Presentation Day

Today in Western Civilization with Mr.Schick we presented our project. We wore togas made of bed sheets and talked about our government and why and how we were better than the others; for i was Alexander the Great i acted like i was better than everyone. It was actually really funny, i enjoyed it a lot and thought it went really well.

Pre-Project day

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we continued to prep fro our project. We got all of our information down and went over it in the hall. I need to tie a toga tonight and i am all set for tomorrows project. I am excited to do it in front of the class and believe my group members are excited too. 

Class Preparation day # 2

Today in Western Civilization with Mr.Schick he gave us another day to prepare our presentations in class. Today was very helpful and i am excited to present Thursday. A big thanks to Mr. Schick for another day and another day tomorrow as well.

Greece test

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we took our Greece test. It was sort of hard but not as hard as i imagined. Everything he said that would be on the test was on the test and i felt good about it. Mr. Schick told us about his doctor which was room Macedonia.

Greece

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we continued our study of Ancient Greece. We talked more about direct democracy and its roll in Ancient Greece, Gods and Goddesses and how they interfered in peoples lives, the Persian War and how and how they won, and there war strategies. Im going to write this short so i can go study.

Greece day 997

Today in Western Civilization with Schick we continued to discuss about everything in Greece. We started with is Homer truly real, or is he a mythical man. Or was the Iliad and the Odyssey made by a group of people who told of Homer writing them. The IMPORTANT information is that a polis is a fundamental political unit, a monarchy is a system ruled by a single king, Aristocracy is rule by the rich, noble, land owners, oligarchy is wealthy groups who didn't like aristocrat rule and who seized power, and a tyrant is a powerful individual who seized power appealing to the common people for support. In politics there were no women, no middle class, no slaves, and even sometimes no aristocrats. The leaders started with Draco (621 BCE) then Solon's rule (594 BCE) and then Cleithenes. Cleithenes' people overthrew the government to put him in rule in 508 BCE.

Day 1 Research project

Today in Mr. Schick's Western Civilizations class we had another day to start building and looking at our project. We continued with the same idea but took a closer look at what too research and what to dress like and what we will talk about. Having today to do this helped us greatly, without it everything would still be up in the air, a big thanks to Mr. Schick.

Research Project

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we were shown that we have to complete a research project in a couple days. We are researching the famous Governments and dealing with the wars that were fought and when and who won. I am being the Macedonian king, Cullen the Spartan king, Gianna another king of Sparta,and Bri the Athenian Narrator.

Odysseus

 1) It Took Odysseus ten years to return home from the Trojan War.

2) This trip according to Google maps should have taken two weeks.

3) During the twelfth century B.C.E. 

4)  Homer composed the Odyssey in the eighth century B.C.E

5) A "Epic poem" is an Long Narrative poem, on a serious subject, Written in a grand or elevated style, written about a larger than life hero.
6) Odysseus' wife's name is Penelope.
7) Odysseus' Sons name is Telomoccus.
8) In the Cave of the Cyclops Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk and then spears his eye causing the cyclops to be blind. He told the cyclops his name is noman so when he would yell noman is killing me the other cyclops would come. He then tells the cyclops his name and the cyclops yelled curses down at him and his crew members died.
9) Odysseus is considered a hero, because he had an extraordinary attribute or ability, he was very wise and could do things no one else could using his wisdom.
10) ".....And so she rejoiced, Her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."

Ancient Greece Part 2

Today in Mr. Schick's Western Civilizations's class we continued to expand our knowledge on Ancient Greece. We learned that although the valleys were fertile they only covered close to a quarter of the peninsula,  and only about 20% is arable. Arable meaning able to farm. the Greek diet consisted of grains, grapes, olives, and fish. there lack of resources most led them to Greek colonization. In Greece back then the temp. ranged from mid 40s in winter to the mid 80s in the summer. We then talked about how Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on the Peloponnesus protected by a 20 foot thick wall. The kings dominated Greece from 1600-1100 B.C.E. They controlled trade in the region, and in 1400 B.C.E the Mycenaean's  invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (Writing system, language, art, politics, literature, and religion). After these notes i left the class due to a doctors app.

Ancient Greece

Today in Mr. Schick's Western Civilization class we started our unit on Ancient Greece. We first were started with a test question that Mesopotamia had Tigris and the Euphrates, Egypt had the Nile, India had the Indus, China had the Huang He River. We were also told that we need to know for our test where the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Peloponnese, Athens, Sparta, Crete, Asia Minor, and Macedonia are. I also learned that that Greece is a mountainous peninsula, the mountains cover 3/4  of Greece, and approximately 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean. They had skilled sailors and shipbuilders, farmers, metalworkers, weavers, and potters. They had poor and limited natural resources. difficult to unite Greece due to terrain, they had small city states that they were loyal too.

Test and Notes

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we took a test on Egypt. I studied my paper and notes from the other day, and when i got ready to take the test Mr. Schick told us we could use our blogs which was pretty clutch. I put everything in my blog because i like to always be ready for that moment. In the notes i took i figured out that Greece was separate lands, and the Minoans lived on the island of Crete, it was mainly a mountainous land and had 2,000 islands in the Aegen and Ionian seas. The eastern edeg of Aenean were also part of Greece, and they rarely had to travel more than 85 miles to get access to water. The Greek were skilled sailors and sea travel was very important in their life. Mountains covered 3/4 of Greece the other 1/4  was fertile valleys, the mountains divided Greece into separate communities, lands transport was very difficult. Greece couldn't hold a large population and no more than a few million were ever there.

Test Thursday

Today in Western Civilization with Mr. Schick we reviewed for the test. The only new information we went over was how the temple of Amon at Karnak is the largest religious building in the world, also made out of huge blocks of stone. We went back over what we did yesterday and didn't take the test today but we will take the test Thursday or next class. Mr. Schick apologized fro his rant and it was a good class, i'm looking forward to the test because i feel good about it and think at the least i can get a 98 on the test but i'm going fro a 100.

Test Tomorrow

Today in Western Civilization we were told that we have a test tomorrow based on what we've learned about Egypt. What we learned about Egypt so far is
~Upper Egypt; Mountains, a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile
~Lower Egypt;Was the wide open land of the Nile Delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea
~Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revered in lore and writing
~Around #3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "Pharaoh" (Narmer)
~Pharaoh was all powerful, worshiped as a God, and intimately connected to the major Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
~While Egyptians relied on Harmony and Balance of the universe, which they called "Maat"              (personified by the Goddess Maat; Ideological opposite  of Goddess Isfet)
~Pharaohs had multiple wives, and all routes to financial and social success were though the palace
~Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few ever wielded real husbands
~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 Egyptians writing formed in 3100 B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics
~ Egyptian script was usually written in ink on papyrus, which was made from mashed Nile reeds
~Papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books of ancient Egypt
~Jean Francois Champollion= Translated Rosette Stone
~Egyptian astronomers created a calendar  with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles
~Due to excellent knowledge of human anatomy, doctors wrote extensively on health issues
~Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transportation ability on the Nile
~ Pyramids were massive Stone tombs originally covered in marble but the marble stripped off