TEST

Today in West. Civ. class we took a test and that is what we have been doing. Then we were chilling and talking about the final and stuff, then Mr. Schick went to go grade our tests.

Fuedalism review

Sorry forgot to post this for last week!
• Feudalism: studies the relationship between landowners and warriors; terms used by historians to describe governmental system; government and social institutions
• feudal compact: Lord would grant a fief (property) to the knight, who then become lord's vassal(servant)- this was feudal compact; an exchange of property or personal service an agreement and formal contract with a person
• Fief: Property-- Lord gives this to a knight to become his vassal in the contract
• Vassal: a warrior who agreed to serve a greater warrior in exchange for secure possession of land;
• Knight: a warrior, has to go through apprentice with an older knight, eminent with a lord in feudal compact
• Homage: a vassal's act of promising loyalty and obedience to his lord
• Serf: a peasant bound to work for a landowner -a lifelong hereditary status-as a condition for hereditary possession of a small farm
• Baron: a great lord who exercised government authority over vast family territory
• Peasantry: lowest group of estate, "those who work" the common people in town and countryside, including everyone from wealthy merchants and lawyers to landless farm workers, whose labors supported the clergy and nobles as well as themselves
• Estates: In the middle ages, the groups that made up society; often defined as those who pray, those who fight, and those who work
• Manor:  the principal farming property and social unit of a medieval community, usually belonging to a member of the feudal nobility or to a Church institution
• three-field-system: A method of crop rotation designed to maintain and fertility of the soil and to provide for a regular supply of fall and spring crops
• internal colonization: The process of cultivating and settling in formerly wild land in medieval Europe
• Suburb: a village outside of walls
• Guild: an organization of merchants or craftspeople who regulaed the activities of their members and set standards and prices
• Master: A craftsman who had the right to operate workshops, train others, and vote on guild business
• Journeyman: A licensed artisan who had served an apprenticeship and who was employed by a master and paid at a fixed rate per day
• Apprentice: A "learner" in the shop of a master
• Masterpiece:  The final product of a merant, carpenter or such
• water mill

and yes, iron plow

Feudalism

Sorry didn't post this just made it a draft my b!

• Feudalism studies the relationship between landowners and warriors; terms used by historians to describe governmental system
• Warriors pledge allegiance to a lord, who would in turn give that knight land
• Lord would grant a fief (property) to the knight, who then become lord's vassal(servant)- this was feudal compact
• Vassall must fight for lord when he needs  it and attend his court once a month

Homage and Knighthood

• A vassal was required to pay homage to his lord, usually this meant kneeling down and taking lord;s hands in his while speaking an oath of loyalty
• Men were apprenticed to older knights before they could become full knight themselves
• When a knight died, his fief would revert to his son, through his lord would be protector of that son if he was underage, or if it was a daughter

The Feudalization of the Church

• Some clergy were known to fight as knights themselves

Feudal States

• Barons were lords of large territories who usually paid homage to a king, next step higher then lord
• Often barons army could outnumber that of a king, which kept a check on kings power
• Divine right of the king gave him power over his vassals, no matter how much land theyhad
• In countries like France and England the kings built up enough land and power to rule effectively over their barons

Manroial Estate:

• Medieval society was divided into 3 estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the common people
• Usually peasantry farmed on large plantations known as "manors" which were owned by a lord or lady of the nobility
• Iron plows and water powered grinding mills helped with agricultural productions, but yield was still miniscule by today's standards
• To maintain helft of the soil, the "Three field system" was used where two fields were lanted on (one in spring, one in fall) and one field was left to reconstitute its fertilityt then they were rotated
• Villages spring up on and around manors with small cottages for the peasants and a large manor house for lord and lady

People of the Manor

• Lord oversaw major agricultural issues but delegated everyday overseeing to his stewards or bailiffs
• Lady of house ran household operatiions, oversaw servants, entertained guests and ran the manor when her husband was away
• Most peasants were serfs, meaning they were bound to the land, to their lords for labor service a few days each week
• Serfs were responsible for "internal colonization" of europe that is the cultivating and settling of previously uninhabited land

Growth of Trade

• Agricultural boom after 1000 alloed for the establishment of many towns across Europe
• Farm produce and animals were sold in towns and people with wealth bought their luxury items there
• Items like psiced and silks came overland forom port cities like Venice and Genoa who recieved the goods from eastern sapitals like Constantinople
• Europeans exported wool linen horses weaponry and slaves 
• Europeans and Low countries were practically known for trade in wool and cloth 

Location and Appearance of Towns

• Most medieval towns were surrounded by fortified walls
• Residences also sprang up outside the walls in the suburbs
• Towns were dominated by main church and central marketplace
• Buildings for the craft guilds and the wealthiest families would also be in the center of the town

Life of Townspeople

• Thorugh townspeople were free, unlike serfs they still had hierachy: merchants at the top, then skilled craftsmen and artisans, then unskilled laborers and apprenctices 

The Guilds

• Merchants, craftsmen and artisans formed their own groups called guilds which regulated their trade and protected its members
• Craftsmen were classified as masters, journeymen and apprenctices
• Once became a master after spending years learning as an apprenctice working as a paid jounrey man for a numnber of years, and completing his "masterpiece"

Test Results

Well on class on Wednesday we started to go over the tests that we just had. The test results showed that we were the most prepared class and compared to the others we were very very intelligent. We had the most A's and the least amount of F's. Personally I contributed to getting an A with a 96, I could have done better and wish I had studied my spelling, but other then that I did excellent.

Pop Quiz- After Rome 500-700 AD

• Germanic Barbarians
• Barbarian warlords and families assimilated into Roman culture became nobles or aristocrats of medieval Europe
• Germanic tribes ruled former Roman lands, sought to conquer and assimilate other barbarian peoples who lived beyond frontiers and were still pagans
• Angles and Saxons invaded Britain and assimilated with native Britons
• Most Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity in 7th century
• Most powerful Germanic tribe was Franks
• Real power lay with "mayors of the palace" who were royal officials and nobles themselves
• From Eastern Empire to Byzantium
• Eastern Roman Empire continued while west divided into barbarian tribes
• Justinian came to power in 527, decided to reunite entire Roman Empire by conquiring western territories 
• In 476 The western empire ended
• Justinian succedded for a time, but land he retook soon conquered by new tribes and massive plague depopulated much of west
• Greek Byzantine emperors saw themsevles Roman Emperors and heads of Christian Church
• Byzantines preserved Greco-Roman art, architecture, philosophy and writing despite much of it being non christian
• Justinian built massive domed Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople, considered to be most glorious church on earth at the time
• Cathedral of Hagia Sophia

Two Emperors

Diocletian:

• He ruled from 284
• cool to persecute Christians
• Jacked up army to 400,000 
• Jacked up government 20,000 officials

Constantine:

• ruled from 306-337
• it's okay to be Christian
• Conversian of Christianity (sign)
• 313- Edict of Milan
• Built new capital Byzantium, soon changed to Constantinople
• East is new capital
• West is hard to take over

Life in 4th Century:

• country men are bankrupt because of the endless tax collection
• Farm system: peasants work for elite landlords on large farms
• Rome power is decreasing
• Western Empire is too poor
• Huns migrate out of China to eastern Europe and take big chunks of empire: The Huns came from China. he Hunnic empire was formed under the reign of Attila, centered in present-day Hungary; its territory included parts of Germany, the Balkans, and Ukraine. It bordered the Eastern Roman Empire to the southeast and the Western Roman Empire to the west and southwest; its other boundaries are uncertain. 
• The Angles were people from German descent who conquered what is now modern-day Britain during the fall of the Roman Empire. The name England originates from the Angles.
• Visigoths take over Spain, actually capture and loot Rome itself in 410:  The Visigoths responded by moving into Roman territory near the mouth of the Danube (in today’s Bulgaria).  But the Romans abused them: officials from Constantinople demanded illegal tribute from Visigoths; when the Visigoths refused to pay, Roman soldiers took their children as slaves, raped the women, and tortured the men.  In 378, 50,000 Visigoths rebelled and defeated an army sent from Constantinople.  They then moved through Greece and along the Adriatic Sea towards Italy. They then seized control over the rich farm land of southern Gaul.
• Vandals Control Carthage and Western Mediterranean: The Vandals invaded Rome's territories in Gaul.  The Vandals moved into Spain and North Africa, and seized control over Roman Numidia in 439.  In 455 the Vandals attacked and plundered Rome from the sea. 
• Other Tribes
• Ostrogoths in Italy 
• Farnks in Gaul
• Angles and Saxons in Britains
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• Ostrogothic Kingdom
• The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian declared war on the Ostrogoths in 535 AD. During the 20 year war, the Ostrogoths conquered large parts of Italy.
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• The Angles were people from German descent who conquered what is now modern-day Britain during the fall of the Roman Empire. The name England originates from the Angles.
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• peasants can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords
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• paying off debts and being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless back-breaking work (such a deal!)
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• landowners hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than the faraway empire 
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• foreshadowing feudalism

From the beginnings

• 500 BC- the moarchy is abolished
• 450 BC- The Twelve Tables are established

...throught the glory days...

• 44 BC- end of the line for JC
• 27 BC- 180 AD- The Roman Peace (Pax Romana)

to the bitter end..

• constants fifth centure invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Roman Empire shatterd and crumbling
• Last emperor was teenage boy installed in  475 by his father
• barbarians deposed Romulus Augustulus without bothering to kill him 
• 476 last emperor gone of Western Empire

TEST

Today in class we had the Rome part 2 test and boy was it difficult! The full in the blank was hard only because I did not know how to spell the words. I knew what I wanted to say but I did not know how to write them down. I believe my short answer answers were on point and got a hundred on that part, however I did not know how to spell A couple words and see if there will be points taken off because I knew the word but just not the spelling. Overall I think I prepared well and had an okay grade (92ish).

Questions for the Test

• What is an "Edict"?

A law coming straight from the emperor, from the highest position has to be followed by all

• How much bigger was Diocletions army then Augustus?

Augustus's army was only 1/3 of the size of Diocletions army, 400,000 in Diocletions army

• In 300 AD how many people were in the Roman Empire?

60 million

• Describe Constantine's vision (Paragraph 5-10 sentences

Battled in the Milvian Bridge; before this he saw the cross ect.

• When was Pax Romana?

27 BC to 180 AD

• When was the Edict of Milan?

313 AD

• How many people in Constantine army?

500,000

• Who did Jesus hang out with? Why?(short answer)

Poor people
Allowed Christianity to grow

• What does Gospel mean?

Good News

• Diocletians Edicts:

He wanted to burn all churches, burn sacred scriptures, destroy christian careers, arrest all bishops priests and clergy, forced them to go make sacrifice to Roman gods, not allowed to assemble, and mother father child and children had to make sacrifice or persecuted immediately

• Constantine moved capital from Rome to Banzantime and then moved to Constantinople
• What is the Edict of Milan?

Edict that said you can't persecute anyone for their religions

• What is Predestination?

God knows before what you were destined for

• Who were four Gospel writers?

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

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Carly TEACHING

• Diocletian didn't have problem with Christians first, but did after
• Someone on staff had him change his mind on Christians
• He had edicts
• Sentneced newly build Christian Church in Nicomedia demolsihed
• Christians scriptures and places of worship demolished
• Christians are prohibited from assembling for worship
• He said that all Chrisyians were to be stripped of their rankings as senator equestrians, decurions, veterans and soldiers
• After first edict, 3 more edicts
• Second: ordered arrest as well as imporosments of all bishops and priests, let other people that are criminals out of jail
• 3rd if clergyman wanted to be freed, would have to make sacrifice to Roman gods
• 4th: ordered all men women and children to come to public space and make collective sacrifice together and refused, they would be executed
• Cross came to him (see yesterdays blog)
• Consyayine buily Roman army and pay for the army he introduced new gold currency
• Rome to Binzanti capital late renamed to COnstatine 
• Edicts come from emperor which is a law that has to be followed
• Fire destroyed half of palace
• Galarious (sub empoorer) said it had to be christians
• Guy was abused
• Doceltine just left, didnt wait to die just ran away
• Big difference from Constantine and Doceltine
• Constantines mother is a Christian
• THey painted it on their shield
• He did not become Christian on spot, but eventually did become on
• Eusebius: historian talked to COnstantine on what happened
• Constantine thought he needed divine assistance and all because his gods were not helping
• Those who believed in multiple gods met an unhappy end
• The God of the Father gave him many tokens and such
• Constantine said this through his own lips
• God came to him in the dream and they put sign on shield and go to battle
• Won battle
• Edict of Milan: you can't persecute anyone for their religion anymore
• If your property was taken away because you are Christian or something you get it back
• They will not burn up anything and destroy anything
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Persecution

• Epidemic disease spreads throughout empire
• Too hard to defend against barbarians
• emperors began to lose power. stayed in power for 2 1/2 years
• Having armies is expensive
• Too many poverty stricken citizens
• 284-Diocletian's reforms
• Increase size of army 400,000
• 1/3 bigger then Augustus
• Ask new people to join their army they concquered 
• Roman territories made smaller
• 20,000 officials in government (10x more then augustus)
• In 300 Ad 60 million people in Empire
• 7 million people are Christians
• Father in heaven loves you helped the poor in Roman Empire
• Diocletian ruled from 284-305 
• He at first didn't care
• He realized the probs it could cause so he devised a plan to persecute Christians
• Diocletian reconstructed empire.
• What was the way Diocletion persecute?

• What were specefics Diocletiion on how Diocletion persecutes Christians?

• What is the connection between Constatine and Christianity?

Constantine not only accepted Christianity by issueing the Edict of Milan to stop the persecution of Christians and also issue complete freedom to worship throughout the entire Roman Empire. Constantine not only just allowed freedom throughout the empire to let them worship, but he took it farther and started to favor Christianity. This lead to Christianity to be the religion throughout the entire empire. The exact instance where Constantine became Christian is unknown to us, although what we do know is that of his own story. He said that during the battles that he fought to bring him to power, he would display the sign of the cross of Jesus. His reasoning for this was that one day he had seen a cross hovering above the sun with the words written on it, "Conquer by this sign!." The only power that Constantine had in his mind was the one God whom the Christians worshiped. He was a Christian so he could not have looked at himself and expected himself to be a god, but that did not stop the bishops themselves to displayed reverence for him. In a speech before the emperor Constantine's friend a biographer Bishop Eusebius of Causarea made a point by point parallel between Constantine as ruler of Rome and Christ himself as ruler of the universe.

• What else is Constatine known for?

Christianity in Pax Romana

• A new religion in new empire
• Begins with Jesus (everything)
• He was a real person, historical real
• Only written about Gospel not on front page news
• Jesus was an observant Jew
• He was hanging with sinners, prostitutes, fringes of societies and was telling them they were worth it
• He said we should strive for perfection  but we we are unable to get there, but God forgives if you are a good person
• People tried to trick him to do bad and be legislative, but he did not lose and crack
• Jesus followers thought he came to end world and bring them to eternal happiness
• Followers believe he died and rose from the dead
• People that followed him were apostles
• Paul of Tarsus was a Jew who became follower of Christ
• Paul not only stops persecuting but follows Jesus
• People could be pushed around and no one would care
• Columbia history says he really was calming down people not casting out demons

LO-2 Christianity in the Era of the Roman Peace

Jesus:

• What is known of Jesus is found in the gospels
• The authors did not feel the need to write down all of what happened in Jesus life, just death and preach and birth
• Gospels written when Jewish people were against each other.
• Jesus obeyed the law and called for acceptance of Roman Rule
• One must "be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect"
• Gospel tells many of Jesus signs and wonders
• Jesus of Gospel is different then Jesus that Jewish groups hoped for
• he said I have not come to bring peace, but a sword
• He meant he will separate the sinful from the righteous
• The gentiles saw the god and went into the world and proclaimed the good news to the whole creation
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• aul had recently come to Judaea as a studious Pharisee and opponent of the new belief 
• A vision made his a passionate believer in Jesus as Messiah
• Paul kept in touch by letter
• Predestination: The doctrine that God determines in advance who will be saved and who will be damned
• Within the earliest Churches, there was no formal structure of authority and power
• People claimed that they should be the head of the Church because God or the Holy Spirit gave them something special
• The Churches' worship included two formal services
• Paul died in about 60 A.D. probably beheaded in Rome as a Jewish troublemaker
• The believers in Jesus began calling themselves by a name originally given them by Gentile disbelievers -"Christians"
• For the Christians, there were only three groups: 
• The Jews: God's former chosen people
• The Gentiles: a word that Christians sill often used to describe worships of the gods and goddesses
• Themselves, the Christians: who were Gentiles no longer but God's chosen people

Friday

I forgot to do a blog for our class on Friday, but it was when Daniel and I worked on our paper together in class and which was due today in class for a grade (100 points). The LO that we decided to do were LO1, LO3, LO5 and I think it was a solid essay.

The ending of Rome (video)

We started off by when Tibiris wife, Claudia, had poop thrown at her face because the people were angry at Tibiris because people were saying that he wanted to be king. Even his body gaurd had left him because he thought that Tibiris was trying to be a tyrant. They broke Tibiris fathers face mask. He said that he will run for tribune again and win over their support again. He was being yelled at by his mother saying not even her greatest enemies have given her that much pain. He said that he did not do this for the good of the people, or for the good of himself, but for his mother. The Senate was wanting to interfere, but they can't do anything legally. They misinterrpurted the symbol for being King and the Senate beat Tibiris Braccus to death. He had no funeral or anything just was dumped into the river.

• The overthrow of Roman Republic
• Prolutarian: A propertyless and still could vote
• War profiteers are people that profit from war
• People would take advantage of their own people that were rich not just others
• People use their own money to buy farm lands that other people can't afford or grow anything on
• They did not even pay former farmers they just hired slaves
• The Gracchi brothers saw that what was happening was not right
• The brothers were motivated to make things people, but they got killed
• They asked people with enormous amount of land to people that needed it, just a little, part they didn't need
• Some of the grain they had would be given to Romans that don't have food
• This idea would decrease the gap between rich and poor
• His idea did not suit well with the Senate
• He was under a disadvantage because of people that were in the Assembly that were sympathetic to the Senate
• This was a well covered historical story
• Senate thought he was a troublemaker 
• He does something illegal because he tries to get re elected 
• They killed Tibiris and 300 of his supporters
• Guis is 8 years younger then his brother
• He picked up after his brother and got elected as a tribune
• There was a bounty on him and Opimius announced whoever brought it back will get paid by weight in gold
• They were almost forced into Civil War
• The Rise of Julias Ceaser
• He was a talented person, speaking, patrician and was very persuasive 
• He was a brilliant military man
• He was really good at how to work people, what friends to have, what to act like
• This guy feels like he was totally meant to rule 
• Sulla tried to do this with 3 people in different government branches
• Pompey was accomplished general
• Crassus richest man on earth, might be the richest
• Triumphant, military, money and him
• He goes through and annexes most of western Europe
• He was war profiteering from this
• After 8 years he has enourmously increased Roman amount of land
• Pompey is jealous and senate is worried
• Senate tells him to not march in with massive army and celebrate
• He got to the Rubicon river and makes a grand heroic entrance
• Caesar is DADDY
• Crossing the Rubicon "Reaches point to make decision with no turning back"
• Pompey is getting jealous and can't deal with this 
• They both start fighting each other and Pompey getting defeated
• He ran to Egypt and got killed
• 46 BC: Caesar returned to Rome in triumph and was declated "Father of the Fatherland"
• JC was tribune, supreme pontiff, consul, and dictator some at same time
• He became the DICTATOR FOR LIFE
• They have come back to Tarquin the Proud, full circle
• As dictator, he resettle war veterans on famlands
• Lands he conquered he made them Roman citizenship, give em senate spot
• He did all the great things for people
• Ides of March (March 15) 44 BC he got stabbed to death
• Mark Antony and Octavian each get some of Caesars troops and new triumvirate with another warlord0 Lepidus
• They start fighting each other
• They join forces to assasinate JC's assasins
• Antony has love affair with Cleopatra not popular with rome
• Octavian pushes out Lepidus and defeats Cleo 
• Octavian supreme warlord
• Runs military dictatorship
• named him Augustus which means "recered one"
• he was 18 when Caeser was killed(44 BC)
• Two decades later (27 BC) most powerful man in world
• beginning of Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
• Paper about what comes next pg 104-121 in text
• right about Pax Romana new monarchy 
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Rome Video cont.

Today in West. Civ. class we continued watching the video on Rome that we have been watching for the past couple days. It has been pretty interesting so far. It starts off by Tibiris eating and drinking a few drinks with Octavious. Octavious is the person who has taken the old womens land that was complaining(Latifundia land). There were thousands of farmers that had to leave their land because rich land owners were buying them. Tibiris fought the Newmantides from Spain who his father had fought 40 years before. Maximus was a commander whose only option was to have a peace treaty with the barbarians that are surrounding them. They said they wanted to have Tibiris negotiate with them and hand him the lives of 20,000 Roman soldiers lives to his "junior officer" rank. When Tibiris returned home he was greeted and praised by the soldiers family that he had brought home safely. Then he had to go to the Senate with Maximus and Tibiris. He was not convicted  but the officer Maximus was the one they blamed and had to be stripped naked and sent to the land of the Newmantides. He was told to be a tribune. To stand for the people that he had saved their lives. He got married to Claudia to form an alliance. Tibiris using his veto power he brought the entire government to a stand still.

Movie

Today in West. Civ class we started to watch more of the movie, but unfortunately there were technical difficulties that delayed the class. First we could not get Mr. Schick's volume to work on his laptop, but the video worked perfectly fine. Then we discussed it and let Nick try his computer and we got the sound system to work on his, but we could not get the video to show up on the projector with his. Then Mr. Schick went outside and most likely went to the Tech Lab to get things fixed. However a plot twist was that when he left Olivia and Becca decided to try their laptops so we got theirs to work so we were just watching the video while Mr. Schick came into our classroom which I thought we did a good job in handling it.

TEST

Today in West Civ class I had to take the test since I was absent the day before. I thought that the test was pretty simple and easy, there were a few questions that threw me off and I had to think about it, but I got threw it! I am kind of upset because I did not get a perfect score :(. I got one question wrong which was the one of what the Roman Legion is called a centurie. This was upsetting, but I WILL get a 100 on the next test. I walked into class with them being yelled at because they are not taking advantage of the 15k that their parents are paying for them. I think it is a simple class if you pay attention and work at it, and my grade certainly proves it, but it is whatever it is their mistake. Then after class we started watching a video on the Roman Emprorers and the first part was of Tibiris Braccus death and they were honoring him, he had to see his dead father sit on the throne and he would die 20 years later and on the same principles he has been brought up to believe in. Then the video ended on talking of Tibris and his brother in law saying of the war against Carthage. Tibris was brought up to fill big shoes because this father was such a great leader.

Thursday, 4/25

I was not at school on Thursday so I was out all yesterday and could not blog so this is me saying I was absent!

Rome Test review

• Bracus  brothers part of senate

• Bracus bros part of 300 senates
• They moved to Rome because they thought big city lot of jobs
• There were 1000's of people who came to rome to find a living
• People would watch gladiators fight for their enterainment
• The people got little bread and food to do the fighting
• The Bracus brothers say the solution is that the rich should give some of the land back that they bought from people

• Study up to I can hear the brothers Gracchus
• Plebian
• Patricion
• Senate: 300 people in senate
• Republic: Les republic: From latin
• Democracy Aristocracy Monarchy
• The assembly spoke for non rich people
• People in assmebly is called tribune
• Counsels represented the monarchy
• Had dictator iin times of crises 6 month terms
• Counsel could veto each other 1 year terms

• First punic war over sicile Rome and Carthage

• 2nd hannibal 28 great idea and attack Roman from side where they didn't expect

• 3rd war Rome is tired of Carthage and they attacked and utterly demolished them
• Who was a matron raped by Tarquins son (Lucrica)
• Etrucians came to rome one of first 3 Etrucians Greeks Latins
• Lataphondia when rich people bought up all land and that is what huge land was called

Extra Credit

Today in West. Civ. class we presented our extra credit that we did for the first part of the class. We kicked off class with Carly starting what she did for extra credit and she did amazing, but we were just messing with her, but I really thought it was amazing and she put a lot of effort into it. Then to make it seem even better it was my group going next and it wasn't let us say up to the level of Carly's, but I was aiming for 7 points to higher my grade into a 100. Well then I had to go up and present, we had many issues to start off with, but we did a "satisfactory" job on the extra credit especially compared to some that did not even do it. I was kind've winging it because I did not know we were going to present I thought you would just look at our things and judge it like that, but I think I ended up doing a solid job on my presenting. Also I had that picture of the ORIGINAL Chi-Cago and M- Schick Lamar, but watch out K- Doo is up and coming haha.

• Sicili was little island in middle they were fighting for
• Hanibal carthage age 28 young blood, said if they can crush rome and take over then mediterranian
• They fight on sea
• They came the back way
• Hannibal almost pulled off most amazing underdog but the romans defended well
• Rome wins 2nd Punic war
• Rome decides Carthage was annoying and they swamped Carthage and killed many and enslaved survivors
• They annihilated the Carthaginians so utterly left nothing
• People lost a lot of the older men and women were left to do all the hard work

Rome Explanation

• Latins important: first to give language,  first to come to Rome
• Estrucans and the Greeks also other 2 of first 3
• On the river in the middle, on an elevation so you can see everything, middle of penninsula(Thought chosen people)
• Tarquin last king of Rome, one of old school tryants Unfair, abused power, not just, hard guy
• Tarquin had son who raped a women who was good mannered and such, nobody came to womens defense and she committed suicide
• Decide to take power of regular people, power of rich, and power of tyranny
• Respublica: republic comes from: Latin for peoples affair, peoples job
• Republic combination of three types of government Democracy Aristocracy Plus Monarchy
• Arsitocracy: formed Senate; rich land owning powerful 300 of them own branch of government
• Assembly- tribunes:
• People demanded patricions tell everyone what the laws were
• Demanded 12 tables with all of the rules and punishments were laid out, publicly posted in forum
• Forum is roman agora
• They took years little by little they got more and more demands
• Rich people do not like to get rid of their power
• Monarchy: Consuls: there were 2 consuls; instead of it go through heritage; each consul can veto others; senate would pick 2 consuls; they were only there for 1 year; 10 years apart runs
• Senate in US modeled after Romans
• House of Reps. Is the Assembly
• Roman empire stuck around for so long because they had strong dominant military
• They were respected, feared, terrified people
• Roman Legion: Roman Army
• Legion: 4000-5000 people within for Roman Empire
• People joined army because they felt like it’s the right thing to do and they thought it was their responsibility
• They did not complain about serving
• People stopped wanting to do it for respect, but then they wanted pay
• The Greek falix is like the Roman
• 1/3 people in Rome were slaves
• No one wanted to mess with Romans they were fierce
• Punic: Phonecean adjective
• Rome beats Carthage in first war

Also our group has made our Rome song with the pictures on one note and we will show you on Mondays class.

• Sicili was little island in middle they were fighting for
• Hanibal carthage age 28 young blood, said if they can crush rome and take over then mediterranian
• They fight on sea
• They came the back way
• Hannibal almost pulled off most amazing underdog but the romans defended well
• Rome wins 2nd Punic war
• Rome decides Carthage was annoying and they swamped Carthage and killed many and enslaved survivors
• They annihilated the Carthaginians so utterly left nothing
• People lost a lot of the older men and women were left to do all the hard work

Project cont.

In West. Civ. class we continued to work onto our projects, but it did not turn out to be good. Our projects did not turn out well and we could not get the technology to work. So we kept on doing our work and my group just decided to give up on movie maker and started a powerpoint and we are doing it in a way that we would let it help and enable us to study for, but do not want to just do it to get the best grade possible.

Video

Today in West Civ. we were told that we were going to have to work on making pictures go along with the lyrics in the hit song by the sensational artist Chi-Cago. I am responsible to actually putting the pictures with the words and I have to wait until I receive the pictures from my partners: John and Daniel

ROME ROME ROME

Well, you got the Etruscans and the Greeks

But the Latins came first

To the shores of the River Tiber

They drained a swamp (They drained a swamp)

Next thing you know

Livin’ in Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

Now Tarquin’s kinda proud

But he got a little loud (little loud)

They turned around and ran that tyrant outta town (hey!)

Next thing you know (next thing you know)

No kings no more

Happened in Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

 

Hey, we got three governments rolled into one

Patricians and plebeians havin’ some fun

Two consuls gotta be better than one

Brand new republic ready to run

Democracy

Aristocracy

Plus monarchy

Not a tyranny

Ho-o-o-old up wait a minute, do I see what I think I… hey!

That’s a Roman legion clear as day

5000 soldiers not in it for pay

Group of eighty’s a century

On horseback is the cavalry

Shield, sword, dagger, and armor and tunic

Fightin ’gainst Carthage in wars that are Punic

Hannibal riding on elephant back

Crossing the Alps just to launch his attack

So now you get the picture (picture)

All the rich are getting richer (richer)

And they’re livin’ on the latifundia

Farmers can’t cope (They just can’t cope)

They’re low on hope

They moved to Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

I can hear the brothers Gracchus

Sayin, “Rich, please don’t attack us” (don’t attack us)

“We got a feeling that the senators will whack us” (hey!)

They hit the floor (they hit the floor)

Next thing you know

It’s civil war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war

Hey, let me take you back to 60 BC

It’s the start of the rise of Julius C

He grabbed two dudes and he formed a team

It’s a triumvirate -- that’s a group of three

“Crassus (come on), Pompey (come on), I’m JC! (come on)

We three will rule!

What you think I'm playin, baby girl?  I'm the man!

I'm conquering Gaul!”

All of his soldiers gave him their devotion

That’s why he swept over Gaul just like an ocean

Pompey couldn’t understand all the commotion

When he crossed the Rubicon, he kept up motion

It’s just like a potion

Caesar had self-locomotion

Power’s an ambitious emotion

Dictator is not a demotion

It’s promotion

But in 44 BC (BC)

On a day called March 15 (Ides of March)

Brutus and the Senate murdered Julius C

He hit the floor (he hit the floor)

Next thing you know

Caesar’s no more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more

You know he’s so depressed

23 stab wounds in his chest (in his chest)

He saw his friend and he raised one last protest (hey!)

“Et tu, Brute?” (Et tu, Brute?)

That’s what he say

Cuz he felt low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

 

Only eighteen, Octavian makin’ the scene

He says, “I tell you what,

Got a new triumvirate

Here’s my boy Lepidus

And Mark Antony I trust”

(‘Til Marky met this chick

Cleopatra from Egypt)

Octavian was freakin’

Lust for power started peakin’

“Don’t try to play me or my navy,

At Actium you won’t slay me”

“O” won that game

Did explain

Now Augustus was his name

All his subjects did proclaim

He’s in the Roman Hall of Fame

Twenty-seven BC (BC)

For a couple hundred years (207)

Pax Romana is the word that brings the cheers (Yay!)

They’re on a roll (they’re on a roll)

They built some roads

Leading to Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

Slaves don’t have many rights and

Then there’s gladiator fightin’ (OW!)

People find the Circus Maximus excitin’ (hey!)

Blood on the floor (knee-deep in gore)

And now you know

All about Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

(C'mon!)

LO-2

• Romans were militrary people-patriotic farmersoldiers
• As romans secured position at home they began to reach out for territoires and allies
• Romans had superior army
• Romans generous to defeated enemies
• They were given status of allies
• They kept their laws, government systems, and armies but under Roman authority
• Romans lacked good commanders, soldiers but they always had another army to take its place
• colonists enjoyed rights of citizenship almost equal to citizens that lived in Rome itsel
• By 250 B.C. all of Italy south of the river Po was under Roman command
• Carthage came inot a collision with Rome because of the expanding
• Carthage was founded around 700 B.C. by Phoenician colonists
• Carthage had become an oligarchic and empire building republic similar to Rome
• Spread infulences across Noreth Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia, Corisica, and Sicily
• Interest in Sicily that brought them into collision with Romans
• The most at stake was command of whole western Mediterranean
• Punic Wars were waged on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 B.C. 
• After warfare ROmae was able to force Carthage out of Sicily
• In second phase Hannibal invaded Italy. defeated Roman armies and brought Rome to the brink of defeat
• Roman allies brought troops from all over Italy to eventually over power Carthage 
• After end of second Punic War Carthage was disarmed and helpless
• Fearing a Carthage revival Rome provoked 3rd war in 146 BC and Carthage was captured after bitter fighiting
• Senate ordered city to be leveled, people sold to slavery, and ground to be cursed
• 202 BC Rome had control of the western Mediterranean
• Carthage in Sicily, Spain and Africa became first Roman Provinces
• not unlit 27 BC when Augustus came they began to share benefits of Roman Order
• Conquest of mediterranean west meant enormous increase in bothresources and military power
• from 500 BC to outbreak of Punic wars Romans had unified most of Italy in next 250 years
• They spread their rule from eastern Mediterranean to the British ISeles
• In Spain Rome first gained substantial foothold among peoples of barbarian Europe which they began to expand
• Prospects were promising  for Hellensistic kingdoms, beggining to lose grip
• Rome's first involvment was in Greece
• around 200 BC ambassadors from various city states appealed to Rome for aid in resisting king of Macedonia who had been allied by Carthage
• Romans replied by sending army because of admiration for Hellenic cultrue and greed
• Proffessed aim was to secure liberties of proud and quarlesome Greek cities and then to withdraw
• soon began to acitvely intervene in politics and conflicts of Hellensistic kingdoms
• Romans carved one province after another out of eastern Mediterranean and made many a local ruler into a client king
• By late first century BC they were supreme in the region
• From GIbraltar to Jerusalem fell shadow of mighty Rome

Pixton

Today Daniel and I made a pixton of the legend of Roma! It was very interesting to learn about this and I fully think we will receive a 25/25! LEGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
P.S. We had Ms. Deroba as our sub!
Link to comic

LO-1 Review

• Romans like doing things like Greeks like doing it. They imitated and improved their methods especially government and welfare 
• Roman most feared armed warfare of their time
• In middle of peninsula (middle of mediterranean) (middle of world) middle of the earth high on hills on water
• They thought it was perfect and given to them great location to lead and chosen to run the show
• 3 people to settle Greece, were Latin Etreoscan and Greeks
• 2 things to improve from Greeks was Government and Warfare
• Started out as warfare and governemt started monarchy, but they wanted to be like Roman and they became Democracy like Greece, They have council of elders advise kings (the senate) (comes from sennex means old man from Latin) They then combined oligarchy and democracy to make Republic
• King died senate would meet and decide who would lead, and would be some of their own to be the king did not have to be related to the previous one
• Respublica - republic- means people business- from latin
• Plebeian grows little stuff may keep grains to help feed family keep family and more money maybe
• Patrician farmer has many people working for him and drinks a lot and fabulous foods and grows a lot of grains and sells for big big money
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Rome!

• patricians: upper class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families
• Republic: in reference to ancient Rome, the system of city state government in which decision making power was shared between the Seanate and assemblies of male citizens
• Plebeians- the Roman common people, including workers, small farmers, and wealthy people who were not patricians
• Senate: in ancient Rome, a government assembly appointed, by the king and under the Repulic by the consuls; originally all members were patricians but in time wealthy plebians were apppointed as well
• Consuls: in the roman republic two senators who led the government and military for one year terms and appointed their own successors
• dictator: in the roman republic a single leader with full decision making powers, appointed for a maximum six month term during times of emergency
• tribunes: magistrates elected by the plebeians who eventually gained the power to initiate and veto laws
• Client: aperson who provides personal services in return for money and protection from patron
• patron: a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchange for personal services
• pontiff: in acnient rome one of the republics leading priests
• Paterfamilias: the family father in ancient rome who had unlimited power over his househoold
• Matron: title of honor given to a married woman in ancient rome
• Hubris- Greek for arrogant 

Test study sheet

King Philip II of Macedon
Father of Alexander the Great
he kept many different wives
Was the King of Macedon
One of the best military minds
Trouble with Alexander
Olympia
Mother of Alexander
Got along with Alexander unlike his father
Alexander convinced people he was the son of Zeus because he didn't like his father
Alex tamed horse
only one that coud train horse
Leonidas
Alexander's tutor
Alex was a bad student
Aristotle tutored Alex and taught him the following
Politics
Drama
Poetry
Science
Philosophy
Alex's favorite book was the Iliad and he would not go anywhere without it


King Phillip dies in 336 B.C.
He was assassinated by his own body guard, who was in love with him, and became jealous so he killed him
Bucephalus was Alex's horse
Bucephalus in Greek means "ox-head"
King Philip may have been assassinated by the Persian Empire
Alex took over at age 22
Alex faught against king Porus from India
Battle Guagamela 331 BC
Assakenai/ India Battle
Annapois where Bucepholus died
Alex may have died from the flu or infections, alcohol poisoning, poisoning
Alex had a son, Alexander forth, who was born after his death
Alex said that the strongest gets to be King next
All faught over who was going to be King and the empire got divided
Alexander was the first King of Asia
He conquered the Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt
He ruled the largest empire - Macedonia
Roxana was one of Alex's wives more popular one

I also was absent from class the last day before break.

Presenting and Listening

Today in West Civ class we presented our presentation powerpoints we had been working on! My group was up first since we talked about the parents and we did a solid job. Our group talked about the parents, Olympia (the mother), King Phillip 2 (father), and Zeus (godly father). I know enough about this subject since my group presented it so I will go onto other notes.
Notes:

• King Phillip loved body guard and he got jealous and was killed by him
• Persians paid body guard a lot of money to kill the king
• Olympias and Alexander planned the killing of the king because they did not like him because he was thinking of not giving Alexander the throne
• Alexander took over in 334 BC at age of 20
• His first act was to execute all who had a threat to his seat on the throne

                                                        Education

• He was first taught by Leonidus 
• Tried teaching Alexander horsemanship,archery, and skills valuable to life
• Hr would not listen because he was being a brat 
• Then his father hired Aristotle 
• He was taught politics, drama. poetry, science, and poetry 
• Illiad was his favorite book and he took it with him every single place he went, wars and all
• Bucephellus was a horse no one could tame, but humungous so he tamed him by himself at age 13
• Horse name meant ox head, it is said it had a big head or a birth mark on its side
• He took this horse with him in every single battle

Presentation Cont.

Today in class we had the extra long class, but we got to work on our presentations today, and my part in my presentation looks solid. I have a good grade and I am looking solid so far! After we got a good amount of time to go work on this then we went over our tests. I got a 94 on the test and I am doing well in this class. I got a 90 on the class because I was forgetting to do my blogs, but next quarter (4) I am going ham and going to get first honors! Lets GOOOOOOOO!

Presentation

In class today I was crippled unfortunately and I did not enjoy it at all. Well we were told we are going to have to do a presentation for class on Aleander the Great. My part of his life was his parents. My group was #1 and my group members are Matthew Walker and Taylor Sommers.

Chapter 5

Hellenistic: refers to the international period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule. Internationally connected and impacted by Greek Rule. Alexander takes over at 20 doesn't lose any battle he is involved in.
In 359 B.C. King Philip the 2 of Macedonia comes to power of Macedonia and then he will try and gain control of Greece.
The Athenians lost the Peloponesian war because they got to into themselves and power. They were not content in which what they already had and the flourishing lives they were living, and Sparta was not even going to attack Athens to reign as the undoubted ruler of Greece. The Athenians sticked to their sound strategy at first and it was going well, but they had plague reign over them and they could not conquer that, also their leader, Pericles died of this plague and without him there were people struggling to try and gain control of Athens and be the leader, but it was unnsuccessful. They finally just had to give up because they already had lost 1/3 or 2/3 of their population do to disease and such which lead to their end. The Spartans were just not even compared to on land battle, while the thought was right they failed to realize that Sparta did not have to go to the sea for supplies and got it all on land and were perfectly fine without the sea.

Review Guide

Worksheet / Study Guide for

CLASSICAL GREECE

and

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Want to do well on the next test?  Here’s where to start:  Know what’s on this sheet.  Post the answers on your blog.  Find the answers by checking your text, doing independent research, taking good notes while watching the video, or referring to the website that accompanies the video: http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks .

IMPORTANT DATES:  In a sentence or two, describe what important or historical event took place on the following dates:

1600 – 1200 BC: Mycenean civilization

1150 – 750 BC- Dark Ages

776 BC- Olympic games started

750 – 700 BC- Homer wrote Illiad and Oddessey

508 BC-Athens started democracy, common people threw out Isagaros was taken over, he was unprepared and had to agree to truce and Spartans were taken over, now they turned to Clesithenous to take back over

490 BC- Fidipidis ran in the battle of Marathon

480 BC- Themesticlies created the tririms and that beat Persians and killed King Darius with them and even though they were outnumbered they still won straight of salimus is where they were lowered into

461 – 429 BC- Age of Periclies

447 – 438 BC- they built the Parthanon

431 – 404 BC- Pericluis takes podium and says they must fight Sparta. They had peloponesian war end of golden age, lost 1/3 or 2/3 of people cause of this war, Periclius died because of the plague also

399 BC- Socrates

336 BC- Alexander the Great creating empire

MEN, WOMEN, GODS AND GODDESSES YOU SHOULD KNOW:  In one or two sentences, describe what is significant about the following people (or immortals):

Homer- he wrote Illiad and Oddessey

Odysseus- He was Trojan war hero, spent 10 years trying to come back angers Phosiden and he knocks him off course and many adventures happen

Zeus- Ancient greek god, he was the sky god

Athena- was the patrionist of Athens, was a goddess of wisdom,

Draco- formulate greek laws to one code of laws and very harsh

Pisistratus- he took over because he said he ws with goddess Athena, but he was a tyrant sided with regular folks, lowed taxes gave loans

Cleisthenes- told since birth he was gonna be a leader but was one to warn them of giving tririms

Darius (the Great)- king of Persia during battle of marathon and died

Xerxes- wanted to take down Athens, burned down acropolis later defeated

Pheidippides- ran the marathon and ran to sparta

Themistocles- need to build tririms in case got attacked and

Pericles- he became new leader of Athens he had partner who had equal power chick, got pelopenisian war

Aristophanes- part of red light district

Socrates-Socrates was a man of great logic. He invented the idea of decisions on good and bad and got the Athenian people to think for themselves.

Plato- learned under socrates

Aristotle

Alexander the Great

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION:  Be able to locate the following on a map:

Athens                         Sparta                                      Peloponnesus                          Ionia

Ionian Sea                               Aegean Sea                             Persian Empire

 

GREEK POLITICAL STRUCTURES: Describe these political institutions:

Monarchy                    Democracy                  Oligarchy                    Aristocracy

Monarchy: Was ruled by one King and power is handed down; A monarchy then gave way to new forms of government that distributed power more widely among male citizens

Democracy: Voting, meet in the agora and made decisions together, by the majority of male citizens

Oligarchy: groups of elders, this made more opinions; a minority of citizens dominated the government, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways

PERICLES’ THREE GOALS FOR ATHENS: Name ‘em; describe ‘em.

Glorify athens
stregth democrcy
strengthen empire

GREEK ART: Identify and describe examples in these fields:

Sculpture                     Architecture                            Drama (tragedy and comedy)                 
Sculpture-they created figureens out of different materials like marble or clay like the 40 foot high gold and ivory statue of Athena in the Parthenon       Architecture- building things like buildings and structures like the Parthenon to show how great and talented Athens was         Drama (tragedy and comedy)-the first theater was in the acropolis and civilians went twice a year for festivels and to watch plays; tragedies told stories of great men falling from great heights and loosing everything