6/3/20

Dear future me,

Today we were told to write a letter to our future selves. This year has been like any other. We have been off of school for half of the year, stuck in our houses quarantined. I have been waking up extra late every single day, sleeping in instead of waking up at 6:40 every morning. I have been doing all of my schoolwork sitting in my room, in my boxers typing away at my computer. This was a horrible time, yet i am glad that I lived through it because it made me realize that I am so lucky. I live in a nice house with a great family who takes care of me. I got an amazing school and have great friend. I am lucky that I am where I am. There are people that are very sick, dying and homeless out there. I want to help them now more then ever. They weren't near as lucky as me and being in the international crisis has really opened my eyes to the world outside of my small bubble. The point I am trying to make is that I hope that you are still trying to help people in all types of ways. I hope that you are the best person you could possibly be. Not only do I want to help the people in need, I want to open other kids eyes to make them see everything happening in the world so that they want to help as well. 

5/29/20

Two things that will keep the plebs from revolting: bread (free grain from the state) and entertainment (Circus Maximus,); partly to keep them alive and partly to keep them quiet/distracted
- Tiberius Gracchus saw the advantages of courting the plebians, so the military generals worked at the angle
- The angle was to lead an army that conquers a land, then give them a share in the spoils
- Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC): a highly successful general and conquered the territory of Gaul
- Caesar knew how politics work; make common folks happy and make friends in high places
- Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus formed the First Triumvirate
- All of Caesar's soldiers were devoted to him; Caesar had self-locomotion
- Caesar serves one year as consul and appoints himself governor of Gaul
- Pompey soon becomes jealous of Caesar and becomes his rival
- Caesar's and Pompey's armies fight in Greece, Asia, Spain, and Egypt, with Caesar winning
- In 44 BC Caesar was named dictator (at first for 6 months, then for life)
- Caesar's reforms were that he: granted citizenship to people in provinces, expanded the Senate, adding his friends, created jobs for the poor, especially through public works projects, increased pay for soldiers, and started colonies where those without land could own property
- The senators saw Caesar’s rise in power as a huge threat to their political viability, so they lured him into the Senate, stabbing him 23 times; everyone was involved
- The senators weren't punished and Octavian was named Julius Caesar’s sole heir
- This was the end of the republic

5/27/20

I will be taking the test on June 2 at 8 Am.

-Bread and circuses will keep the plebes happy.

-Tiberius Gracchus Recognized the advantage of courting the Plebeians but failed.

-Julius Caesar was an amazing general and conquered a large territory of Gaul.


-Caesar made everyone happy. he made friends in low places and high places. Him along with pompey and crasius made the first triumvirate.

-"Crossing the Rubicon" meant crossing the point of no return.

-Caesar starts at consul then works his way up to dictator for life.

-Caesars promises were, Granted citizenship to people in provinces Expanded the Senate, adding his friends,Created jobs for the poor, especially through public works projects, Increased pay for soldiers, Started colonies where those without land could own property

-Caesar was assasinated because the senators saw his rise in power as a threat.Even brutus friends betrayed him. This was the end of the republic.

5/21/20

For my essay I am goin to be answering question A. I feel that this will be the easiest question because i know about the current government of the united states and I find researching the roman government interesting.

5/19/20

Main Idea: Empire Building. The creation of the Roman Empire transformed Roman government, society, economy, and culture

• Rome's increasing wealth and expanding boundaries brought many problems
• As Rome grew, the gap between rich and poor grew bigger

• small farmers found it difficult to compete with the large estates run by the labor of enslaved people
• Many of the farmers were former soldiers 
• A period of civil war, or conflict between groups within the same country, followed their deaths
• in 60 BC military leader, Julius Caesar joined forces with Crasses, a wealthy Roman, and Pompey, a popular general.
• Caesar was elected consul in 59 BC 
• these men dominated Rome as a triumvirate, a group of three rulers
• Caesar governed as an absolute ruler, on who has total power

• He granted Roman citizenship to many people in the provinces
• He expanded the senate, adding friends and supporters from Italy and other regions
• He helped the poor by creating jobs

5/15/20

The Punic Wars were three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC, and were probably the largest wars in the ancient world.The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash of interests between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic. The Romans were initially interested in expansion via Sicily, part of which lay under Carthaginian control.

5/11/20

The leader Tarquin took control, and forced Rome to change its views on tyranny. Tarquin took control when a women named Tullia killed her own husband and sister so she could marry Tarquin. Then Tullia told Tarquin to kill her father, and when he removes him from the throne, she runs his father over with her chariot. Tarquin tried to cover for his son, Sextus, and a matron. The people of Rome got so upset that they decided to kick him out,and tyrany with it. 

 The plebs, or what we might consider regular citizens, didn't have any rights, and made up pretty much all of the population. Also, like our form of government there are three branches that were put in place. Instead of one president, there were two consuls who only had a one year term. In the legislative branch, there are two different sets of people; a senate, which had a fixed number of people, and also a group that could change size depending on the population count. Finally, they both have a judicial branch, except the judges back then were called Praters, and only had one year terms.

5/8/20

-The Etruscans came from the north central part of the peninsula to settle Rome.
-The Greeks,, who had many colonies around the Mediterranean, also settled in Rome
-The Latin were the first to settle in Rome.
-They settled on the banks of the Tiber and situated trading ship that could go no further then Rome.
-Tarquin the proud grandfather built the worlds largest drain, the cloaca maxima. This drain pulled water from all sorts of streams of other water sorts into the Tiber.
-The seventh, and final, kind of Rome was Lucias Tarquinius.
-He was a true tyrant, the old fashion scents of the word.

5/7/20

First I would like to start off by saying the lyrics were very good. The lyrics were nothing compared to listening to the song. This might have been one of my favorite memories by the looks of everything from this class, if we were still in school of course. Although I am enjoying staying home, sleeping in, and having less work this might have been worth going to school for. I know this had to take a long time to create so thank you for doing it for us, I loved it.

5/4/20

The Twelve Tables were written laws for plebeians to have power to propose legislation, intervene in legal matters, and veto the actions of other magistrates. The common people/plebeians finally had a say in the law. The laws were first carved into wooden tablets(tables) and then onto bronze to be permanent. They were carved onto twelve tablets, hence the name The Twelve Tables, and place all over the Forum for people to see. a group of ten patricians began writing down Rome's laws and hung them in the Forum. They were memorized and added onto later on. The laws were passed in three different types of assemblies.
 -Centuriate Assembly- for high elections and military affairs
-Tribal Assembly- for lower elections
- Plebeian assembly- for matters that only affected lower classes
The senate would propose the law then people would discuss it and vote on it.

5/1/20

This is the Pantheon. In ancient roman times, this building was used for a temple. The first version of this building burnt down so they had to build a second version. There are two rows of columns in the front of the building. This was very common in building during that time. On the top of the building there is writing in roman that I cannot read. Now, in todays world this building is used as a church.

4/29/20

There are many differences between plebeians and patricians. One main difference is that the plebeians are lower class citizens. The patricians are a higher class then the plebeians, however there aren't near as many patricians. Plebeians make up most of the population in Rome. The main difference is the class they were in and the wealth of them.

4/28/20

• Republic-a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
• Patrician-an aristocrat or nobleman
• Plebeian-a commoner
• Tribune-an official in ancient Rome chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests
• Consul-one of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic.
• Senate-the state council of the ancient Roman republic and empire, which shared legislative power with the popular assemblies, administration with the magistrates, and judicial power with the knights.
• Dictator- a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
• Legion-a unit of 3,000–6,000 men in the ancient Roman army.
• Punic Wars-three wars between Rome and Carthage that led to the undisputed dominance of Rome in the western Mediterranean.
• Hannibal-Hannibal was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage's main army against Rome during the Second Punic War.

4/21/20

My essay question is as followed. As we discussed in class, Socrates was a very interesting man. He gave his life for his beliefs. With that, write an essay regarding his death, and the kind of man he was. In the first paragraph, explain the crimes he committed and what they meant and how important they were back then. With the second paragraph, tell about the Socratic method and how it was used. In the third paragraph, Give an explanation on his death, why he did what he did, and whether the kind of death he had was necessary. . For the fourth paragraph, give your thoughts on whether you think Socrates should have died, been executed, escaped, etc.

4/17/20

What were platos thoughts on women?
He thought they were the same as men to the point where they could rule a kingdom, but he also compared them to children at times.

In this chapter we learned about a man names alexander the _______.
Alexander the Great

Which greek god was the god of arts and knowledge?
Apollo

Who were the three main philosopher we learned about?
Aristole, Socrates, Plato

Who was the god of war?
Ares

4/16/20

1.
Forms are the ideal concepts of the things we see around us. They act as a guide for our modern world. Plato thought that forms were very important and philosophers should study these," perfect forms."
2.
In Platos ideal society, the 3 groups are the producers, military and the rulers. He created a noble lie to try and make everyone follow these 3 groups.
3.
In his modern city, Plato believed that women should be able to rule. Plato thought that a women womb was like a live animal since it could go about in her body and cause sickness. Plato was, " very inconsistent with women."
4. He created a noble lie so that everyone would follow his 3 groups in his ideal society. His lie was that everyone is born with silver, gold, brass and iron and these things determine our roles in life.

4/15/20

The Ancient Greek cities
Were all quite separate.
Athens, Thebes, and Sparta -
Each was a different state.
These city states sometimes
Decided to unite,
Like the time when Persia
Came to pick a fight.

4/2/20

This is a very old, partial broken down Greek building. There are stairs leading up to it meaning it is elevated and set higher up. It also has large columns in front of the building which was very common back then in ancient greece.

This is a multi-story building in ancient greece. There are six columns that you can see in this picture, which again are very common for that time period.There is also a statue of a person at the bottom which is another common thing to have back then.

4/1/20

1) In Ancient Greece, there were two main types of drama. Humor was a crude humor less serious type of drama. Tragedy was a more serious type of play with more love, death, and hate.

2)b)Movies today have many, many woman roles. That wasn't allowed back in Ancient Greece. young boy or sometime grown men would play the role of woman instead of actual females.The physical storyline of the movies today vs. the plays in ancient Greece could be very similar, but the films today are much, much better due to the editing and being able to record it and get It perfect instead of doing it, in person.

3)This Theater was a semi-circle, and was elevated so everyone could see the stage. It was also open, which meant it was exposed to the elements outside. The actors would preform in the middle of the pit area, and the only way for people to hear them is to talk loudly, since of course there were no microphones or speakers.

3/30/20

Today's blog is about the struggles everyone is facing regarding cyber school. As this is a hard time for everyone, there are a lot of challenges that are involved for students, such as myself, sitting in my room for hours and hours doing nothing but work gives me a headache just thinking about it. As I am a very social person, not having interactions with anyone makes the work load feel ten times worse. The teachers are also at a disadvantage. As some of them choose to take this time to barely give the students any work and use this time for themselves, other teacher give us way too much work and it sometime can take me two-three hours just for one subject. Another struggle regarding cyber school is cheating. When I was working on an assignment and I didn't know the answer I cant say I didn't call my friends a ask them. It is so easy to cheat and get away with it with this new way of learning and I feel that it is unfair to some students and the teachers who are really putting time in for all of the work during cyber school. I feel that we should all come together and fight the virus by staying home doing the work, without cheating so we can finally go back to school.

3/26/20

The corona virus and the Athenian plague were very similar. Although they had different symptoms, corona virus gives people the cough and a high fever, and the Athenian plague gave people nausea, high fever, diarrhea, etc., they were similar in another way. They both spread visiously throughout the country they were in. The numbers of deaths, and cases are very high and still climbing, for the corona virus. Both of the diseased changed the time when they were in. The corona virus has put people on quarantine and now doesn't allow people to go out as the government puts restrictions on it now. The Athenian plague was partially the reason for the decline of the classical Greece era. Both of the viruses completely got out of hand and changed the time and the people that it was with.

3/24/20

Philip II was the king of Macedonia from 359 BC to 336 BC, when he was assassinated by one of his personal bodyguards. As a youth, he was taken as hostage in Illyria and then held in Thebes. There he gained military and diplomatic education by Epaminondas. Phillip returned to Macedonia in 364 BC and became king in 359 BC. Had many military conquests, such as defeating 3,000 hoplites, creating the Phalanx, and defeating 7,000 Phocians in the Third Sacred War. He was assembling an army to fight Persia, however, he was assassinated before he could attack.

Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, succeeded his father at the age of 20 after he was assassinated. He was tutored by Aristotle until he was 16. After inheriting his father's army, he launched the attack on the Persians that his father had planned. After invading Persia, he began a series of campaigns that lasted 10 years, and, eventually, overthrew King Darius and took control of the Persian Empire. He continued his conquest until 323 BC and died in Babylon on his way back home.

King Darius III was the last King of Persia and had assassinated everyone who succeded him as well as his father in order to get the crown. He didn't have the experience the other members of his family had and was without the talent needed to rule an Empire of that caliber. After Alexander began his conquest on Persia, he fought them at the battle of Issus in 333 BC and outnumbered them 2 to 1. Despite this, however, he was defeated and after an amazing number of defeats had his Empire seized from him by the hands of Alexander.

3/23/20

 Bucephalus was Alexander's horse that he won. He was known to have a massive head, black coat, and a white sea on his brow. Alexander's father was offered Bucephalus for a large sum, but thought Bucephalus appeared untamable. Alexander said to take the horse and if he couldn't tame it then he would have to pay his father back. Alexander goes on to tame Bucephalus by speaking to him and turning the horse away from the sun so he doesn't see his shadow. They grow up together for nearly two decades and fought many battles. Unfortunately, Bucephalus dies of battle wounds in 326BC. Alexander the Great loved the house and even founded a city named Bucephala in honor of his stallion

3/20/20

The first cyber week of school has been okay. I feel like I am stuck doing A LOT more work for some of my classes such as Math, and English. For other classes, its pretty laid back and the work load is pretty good. I end up doing between 6-7 hours of work per day so it a little less then actual school but still a lot. The biggest thing I don't like about it is how I'm isolated by myself in my room for that long. I feel like I'm going to go insane. I hope the virus will be solved soon so we can go back to school because I enjoy it a lot better.

3/18/20

After the war had hit Athens and forced athenians to move away, diseases, and more corrupt leaders forced  philosophers to bring them back to their better days. After their ruler had died and they had been struck with a horrible disease they started to become not so strong as what they used to be agian. They turned to anger because they didn't see a point in doing good deeds if both good and bad people both suffered the same fate. This sudden turn in their ethics most likely caused good men like Socrates to stand up. If they no longer listened to their older beliefs and values then they needed philosophers like Socrates to challenge them to better.

3/17/20

In the Peloponnesian War, Athens had a plan for defeating Sparta, mainly by their ships and their ability to trade. When a horrible plague hit Athens all of that disappeared. At this point in time no citizen seemed to care about the government, trade, or even religion. This eventually killed over a third of the whole population of Athens. Even Pericles caught this plague, and died 6 months later. He wanted to turn Athens into the greatest civilization, but this plague ruined that. After his death, corruption was common in Athens, as citizens craved for more power.

3/16/20 First cyber day

Pericles was a well respected, likes leader in Athens. He had power in Athens for 32 years due to him being loved by everyone. Pericles had three goals for Athens. The first one was to strengthen the Athenian democracy. The second one was to hold and strengthen the empire. The third was to glorify Athens. A direct democracy is when the citizens run the government themselves instead of electing a leader to do it for them. This was the form of government that Pericles was going to put into place. The Delian league was an alliance formed by the Greek city-states to fight off any largely populated empires such as Persia. This was formed right after the Persian wars so it was more directed at just Persia.

3/11/20

Today, Mr. Schick wasn't here today so we had to watch the part 2 of the video from yesterday. The beginning of the video was based on the Persians, Greece, and Egypt. It talked about the relationship with each other. They didn't get along very well. It went into pretty great detail about he Persian wars and described it very well. It then went into talking about the gods and goddesses that were involved in Greece and their ideas. The video even got into the specific conversations that the leaders were having about the strategy.

3/10/20

Today in class we watched a video on ancient Greece. since Mr. Schick wasn't here today we had to watch the video ourselves and take notes on all of it. It was a review of basically everything we have already learned. It talked about the odyssey and the Iliad and then went on to talk about all the different time periods and all the ruler. It was everything we already went over.

3/6/20

Today in class we went over the PowerPoint from yesterday. We then had a pop-quiz. The quiz was on the Greeks and Persians. It was also on the gods and goddesses. Another thing that was on the pop quiz was the three big philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. I got a 100 on the quiz so I am happy with it. I need to try and bring my grade up to at least a B.

3/5/20

Today in class we went over and reviewed the three big philosophers. Aristotle wanted to gather everyone from around the world to share ideas and make the world a better place. Socrates was a philosopher that made people think and broke the laws and was put to death for it. Plato was the student of Socrates and taught everyone about him and his thoughts.

3/4/20

Today in class we took notes on gods and goddesses.  We learned about Poseidon, Zeus, Athena, etc.
We then talked about the Persian war for the rest of class. The Persians greatly outnumbered the Greeks and if you were asked who won the war and you didn't have any background knowledge, then you most likely would have said the Persians. The Greeks ended up winning because they were very smart with their battles.

3/2/20

Today in class we started to take notes on Greek gods and goddesses. As we had people making up tests the rest of us took notes individually. The PowerPoint was talking about Poseidon, Aphrodite, Dionysus, etc. It didn't go into too much detail but I'm excited for this unit because I like Greek gods and goddesses.

2/28/20

1)
direct democracy-A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
classical art- Values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard.
tragedy- a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal,
comedy- contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor.
Peloponnesian war-  A war between two Greek city-states; Athens and Sparta.
Philosophers-Greek thinkers, true meaning is ,"lovers of wisdom."
Socrates- A Greek philosopher that believed absolute standards did exist for truth and justice.
Plato- A Greek philosopher that wrote down everything his teacher taught him, Socrates.
Aristotle- Greek philosopher who questioned the nature of the world and of human belief.

2) his goals were to strengthen Athens, Strengthen the Empire, and to Glorify Athens. I would say the greatest impact was to glorify Athens. A lot of countries not only care about being strong and secure, but nowadays counties want to seem like the best and have the glory.

3) Pericles helps strengthen Athens by using direct democracy to increase the number of public officials that were paid high salaries.

4) Sparta's strategy was to control Athens on the land because their army was stronger, They marched into Athens, burning everything and taking control of everyone. The strategy of Athens was to win in the water.  As their navy was very strong and Sparta's wasn't as good, their plans was to beat them through the navy

2/27/20

Today in class we took a quiz-test on Greece. On the test there were topics of the geography of it to questions about the allegory of the cave to question about specific dates or broader time periods having got do with leaders and other people. In my opinion, the quiz-test was pretty hard which isn't good because my grade in this class isn't very good.

2/25/20

today in class we talked about Hippias. He was a tyrant and ruled very harshly. As he was ostracized out of Athens he became very angry. He went to the Persians and told them how to invade Athens. There was another case of this when there was two leaders running to rule and one of them didn't win, he was then ostracized and removed out of Athens.

2/24/20

today in class we continued to take notes on Greece and civilization in Greece. We talked about hippias
here are some of the things we talked about:

• Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE
• his brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh
• eventually he was expelled from Athens (this is called being ostracized)
• in revenge, he began working with the Persian king Darius I, helping them invade Marathon