We watched a video on Greece and Sparta learning about a city-state's way of life, military, rulers and their accomplishments. Since I was sick yesterday I didn't get to see the first 10 minutes but Im sure it wasn't much. We were told that the project due Friday is now due on Monday which gives those procrastinators some extra time.
Notes on video
Halot- a person who was captured by Sparta then turned into a slave
Aristocrat- member of the ruling class
When Cleisthenes ruled, there were 1000 city-states
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
Help me Jesus
We watched 2 videos on Baltimore and Los Angeles. We compared how each commercial was presented in terms of music, scenes, etc. We were then introduced to the assignment where we have to make our own commercial, showing off Athens or Sparta. It's worth a lot of points and I am scared. The Baltimore video we saw made us cry because of how boring we are. When I looked at the Los Angeles video I just was speechless. It went from showing you buildings and old people to like electro music and great scenery with sports, celebrities, the zoo, the aquarium, and much, much more. We don't have to do the assignment, because we are American, as stated by Bob, but there goes our education and then we will just lose our minds, picking up can in Los Angeles for nickels.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
new teacher
Today Andrew was out teacher, presenting his like 7 page word document filled with notes and had pictures as well...making it the best presentation EVAR. Mr. Schick was examining him and every now and then, he would tell us that some of the things Andrew was saying, was going to be on the test. Grant broke his computer and couldn't do anything and Sam was here. We just went over the notes we took on Monday with Athens and Sparta, so we didn't really learn anything else new. However I did learn that the land, which Sparta lies is called Peloponnesia.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
More on Greece
Geography
Mountainous Peninsula
3/4 of Greece
Approximately 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
-Location shaped its culture
-Skilled sailors
-Poor natural resources
-Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small; independent communities
-Approximately 20% suitable for farming
-Fertile valleys cover 1/4 of peninsula
-Because of geography the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
-Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
-Temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
Mycenaean's
Began around 2000B.C.
-Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
-Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600 to 1200 B.C.
controlled trade in the region
-1400 B.C. Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
"Mediterania"-the middle of the earth
Culture in Decline
-Around 1200 B.C. sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
-The Dorian's moved into the war-torn region
-far less advanced <<<<<Dark Ages
-economy collapsed
-writing disappeared for 400 years
Homer and Myths
-Stories were passed on by word of mouth
-Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
-Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad and The Odyssey
-Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaean's
-Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter
-The Iliad was an epic poem and was written in verse and it was huge
Mountainous Peninsula
3/4 of Greece
Approximately 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
-Location shaped its culture
-Skilled sailors
-Poor natural resources
-Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small; independent communities
-Approximately 20% suitable for farming
-Fertile valleys cover 1/4 of peninsula
-Because of geography the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
-Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
-Temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
Mycenaean's
Began around 2000B.C.
-Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
-Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600 to 1200 B.C.
controlled trade in the region
-1400 B.C. Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
"Mediterania"-the middle of the earth
Culture in Decline
-Around 1200 B.C. sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
-The Dorian's moved into the war-torn region
-far less advanced <<<<<Dark Ages
-economy collapsed
-writing disappeared for 400 years
Homer and Myths
-Stories were passed on by word of mouth
-Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
-Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad and The Odyssey
-Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaean's
-Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter
-The Iliad was an epic poem and was written in verse and it was huge
Monday, February 24, 2014
LO3
Greek City sates were small places, generally consisting of no more than a town and a few square miles of surrounding countryside.
Athens and Sparta
-were about the same size as a couple of U.S.counties
-were fiercely competitive
-constantly fought each other
-most important civic activity was worshipping a god or goddess
Athens
- population may have reached as many as 250,00
- Was built around a hill, at the top stood an acropolis
- city of the goddess Athena(Athena's temple, Parthenon, overlooked the whole city)
acropolis- a combination of temple and fortress precinct
Greece was protected by many miles of land and sea. With no universal empire to keep them in order, the city-states were free to struggle among themselves. They occupied a land that was far less wealthy than Mesopotamia or Phoenicia. In their conflicts with one another, they could not afford professional soldiers or large cavalry forces. Instead they came to rely mainly on infantry armies made up of their own male citizens. They equipped themselves with bronze helmets and armor, round shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords.
They fought in formidable shock units of several hundred men each know as phalanxes or "rollers. Poorer citizens fought as light armed infantry, harassing the enemy ahead of the phalanx's charge or covering its vulnerable flanks.
Each city state was believed to have been founded and developed by a family or clan descended from a divine or semi divine founder.
Government
Vocab
monarchy- government by kings
oligarchy- government by few
tyranny- the rule of a tyrant
democracy- literally, government by the common people)
Monarchy
Citizen armies gave way to new forms of government that distributed power more widely among male citizens.
Oligarchy
A minority of citizens dominated the government, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways. Many city states in mainland Greece were oligarchies, above all Sparta.
Tyranny
Self proclaimed dictator who held power partly by force, partly by exploiting internal divisions, and partly by providing efficient government.
Democracy
All government decisions were made by the majority of male citizens.
Sparta
Decedents of the Greeks who had conquered part of the southern mainland, the territory of Lanconia. By the 8th century B.C., they were a minority of landholders ruling over a majority of helots, decedents of earlier Greek immigrants.
Through the Laconian helots were the relatively well treated and even fought in the army, the Messenians were harshly exploited, never accepted their defeat, and often rebelled. To hold down the helots, the Spartan citizens had to accept a government system that put them under almost total domination by a few among themselves.
The Spartan government was a leading example of oligarchy
Spartan Life
Women were the organizers, they had to set up fairs, etc. but they didn't have power when it came t politics.
Boys were taken from their families at age 7 and they were taught manly behavior and reading as well as writing. They also had to undergo a life long routine of physical toughening and military training.
To protect their harsh and rigid way of life, the Spartans tried to seal off their city state from outside influences. Sparta had little contact with foreigners; it discouraged trade and showed visitors little hospitality.
The state did not control women as rigorously as men, and for long periods they lived apart from their husbands, so that they led relatively free and active lives.
Persian Wars
Persians conquered a realm that stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean. For the first time, a universal empire had come within striking distance of the Greeks, and the Persians were able to bring the Greek city states in the west of Asia Minor under their rule.
490 B.C. Persians lost the first battle to the Athenians at Marathon. Ten years later, in a sea battle off the island of Salamis near Athens, the Athenian navy smashed the Persian fleet. On land a small spartn force held up Xerxes' army in their renowned suicidal stand at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
After Athens was burnt down, Democracy came into effect with the new Athens. The leader of the democratic Athens after the victory over Persia, was an aristocrat named Pericles.
Assembly
Meetings were held once a week and there was usually less than 5 thousand citizens attending.
-The Assembly met in the marketplace of Athens(agora), later it met on the slopes of a nearby hill(the Pnyx)
-Voting was by a show of hands.
Aliens
The 50,000 or so resident aliens were a very varied group. Some were wealthy business men, or independent women like Aspasia, who socialized on equal terms with the "fine and noble" citizens. Many were owners of stores and workshops, hardly different from citizens in the same lines of business.
Slaves
They were the powerless and the unpopular
Athens and Sparta
-were about the same size as a couple of U.S.counties
-were fiercely competitive
-constantly fought each other
-most important civic activity was worshipping a god or goddess
Athens
- population may have reached as many as 250,00
- Was built around a hill, at the top stood an acropolis
- city of the goddess Athena(Athena's temple, Parthenon, overlooked the whole city)
acropolis- a combination of temple and fortress precinct
Greece was protected by many miles of land and sea. With no universal empire to keep them in order, the city-states were free to struggle among themselves. They occupied a land that was far less wealthy than Mesopotamia or Phoenicia. In their conflicts with one another, they could not afford professional soldiers or large cavalry forces. Instead they came to rely mainly on infantry armies made up of their own male citizens. They equipped themselves with bronze helmets and armor, round shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords.
They fought in formidable shock units of several hundred men each know as phalanxes or "rollers. Poorer citizens fought as light armed infantry, harassing the enemy ahead of the phalanx's charge or covering its vulnerable flanks.
Each city state was believed to have been founded and developed by a family or clan descended from a divine or semi divine founder.
Government
Vocab
monarchy- government by kings
oligarchy- government by few
tyranny- the rule of a tyrant
democracy- literally, government by the common people)
Monarchy
Citizen armies gave way to new forms of government that distributed power more widely among male citizens.
Oligarchy
A minority of citizens dominated the government, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways. Many city states in mainland Greece were oligarchies, above all Sparta.
Tyranny
Self proclaimed dictator who held power partly by force, partly by exploiting internal divisions, and partly by providing efficient government.
Democracy
All government decisions were made by the majority of male citizens.
Sparta
Decedents of the Greeks who had conquered part of the southern mainland, the territory of Lanconia. By the 8th century B.C., they were a minority of landholders ruling over a majority of helots, decedents of earlier Greek immigrants.
Through the Laconian helots were the relatively well treated and even fought in the army, the Messenians were harshly exploited, never accepted their defeat, and often rebelled. To hold down the helots, the Spartan citizens had to accept a government system that put them under almost total domination by a few among themselves.
The Spartan government was a leading example of oligarchy
Spartan Life
Women were the organizers, they had to set up fairs, etc. but they didn't have power when it came t politics.
Boys were taken from their families at age 7 and they were taught manly behavior and reading as well as writing. They also had to undergo a life long routine of physical toughening and military training.
To protect their harsh and rigid way of life, the Spartans tried to seal off their city state from outside influences. Sparta had little contact with foreigners; it discouraged trade and showed visitors little hospitality.
The state did not control women as rigorously as men, and for long periods they lived apart from their husbands, so that they led relatively free and active lives.
Persian Wars
Persians conquered a realm that stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean. For the first time, a universal empire had come within striking distance of the Greeks, and the Persians were able to bring the Greek city states in the west of Asia Minor under their rule.
490 B.C. Persians lost the first battle to the Athenians at Marathon. Ten years later, in a sea battle off the island of Salamis near Athens, the Athenian navy smashed the Persian fleet. On land a small spartn force held up Xerxes' army in their renowned suicidal stand at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
After Athens was burnt down, Democracy came into effect with the new Athens. The leader of the democratic Athens after the victory over Persia, was an aristocrat named Pericles.
Assembly
Meetings were held once a week and there was usually less than 5 thousand citizens attending.
-The Assembly met in the marketplace of Athens(agora), later it met on the slopes of a nearby hill(the Pnyx)
-Voting was by a show of hands.
Aliens
The 50,000 or so resident aliens were a very varied group. Some were wealthy business men, or independent women like Aspasia, who socialized on equal terms with the "fine and noble" citizens. Many were owners of stores and workshops, hardly different from citizens in the same lines of business.
Slaves
They were the powerless and the unpopular
Friday, February 21, 2014
Greece!
Today we learned about how Greece invented new ideas, democracy, art forms, and they had innovators in welfare. We talked about Stonehenge, which was a megalith. Megalith's a re rough cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs. We talked about LO1 as well. in 4000 B.C. farming and village life spread from Sumerian and Egyptian lands across SW Asia and NE Africa, and the European continent. Their lives centered around strength and courage, comradeship and loyalty, contests and battle. Also know as "Arete"
We talked about barbarians. They had a destructive way of life that focused on farming and warfare. They moved to southeastern Europe by 2000 B.C. The Greeks shared knowledge and adjusted the barbarians way of life. THEEEEEEEEEEEEEE END
We talked about barbarians. They had a destructive way of life that focused on farming and warfare. They moved to southeastern Europe by 2000 B.C. The Greeks shared knowledge and adjusted the barbarians way of life. THEEEEEEEEEEEEEE END
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Pyramid challenge...
Today, we did the pyramid challenge, being a pain in the butt, it was impossible to beat and still is. At least, for me it is. If we complete it tonight, we get half points, but we have to take screenshot of it to prove it. hope I can do it..
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