week 14

a civil war is a conflict between to groups of people within the same country. julius caesar was a millitary general who joined forces with crassus and dominated rome for the next ten years as a trimuvate which is a group of three rulers. augustus was a roman ruler who remained unchallenged by many of his enemies. pax romana was a period of peace and prosperity that lasted for 207 years. a couple factors that contributed to the fall of rome was because of the masive difference between the rich and poor which led to a shake up of republic. the main reason for the romans success in controlling a large empire was the system of government that augustus created for the empire keept the empire stable for centries after his death. they would have day to day operations and would trade and farm.

week 13

today in class

week 13

yesterday in class we went started learning about rome and what was going to be in this chapter. we also went over what we were going to be doing for the next couple weekss since he isn't going to be here. at the end of the class, Mr. Schick showed us a recording of a rap that he did a couple years ago which i tthought it was really good especially because he was able to come up with enouph lyrics to last the song around five minuts.

week 12

today in class we took a test on greece which i acually studied pretty good for but there was a couple questions that i wasn't sure on. some of the questions that were on the test were who fought in the pelopennesian war, some talked about the different tragedies, and a couple talked about the different democracies. there were also a bunch of questions about four main people(alexander, pereclies, darius111, and philip11) and there were questions that talked about a couple mathmaticians.

week 12

today in class we talked a whole lot about philip11 and alexander the great which apearently almost created his own empire because when philip was assasinated at a wedding, he decided to take power and not everyone agreed so he had them killed. then he decided to carry out the original plan to concure persia and he smashed and took over persia. after concuring persia he went to egypt and described how he was son of a god and won many battles, so they proclaimed him pharoh for a while. then he went to india and ran into a new great chalenge which was the war elephant. these had armor and could smash through enemy lines , but alexander found a way around them and concoured india to so when he started to creat a new empire in babalonian, he died.

week 12

today in class we finished the worksheet that we started yesterday and then we went over the answers to the first side. the answers to the second side were a little hard to find but i did find them. while we were answering the questions, we talked a bit about socraties and how he would teach the yuth to think and question what they think about the laws and their beliefs. the cool thing about todday's class was that we got out 15 minuts early.

week 12

today in class we did a work sheetwhere we had to answer questions based off of sections 3 and 4 from chapter 5. some of the questions listed were about who woon the peloponnesian war which was sparta, characteristics of greek art which is balance, order and proportion, and characteristics of the athenian democracy which includes three branches, leaders chosen by aristocracy, and laws were directly proposed and voted by citizens.

week 11

today in class we did a review on the questions that we answered from the book earlyer this week and we talked about different trageties and events in the ancient greece times. we talked about how they had special effects, how a lot of their trageties were about drama, and that some of their trageties were about real stories. we also talked about how theters were built so that everyone could here in ancient greece and that a man named peraclies lead an attack on sparta but under estamated them and lost which this was called the pelopennesian war.

week 11

today in class we finally got to see elpris' project which it was very intresting because of the rap. when we watched the video, we saw nathin rap and then elpris and i thought they did a good job on it. they did a power point next which described the lyrics to the video and they pretty much made scence but some parts did not make as much scence. they rapped again after the video in person and a few people recorded it and air droped it to everyone so that's cool. they also had an interview at the end of their presentation which was just explaining some of the lyrics in better detail.

week 11

today in class we did a bunch of questions from the text book in our blog since nathen wasn't here for the presentation. so in the questions, we had to list the definitions for a few words and then we had to answer a question that asked about what battle strateges athens and greece used during the pelopennesian war. we also answered a question that asked why some athens were disterbed by socrates ideas.

questions

1. direct democracy- form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.

classical art- harmony, order, balance, and proportion

tragedy- a serious drama about common themes like love, hate, war, and betrayal

comedy- contains scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor

peloponnesian war- a war fought between the two cities of sparta and athens

philosophers- they were determined to seek the truth no matter where it led them

socrates- believed that absolute standards did exsist for truth and justice

plato- a student of socrates who wrote down his conversations as a meaning of philosophical investigation

aristotle- philosopher who questioned the nature of the world and of human beliefs, thought and knowledge

3. they increased the number of public officials who were paid salaries and the poorest citizens were able to serve if elected or chosen by lot

4. the spartans had a strong land army and they started burning down all of the athenian food supplies across the country. the athens had a strong navy and because their food suplies was decreasing rapidly, they moved everyone inside the city walls. so the city and people were safe from hunger as long as their ships could deliver them food.

5. because he was making them question their beliefs and the way they view the world and some thought that was disrespectful to the greek gods and that he was corrupting the youth of athens.

week 11

today in class we did three more of our presentations for our greece project and now all we have left is elpris and his groups presentationand then we're done. some of the groups that went today were sydies group who did greek food, kyalas group who did greek potery, and then our group which we did greek olympics. i thought that every group did really good because they all had a lot of content and creativity.