presentation day

today we presented our powerpoint on Greek gods today. I thought it went alright, we had some trouble on pronouncing the names and we went a couple minutes over time but everything was alright. Two other people went before us, I thought it was alright. I'm excited for Zack, Ham, Conner, and Logan's because they made a video, they're going first on Monday. That will be a fun class. I definitely know we got points taken off but hopefully, things will end up ok and I'll start off the fourth quarter well.

today

today we had a sub, but I was only here for about the last 10 minutes on class because I was at a doctors appointment. My concussion is all good, I need to stay out of physical stuff for a while but it's nice to feel back to normal. But besides that, I have no idea what happened in class because I wasn't here.

project prep day

today we started getting ready to present our projects. We're pretty good. I'm done the powerpoint, Gabe is almost done the cupcakes and Stefan is working on the essay. I feel pretty good. Mr. Schick says we're presenting fourth. But I'm actually kind of excited, which isn't normal but hey, what the heck. It's always better coming into a project confident. I am doing finishing details tonight. We'll have another prep day tomorrow because Mr. Schick won't be here and we'll start presented Friday. I really hope it goes well.

greece test

today we took our test on Greece. I don't feel super confident considering I study half the wrong stuff. Also, my head hurt, considering I also got a concession over the weekend. Gotta love it. This is the second to last day of the third quarter and I wasn't going to let a concession ruin all A's. However, considering how I feel about this test, I don't think it will stay that way but I need to have high hopes. I'm really proud of myself and how I've done freshmen year and hope I can stick it out from the last quarter

Greece powerpoint part 4

• persian empire vs Greece
• greece appears little and insignificant
• persian empire is huge
• persian have a huge army and nearly unlimited resource
• greek army
• iron weapons menat ordinary citizens could afford to arm themselves
• foot soilders (hoplites) trained from an early age
• armed with spears, swords, and shields
• often fought in a phalanx formation
• home feild advantage
• motivated to preserve democracy, which made them win the war
• persian army
• first archers
• then cavalry
• then lightly armored infantry
• huge number
• a long way from home
• professional army (mercenaries, paid to fight)

Greece power point part 3

• hippias
• trrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE
• after his brother was murdere his rule became harsh
• exspelled from athens
• in revenege he began working with the persian King Darius 1 helping then invade marathon
• isagoras and cleisthenes
• isagoras had support from fellow aristocrats
• cleisthenes had support from the majority of athenians
• isagoras won, he is now ruler
• Isagras ostracizes cleisthenes
• cleisthenes supporters revolted against Isagoras
• they trapped Isagoras on the acropolis for two days on the thrid day he fled and was banished
• cleisthenes, very rich, insulated from the "holi polloi" but crafty politician
• saw the value of tapping into th talents intellience and energies of the middle class
• he didn't value women
• citizens could vote - but only 1/5 of athenians were acutal citizens
• in order to be a citizen you must be free, adult, male, property owner, born in athens
• after sveral years athens practiced a direct democracy
• its where states are ruled but its citizens
• rule is based on citizenship
• majority rule decides vote
• in the Agora, itizes argued made speeches then voted with stmes, white (yes), and black (no)
• it was first practiced in athens under cleisthenes by around 500 BCE
• greek's had a relationship with their gods, gods interacted with humans
• greeks were warlike people
• spartans were known for their tough, ruthless, infantry: fought on land
• boys started training when they were seven
• real spartans were much more fearsome than those oily gyms rats
• athens had a great intantry too, but nothing could compare with their navy
• their most effective weapon was the trireme
• trireme
• technological arvel
• fastest ship in the world at the time
• rowed by up to 170 men on three levels
• coul be used as a battering ram
• agile, fast
• the phalanx
• close rank dense grouping of warriors
• armed with long spears and interlocking shields

project

today Mr. Schick let us work on our project with our group. Gabe was here so we were able to work on it with our whole group. I worked on the powerpoint, and Gabe and I went to the art wing to get paper and markers for our poster. We're thinking about bringing in a cake, not quite sure how it would go but we'll see if we even can. It's interesting hearing what other groups are doing. Most are doing powerpoints but their subjects are very interesting. This is a huge thing on our grade so if this goes wrong, the start of the fourth quarter won't end up well for me. But I'm going to work hard so that doesn't happen

project

today we were given in a project about ancient Greece. We are supposed to write a paper and create a powerpoint, with a group. We are doing the Greek gods. I hope this goes well because it's a lot of points. I missed the first half of the class because of something I was talking to Mrs. Roseland about. But I seemed to have gotten the gist of things when I got there. I actually feel really good about this project. I think/hope it's going to go well. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed, but besides that, today's class was pretty chill.

crash course notes

• homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century BCE, centuries after the events it describes happened
• they were the only ones to survive the burning of the library of Alexandria
• metis: skill, cunning
• Odysseus announces his real name while sailing away from the Cyclops island, and the Cyclops calls down curses on him which gets all of his men killed
• greek meaning of heroism: extraordinary attribute or ability
• Odysseus executes all the housemaids for sleeping with the suitors and he's not even married to them
• "and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms around him pressed as though forever
• the Iliad is a poem of war, the Odyssey is a poem of peacetime
• Kleos: glory, renown achieved on the battlefield that guarantees  immortality because of your deeds are so amazing
• weren't werent for diving intervention the humans in the Odyssey would have continued that cycle of violence

Greece powerpoint part 2

• greece is a mountain peninsula
• mountians cover three-quarters of greece
• approximately 2,000 islands in the Lonian and Aegean Seas
• This combination shaped greeces culture
• they had many skilled sailors and shipbuilders
• also farmers, metalworkers, weaver, potter
• they had poor/limited  natural resources so that needed to trade
• during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristocrats ran the show in most of greece
• back then, rich people wielded much more influenced in soceity and held much more governmental power
• aristocrats: members of the ruling class
• symposiums: a meeting where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, performances by dancers
• no women
• no middle class
• no slaves
• certain aristocrat who didn't have the right connections were excluded
• greek tyrant: someone who simply seized power
• modern tyrant: an abusive or oppressive ruler
• tryrant: someone who rules outside the framwork of the polis
• Draco (621 BCE); first
• all Athenians are equal under the law
• death punsihments for many crimes
• debt slavery was ok
• Solon (594 BCE); second
• outlaws debt slavery
• all athenians citizens can speak at assemblys
• any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers
• Draconian: major/harsh punishment for a small crime
• more reforms (around 500 BCE)
• allowed citizens to submit laws for debate at assemblies
• created council of 500
• only free adult male property owners born in Athens were considered citizens
• women, slaves, foreigners

Greece powerpoint

• the Homeric question none may have been a mythical creation himself o
• a blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure
• Iliad and Odyssey may e the culmination of many generations of storytelling
• or... homer actually existed and he was just that awesome
• polis: fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside
• politics, policy, political, etc.
• monarchy: rule by a single person
• aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families
• oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfied with aristocratic rule who seized power
• tyrant: a powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support

textbook notes Greece

• in the Greek city-states of Athens, a new form of government developed - democracy - in which citizens exercised power
• Alexander the Great spread Greek culture throughout much of Asia, Greek, Egyptian, and Asian cultures then blended to create Hellenistic culture
• Athens assumed control of a defense league and eventually built it into an empire, later Alexander conquered the Persian empire and beyond to create a vast new empire of his own
• 2000 B.C. Minoan civilization prospers on crete
• 1780 B.C. Hammurabi issues code of laws
• 1500 B.C. Mycenaean culture thrives on Greek mainland
• 1472 B.C. Hatshepsut, women Pharaoh begins her reign
• 1200 B.C. trojan war takes place
• 1027 B.C. Zhou dynasty begins in China
• 850 B.C. assyrias expand their empire
• 750 B.C. Greek city-states flourish

Egypt powerpoint

• the Nile and the two lands
• upper Egypt was a 500-mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile
• lower egypt was a wide land of the nile delta emptying into the mediterranean sea
• around 3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or pharaoh (narmer)
• the nile flows north, upper to lower egypt
• egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they called maat
• pharaohs had multiple wives and all routes to financial and soical success were through the palace
• women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power
• gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
• egyptians believed in an afterlife (ka) and they mummified bodies to preserve them for this post-death journey
• all souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after world paradise or the jaws of a monster
• earliest egyptian writing formed 3100 B.C. and were small pictures know as hieroglypics
• the Egyptian script was usually written in ink on papyrus which was made by mashed Nile reeds
• papyrus was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books of anicent egypt
• egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make sense of seasons
• due to their excellent knowledge of human anatomy, Egyptian doctors wrote extensively on health issues and created potions and cures
• wooden sailboats were consructed to increase transportation ability on the nile
• pyramids are tombs
• the temple of Amon at Karnak is the largest religious building in the world
• stone sculptures and interior painting depicted humans and gods in a series of regulated poses often in profile and without perspective but were highly effective