Test :(

In Wester Civ. class we did not have a sub and we had to take a test. This was a test I was unprepared for, I strongly displease having an open book test compared to my blog test. My blog has the valuable information that I know I will need, but the book was just very hard, and I had to rush my final few answers because it took me a very long time to do my test. I probably did not get a good grade unfortunately.

LOONNNGGG CLASS

In today's class it was fun because it was fun and cool because we had the long class however we only had one period because we got one mod off to do whatever we want so I am using it to complete my blog and for studying for my biology test. We learned about Sparta and Taylor taught class because she was a so called expert on it. She did a good job if I say so and it was interesting learning about it. It was cool and the rest of class I spent studying on biology. We also had a little thing about banging on the tables and it was cool and shocking the one time he did it very hard. I had an interesting class and it was great can't wait to ACE this test!

NOTES

This is credited to Mr. Schick's website(http://westcivme.blogspot.com/), all his work I just have copied for studying reasons, I am not the creator of this outline!

Chapter 3 Outline
 
I. The European Barbarians (LO1)
        A. The Earliest Europeans
                    1. by 4000BC, farming and village life had spread throughout the                                   continent
                    2. by 3500BC, increased population and wealth led to complex religious                         structures
                               
        B. The Barbarian Way of Life
                    1. common way of life as result of migrations of Indo-European nomads                         (c.2500BC onward) from the steppes that bordered Europe on the east
                    2. languages
                                a. ancestor languages of Greek and Latin
                    3. elites of warriors
                    4. farming and village life
                    5. In this way, Europe came to be inhabited by peoples who spoke mostly                       Indo-European languages; who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare; and who were fairly well organized on the local level, but had no cities, written records, or fixed structures of government
                    6. c.2000BC-1000AD these barbarians came into contact with civilization
                    7. the first such European barbarian people to make contact with                                     civilization were the Greeks - their civilization, the first to emerge in Europe, was the first to definitively be labeled “Western”

II. The Aegean Encounter (LO2)
        A. Minoan Civilization
                    1. c.2200BC a distinct civilization known as Minoan arose on the Aegean                       island of Crete
                    2. Minoans drew wealth from control of the seas and trade with eastern                       Mediterranean lands, especially Egypt
        B. The Arrival of the Greeks: Mycenaean Civilization
                    1. when the Greeks made their way to the Aegean, they seem to have been                     a European barbarian people much like any other
                    2. eventually they came under the influence of nearby Crete
                    3. by c.1600BC Greek chieftains had established settlements along the                           mainland’s southern shore and on some islands
                    4. Mycenaean Greeks
                    5. struggles between Mycenaeans and Minoans for control of the                                     commerce of the eastern Mediterranean lasted until c.1400BC, with the                               destruction of Minoan towns, perhaps as a result of Mycenaean conquest
                               
        C. The “Dark Ages”
                    1. Mycenaean civilization lasted until shortly after 1200BC due to the conquest of the Sea Peoples
                    2. c.1150 Myceneae was sacked and all settlements deserted - in addition, the population dropped, and writing fell out of use
                    3. this led to the eclipse of civilization for almost 400 years, known as the                       Dark Ages (1150 - 750 BC)
                    4. but the Greeks themselves survived and even expanded their territory
                               
        D. The Renewal of Greek Civilization
                    1. c.800 BC the Aegean region recovered
                    2. population expansion led to founding of colonies, c.800-600 BC
                    3. the Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and                                 seafaring nation of the Mediterranean
                    4. a common religion
                    5. new developments
                                a. use of iron tools and weapons
                                b. coined money
                                c. borrowing of Phoenician shipbuilding and warfare techniques
                                d. writing and the alphabet formed the Greek language

III. Citizens and Communities: The Greek City-States (LO3)
        A. City-States and Citizens
                    1. notion of citizenship seems to have originated partly in geography
                    2. hoplites: Greek infantrymen equipped with bronze helmets and armor,                                   round shields, long spears, and short swords
                    3. city-state, citizens, tradition, and myth

        B. Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy
                    1. in the earliest times, communities were ruled by kings
                    2. monarchy then gave way to new forms of government that distributed                         power more widely among male citizens
                                a. oligarchy:  a minority of citizens dominated the government, and the                                                     power of the majority was limited in various ways
                    3. but other city-states gave more power to the majority (particularly those           that developed into large commercial centers)
                                a. in these city-states the common people were too numerous and                                 active to ignore,                                
                                b. in these cities, social conflicts sometimes led to the emergence                                     of tyranny (rule by a dictator)
                                c. but tyranny was often only a passing phase on the way to                                         democracy (all government decisions were made by the majority                                     of male citizens)
                    4. although Greek city-states had many features in common, each was                             individual in character

        C. Sparta: The Military Ideal
                    1. Spartans were descendants of Greeks who had conquered part of the                           Southern mainland: Laconia
                    2. by 800BC they were a minority of landholders ruling over a majority of                       helots (noncitizens forced to work for landholders)
                    3. Messenian helots, however, frequently rebelled
                                a. this forced Spartans to accept a governmental system that put                                   them under almost total domination by a few among themselves
                    4. by 500BC, policy decisions had been taken over by a council of elders
                    5. thus the Spartan government was a leading example of oligarchy
                    6. Spartan male life was dedicated entirely to the service of the state
                    7. the relative freedom of Spartan women aroused both admiration and                           disapproval among other Greeks
                    8. to protect this way of life, Spartans tried to seal off their city-state from                             outside influences

        D. Athens: Freedom and Power
                    1. c.800BC many old-established communities in the Attica peninsula                             merged to form a single city-state that was known by the name of the most             important community: Athens
                    2. over the next 300 years, Athens grew to become the wealthiest and one                       of the most powerful city-states, largely as a result of overseas trade
                                a. produced and exported wine and oil
                                b. workshops produced weapons, pottery, and articles of silver,                                   lead, and marble
                                c. these were trade overseas for metal, timber, and grain
                    3. with a rising population and greater wealth came social and political                             conflicts
                                a. usually between aristocrats and increasingly numerous dēmos
                                b. in conflicts with the aristocracy, the dēmos could generally find                               aristocrats to lead them whom they respected and who wanted their                               support
                    4. as a result, Athens passed through several stages of political growth,                           beginning with monarchy and including both oligarchy and tyranny
                                a. eventually political power was extended to all adult male                                         citizens, with aristocrats becoming leaders instead of rulers
                    5. The Persian Wars
                                a. in the sixth century BC, the Persians had conquered a realm that                               stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean
                                b. now the empire was within striking distance of the Greeks, and                               Persia conquered the Greek city-states in western Asia Minor
                                c. when Athens aided a rebellion by these city-states, Persian king                               Darius sought to extend his empire into mainland Greece, c.494BC
                                d. the Persians lost the decisive battle of Marathon in 490BC
                                e. then in 480BC, the Athenian navy crushed the Persians at                                         Salamis, and the Spartans faced the Persians on land at Thermopylae and            then at Platea
                    6. when final peace was made with Persia in 445 BC, Athens was the                             controlling power of the Aegean Sea
                    7. after Persia’s defeat, Athenian democracy entered a “Golden Age”
                    8. the workings of democracy
                                a. a Council of Five Hundred and roughly one thousand public                                     officials were chosen annually by lot
                                b. chief military officers, the Ten Generals, were chosen each year                                   by vote of the male citizens
                                    c. adult male citizens were a minority of the population of Athens
                                            i. the rest of the population was composed of adult female                                           citizens, adult noncitizens, and children
                                            ii. adult male citizens probably made up no more than one-                                           fifth of the total adult population
                                            iii. the remaining four-fifths had no say in government
                    9. men and women in  Athens
                                a. women were highly visible in religious affairs
                                b. not much is known of women’s life lower down the social scale                                   or outside the city
                    10. slaves
                                a. were a diverse group; not all of them lived lives of total                                             subjection and powerlessness
                                b. most slaves were non-Greeks, or the descendants of non-Greeks
                   
Today in class Mr. Schick first started off by making class really bad in the beginning because he said he was going to be as boring as he possibly could be, he was not as successful as he could have been because we could not take him seriously. He was then back to old Mr. Schick one of the coolest teachers that I have ever had, and I ever will have. I love him always going to remember him. He just went over the outline in which he has created and is available in his blog! That was basically all that we went in class!

Presentations

Well today in class we started having a couple groups go over their presentations. The first presentation was done by Carly, John, and Taylor, they did very well in my mind and if I was grading them I would have given them a high grade, but unfortunately and fortunately I am not the teacher Mr. Schick is. Some of the notes that I took included:

• Had a distict way of life based on farming
• Everytime you come into contact with someone you expand on your way of living life
• The land mass by Sparta is called Peloponnesian penninsula 
• Greeks adapted to sailing
•  1150-750 BC was known as dark ages, mycenaeans were destroyed, didn’t write things down, quite adapting cultures, population went down. Ships were not used, trade was done no more trade
• Minoan drew its wealth from controlling of the surrounding seas and from trade between many lands, especially Egypt

We learned on the mysterious point of the Dark Ages when the civilization stopped progressing and it was weird and they think that the "Sea People" took over and conquered these people who just destroyed the civilization almost and the progress they were making came to an abrupt stop.

Continuing Presentation

Today in West. Civ. class we were at first talking about how Mr. Schick could see what we were doing on our presentations yesterday while he was not in school. Also we were told that the seats had to be arranged better so that her students could not have to re arrange them for her class. Then we were able to continue class, after that we talked about our test and how the average of our class was 78, which in my mind is way to low. However, my personal grade was a 91 which is on the borderline of satisfactory and needs a little work for my personal expectations. Well after we were done that we were told we had the rest of class to work on our presentations, my groups presentation took a step forward and are really on our way to making it great. We had a little bit of fun mixed in with a lot of work because we were inspired by the other students work in which they have done an amazing job on! Well that concludes my day in West. Civ. basically! Tomorrow we have a shortened class because of our 2 hour early bell which I am excited for!

SUB

Today in Western Civ. class we had a sub, the subs name was Ms. Hugo aka Hugaintator . All we did in class was work on our google presentations and we are doing pretty AMAZING in my group. Then after the mod switch we got Ms. Deroba, I have both teachers in classes so I am comfortable with them.

Presentation and Intro To Greece

Today in class we started to go over Greece, this is Mr. Schicks favorite period of time, if he could go time travel back to this time and age he would chose this one just for the fact how intriguing it is to have been in the Greece Golden Age. The notes we took over was basically going over the reading we were suppose to do over the weekend and also Mr. Schicks own personal powerpoint he created. After we were done going over the notes and such we were told we were suppose to make a Google Presentation of Ancient Greece in our own words. I was on top of things and was ready and making it while Mr. Schick was explaining to his new students what it was like why you should use it and how we can create one. I had a good start and picked my group to be Ben, Daniel, and Andy. We are going to make a power team and be amazing at our presentation and get a perfect score on this! Well it was not suppose to be homework and we would do some of it in class the next time we had class! I was also dissappointed now because I don't have my mans Michael to do my projects with like we intended to, but I will survive.... I guess.

BLOG MISSED

Also a sidenote I was not in school on Monday, February 4th because I went to the Ravens Super Bowl parade. On my phone this morning on the blogger app I just read that my blog had not been posted! Sorry Mr. Schick!

LO 1 European Barbarians

The Ancient Greeks first civilations were basically a little changed replication of their eastern neighbors at the time. They were going through the same struggles as their neighbors from the seas and oceans and then finally after a few ways it became "classical" Greek in about 800 B.C. The Greek's cities were the first to start citizens of the civilization to have a say in political matters and run it effectively. The city states also had a trading system with in each other in the Greek empire. The Persain Empire started spreading from Sumerian and Egyptian homelands across southwestern Asia and Africa. During this time there was many people spread across the area to create ceremonial monuments. Megatlithic are ceremonial monements consisting of circles and rows of huge upright boulders, as well as massive earthen tombs and fortifications. The world was spreading out all over Europe and also moving out towards India ect. The world was becoming a lot richer and expanding its borders into a great wealth stage for many civilizations. There came the Greek civilization from all this moving around and from this came the new Greek art forms, way of life and also this shaped the way for Western Civilization as we know it today. One of the most impressive European monuments that had been created was the Stonehenge huge open air monument built by the rich farming and trading people in England. This was rebuilt many, many different times, but its final form was built in 2000 B.C. The Indo Eurpoean people started moving into the area, these people came from the Indian area and adopted into the European area, hence the name "Indo Eurpoean." These people brought their own Indo European languages, but they were ancestors of the Greek and Latin languages. Some of these people were warriors, but most were farmers. These tribal groups fought each other for many things and farming and land. Europe became a country inhabited by Indo European tribes who were skilled in metal working, farming, and trade.  Europe had many towns and such individually, but yet to have any major cities in the continent.

TEST!!!!!!!!!!!

In class today we took the test and I thought it was kind of difficult, but none the less I was well prepared and am confident I have received a high grade upon this test.

Taylor's Dads Adventure and TEST

Well today in class Taylor brought in stuff (heirogrphyics and paper) that her dad had received when he went on an adventure to Egypt, while he was intending to go hiking, but his flight had a problem so he just chilled at Egypt for no reason at all just to have fun. In class the notes that we took were about several subjects
Government:

• Pharoah all powerful, at the top
• Relied on hormany and balance of universe, called this "maat"
• Pharaoh had many wives and all the financial and social success went through the palace
• Women got money/land when they divorce a husband, little political power but big role compared to other societies

Gods Humans and Everlasting Life

• God portayed with animal heads/bodies
• Believed in afterlife, only rich/ pharoah get mumified
• Souls either go to after world or paradise or jobs or eaten by the jaws of a monster

Writtings of the Words of God:

• Writting formed in 3100 BC and were hieroglyphics 
• Represented religious words, parts of words, and temples
• Script developed scribes and preists
• written on papyrus

Calender and Sailboats

• Calender with 365 days for several cycles
• Doctors wrote a lot on health issues and many med procedures
• wooden sailboats constructed

Pyramid and Temple

• Pyramids are massive tone tombs, covered in marble but marble stripped during Muslim conquest
• Temple of Amon at Karna largest religous building huge blacks of stones
• Painting gods kings in series of poses without perspective, but highly affective

Pyramid Challenge

Today in class we started off by talking about our test that would be on Friday. We will have class Thursday and that is when we will review for our test. Mr. Schick has given us many resources to study off of on his blog and we also have our text book to use to help us! Also Mr. Schick put in the course for us on the links section, he put in what we will be doing, when we will be doing it, and what pages the section will be located in our book! Then after that we were told that we would have to do the pyramid challenge and I chose my partner to be with Michael. Of course I had to put the team on my back because Michael could not do it, but thankfully I finished and we got a 9/10. The challenge was very nerv wrecking and I didn't like it, but at the same time enjoyed class! It was a fun class in all to see everyones reactions and all!