ruler who gave the city of Athens freedom. He grew up in Athens in a rich family who ruled the city in part. He listened to many stories about heroes who had glory through power and strength and he wanted to be like that when he grew up. He wanted to achieve this by being a ruler. Athens at the time was a small town and had many poor people who had no chance. He changed that when he became ruler by giving loans to people who began yo grow olives. This helped push Greece to a power because of the economic boost. Before this the Corinthians dominated Greek trade. Also Athens helped make what was nothing but a tool for carrying water to a work of art. The pot. Hippias took over though and turned into a tyrant. Clystenes toppled him though through a conspiracy. Athens was then tooken over by the military power Sparta but the people revolted took it back and put Clystenes in charge again and he made a democracy.

    The greeks also invented many other things like the Olympics at Olympia a civilized way to be a hero.

Reading in class again and looking at our amazing slideshow which is much better than the other sections.

     Today we reread some of the stuff from the history book. We then looked over our slideshow we colloborated to make. People did slides on Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, The Persian Empire, Marathon, Herodotus, Sparta, Barbarians and Ionia. We learned more about the battle of Marathon and the achievements of Cyrus and Darius. We also learned more about Barbarians like how the Greeks thought anyone living outside of Greece was a uncultured, uncivilized person or a barbarian. I also learned that Darius the great tried and failed many times to conquer Greece. We will watch a movie on Greece in class tomorrow since Mr. Schick will be gone and well take notes on it.

Making a Cool Slideshow today.

     Today in class Mr.Schick read to us about the ancient Greeks, Persia, and Sparta. It was from a book that talked about some bad things. Then we all started to work on a class project slideshow on google docs. It is about Ancient Greece and Persia. I am doing a slide on Cyprus the great. He was a leader of Persia who conquered many lands. His name meant like the sun and he ruled for about 29-31 years. He conquered Medes, Babylon, and Asia Minor. He also created the famous immortals unit for Persia. He was actually nice to the places he captured even though he conquered so many places and allowed religious freedom and respected other beliefs.
info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great#Dynastic_history

Taking A Eyptian Test in class today and singing the anthem.

      Today we took a test about Egypt during class. It took almost all class and was about modern and ancient Egypt. There was 20 multiple choice, 3 short answer, and 1 essay. It wasnt too hard but it wasnt really easy either. After that we had a round of singing the Egyptian anthem which sounded very funny. I think I did average on the test and a few questions confused me.

Mr.Schick is being a TV announcer once again.

     Today was out being a TV announcer in the play. We had two substitute teachers today. We had Mr. Paaby and Mr. Huber. We looked at a powerpoint on modern day Egypt and learned some new things. I learned that Egypts economy revolves around oil and natural gas manufacturing. They also have a small agriculture portion since only 3% of their land is farmable. They grow rice corn and beans. They also built a dam to control flooding of the Nile. They have a national flag that is red black and white. They speak mainly arabic but also English and German. Their main religion is muslim but have small traces of Christian Coptic. They have a population of 79 million people. They have bad religious conflicts and are 12th worst for religious violence and 5th worst for religious freedom.Their dam also makes a lot of electricity. Only 3 % of their land is arable and they make good cotton. They have had alliances with the US and Soviet Union. They have had 3 leaders. They also just had a big revolution.

Mr. Schick is in the play today.

      Today Mr.Schick was in the play so we had a substitute. We had mr. sutton as our sub and then Dr.Yueng. We went over the Prezi that we started watching yesterday about Ancient Egypt. Some other things I learned were about the Pharaoh and some more about Pyramids and daily life. We learned that the pharaoh had a few nicknames like lord of the two lands and high priest of every temple. He controlled all the lawmaking and taxes for Egypt. He also defended Egypt from invaders. There were a few female pharaohs throughout Egyptian history like Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. I learned that soldiers used wooden weapons with bronze tips. I also saw that Egyptian merchants were the first to implement a trading and bartering system. Mr. Schick will also be gone for the play tomorrow so we will have a sub again.

Mr.Schicks Prezi about Egypt.

      Today we watched a Prezi Mr.Schick made about Ancient Egypt. We learned about Pharaohs, gods, the geography of Egypt, and daily life. We learned that Egypt revolved around the Nile River. They believed it was involved with the Gods, and was a living breathing thing. It flooded ever year and gave them fertile land to farm on. It had a delta on it which is a triangular shaped, marsh like, end of the river. In Egypt's daily life they had a social ladder it went from Pharaoh, Government officials, scribes, merchants, artisans, farmers, and slaves. The higher up the ladder you were, the less of your kind there were. Many pyramids were built and took thousands of people to build them. The Sphinx was half lion and a human head. It was supposed to represent a guardian for Egypt since it was lying in a recumbent position. It is the oldest standing monumental statue and was built from 2555 BC to 2532 BC. The Egyptians were also very smart and figured out days from the suns pattern in the sky, months by the moons waning, and years by season changes and flooding patterns. Egypt also had many Gods that they worshiped and believed they all did a different thing fr Egypt from flooding the river to representing animals. We will continue tomorrow.

Rapping a test yo.

      Today we went over all the test questions so we can know them better for the exam. We rapped the out and   jammed out to some marky mark and the funky bunch. I did well on the test and got a 90 something. We will have some of the stuff that was on the test on the finals. The only question everyone got right was about domesticated animals. We will do something new tomorrow and be done with Papau New Guinea and Jared Diamond.