Class Today

Today in class we took a lot of notes on Greece and went over the movie from Friday the notes are below !

crucible of civilization

• Geography of Greece
• Mountains peninsula 
• mountains cover 3/4
• approximately 1400 islands in the aegean and linian seas 
• poor natural resources 
• skilled sailors
• location shaped its culture
• difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because the terrain developed small independent communities
• 20% of Greece suitable for farming
• fertile valleys cover 1/4 of peninsula 
• because of geography the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives
• Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization 
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• temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
• Mycenaeans 
• began around 2000 B.C 
• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall 
• controlled trade in the region 
• 1400 B.C Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language 
• Culture in Decline
• The dorians moved into the war-torn region
• far less advanced 
• economy collapsed 
• writing disappeared for 400 years 
• Homer and Myths 
• Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth
• Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
• Recorded stories of the Trojan War in The lliad and The Odyssey
• Written 750-700 B.C
• Greek Concepts 
• Arete , the virtue and excellence
• Epics, narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
• Myths were created to explain creation
• Zeus: leader of the gods
• Hera: Zeus' wife
• Athena: goddess of wisdom
• Clisthenes
• We was born as a ruler
• The night of the Athenian war was a turning point for his life and all of Greece
• He set his fellow Greeks on the path to empire
• born around 508 BC
• Grew up knowing he was an aristocrat
• Athens
• became a empire of its own 
• located in greece
• life expectancy was less then 15 years
• Olympia
• ancestor of Olympic game 
• 776 BC
• competition of wealthy and Clysones made it so anyone could compete
• chariot
• running
• boxing
• Pericles- born into one of Athens's most elite families- Aristocratic origins
• Started out as Aristocrat but ended up letting the people continue to rule their own government;
• Came up with the idea of the Parthenon & was directly involved in the planning project
• Began to plan a new adventure - Brought Athens not Glory, but the loss of their empire
• Sparta was the only city state who matched Athens in power
• The fatal flaw - You have a great person who does so many things but they have one flaw that they can't give up;
• Huberous- excessive pride and arrogance
• Parthenon- massive, beautiful building; with enormous statue of Athena in it
• Cost over a billion in todays terms
• It is the most glorious symbol of Athens
• Statue of Athena was over 40 feet tall - taller than JC
• Done as a labor of love
• A bunch of friezes [ A narrow shallow little piece of marble; 2 1/2 inches thick in depth]
• 500 feet of these surrounding the statue- in the form of farmers, artisans, etc.
• Glorifying the common people as well, democracy
• Makes democracy come to life
• Aspasia - a prostitute
• Pericles treated her as a normal person
• Thought to have written Pericles's speeches
• She was not from Athens - Foreign born
• Astonishing that she had so much to say, so much input; while the women of Athens were to be seen but not heard
• Athenian population would gather twice a year to watch popular entertainment at their theatre- they invented drama/theatre.

Today !

Today in class we went over the rest of the power points that we had finished up ! Some of them were great and I learned a lot of new information ! Mr.Shick will not be here tomorrow so we are going to start watching a movie and it looks really interesting !

School Today

Today in class we got a book read to us , and we are going to start studying the Greeks !
We started a class power point and there were going to be fourteen slides ! Each person got a slide and mine was Cyrus the Great ! This is going to be a lot of fun to look at when they are all done and im excited to see the power point in the end !

Didn't meet !

Today we didn't meet in class !

Notes for Egypt

these are the notes we took today for Mondays test :


geography 
daily life
pharaohs 
goddesses and gods
pyramids 
Egyptian life is centered around the Nile river
water for drinking , for irrigating , for bathing, transportation
every July it floods and every October it leaves behind rich soil
managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation

pharaoh
government
soldiers
scribes
merchants
artisans
farmers
slaves and servants

artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife .
hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh

No class today

Today we didn't meet in class !