Project

Today in class we worked on our project, we re-filmed the hole thing, because we thought it was bad. It looks a lot better now the fact that we have music and it doesn't look like crap. I get to kill Sung Lee its so cool and he also gets to be a girl, the best commercial ever. Me and Sung are the actors and Ryan is the narrator and Kap is the camera man. You will die when you see are storyboard and find our video the best thing in the world. I miss you Mr. Schick we all miss you Our whole class misses you and we want you to get better as soon as possible. Anyway today in Mr. Schick's class we had two different teachers. We had Mr. Bolden second and I can't quite remember who we had first, but she was cool as well. We worked on our storyboard and video again just to touch up  on some stuff. I think that we will do pretty well.

Greece

I read about how the Greeks artisan skills are still being used today and how the Greeks how a strong military thanks to Sparta. Sparta was its own city-state. They lived pretty close but also pretty far from Athens. They had a really strong military power because they would train young boys at the age of 8 to fight and to kill, and once they reached 21 they has a final test and that was to kill an animal in a one on one with a sword, and if they did that then they were officially a Spartan and if that boy was to die then he would be a disgrace to his family but very few died like 1/20 died. If you became a Spartan you were officially a man. You were responsible for defending Greece and Sparta. The Spartans would wear a red rode with body armor on top of that. The red was for this reason if a Spartan was to die in war the enemy could not see Spartan blood. The Spartans were very skilled people they believed in fight face to face and not arrows because that means your a coward and its like a cheap kill. Only the Athenians and other Greeks used arrows. All Greek armies including the Spartans fight for land when the Persians came and conquer us for awhile and then the Greeks fought back. We beat them in the sea and by land. The Persians out numbered the Spartans and killed them at Thermopylae, but the Spartans were holding them and killing as many men as long as they could until they died by arrows. After they died they went to kill the other Greek army, but they failed the Athenians a few Spartans and other Greeks pushed the Persians and killing and pushing them back into there land a broke the bridge from Greece to there land. The Greeks once believed in these made up Gods but now they are Christians or followers of Christ. And I myself am a Greek Orthodox Christian.   

Greece again!!!

Athens and Sparta were each about the same size as a couple of US counties.
Greek city-states developed at the same time that Assyrians were reaching power at Mesopotamia.
-Tribal communities of the Dark Ages turned into city-states

            -Greek city-states were small, usually of no more than a town and a few square miles surrounding it

        -Usually each town or city-state consisted of a couple thousand, while Athens may have reached as many as 250,000

            -Both fortresses and temples were vitally important to the Greek city-states

            -Fiercely competitive communities that often fought

            -Each community would worship a god or goddess (Athens- Athena)

City-States

            -Greece was not controlled by a universal empire, allowing the city-states to fight among themselves

            -Couldn’t afford professional soldiers so they relied on infantry armies from their own males

            -For the males who could afford it, they would equip themselves with bronze helmets and armor, long spears with iron blades and short iron swords

            -Poorer citizens fought as light-armed infantry, annoying the enemy before the stronger part of the army would attack

            -Each city-state was thought to be developed by families or clans descended by a divine or semidivine founder (Athens- King Theseus- Son of Poseidon)

            -Most of citizens claimed to be offspring of common forefathers

            -Status of father determined that of his children

            -There was no reason to fight in an individual state because they were all related somehow

 

Sparta

   -Spartans were descendants of Greeks who conquered the southern mainland

            -They would push west for rich soil

            -Spartan citizens were outnumbered ten to one with noncitizens

            -To hold the helots, Spartans would have to have a government that allowed domination from their own kind

            -Main executive authority were five officials elected annually, and they were usually elder

            -Their way of life dedicated male citizens to the state

            -The males were made as warriors

            -At age of seven boys were taken from their families and would go on an extreme life of physical and military training

            -They were allowed to marry after 20, and bachelors were punished

            -Even married men were required to live in barracks until the age of thirty

            -Women would also have to go into physical drills to become healthy and child-bearing women

            -But they were given more freedom from the state

            -Women were praised if they gave great military ideas

            -After the Spartans were starting to lose battles, Aristotle said that women were useless for war, so trying to protect the Spartans tough life, they tried to seal off their state due to the fact that there best trait, war, was losing out

            -Most Spartans would pay to have their system stay as is

            -With this system, Spartans were the dominant city-state of mainland Greece

Athens

            -According to the Athenians the Spartan way of life was pointless

            -A joke made was the fact that Spartan life would lead to death

            -Athens was not agricultural and landlocked like Sparta but rather carried on prosperous commerce and access to the sea

            -Sparta- army and Athens- navy

            -Sparta- closed and controlled: Athens- open and free

            -But even though Athens was peace and freedom like they were also warlike

            -Over a few centuries Athens was one of the most wealthy and powerful states

            -Citizens, immigrants, and slaves worked together to make weapons, pottery, and articles of silver, lead, and marble

            -These products would be shipped to various places

            -Athenian aristocrats were proud to be excellent humans

            -Their families would marry mostly among themselves

            -The boys were physically fit in anything and at age of 18 assigned to two years of military and civic training

            -They were outstanding in body and mind

            -Even some aristocrat girls would get an education

            -Athens went through many stages of government

            -After democracy was made there were two turning points in life of Athens and Greece

            -First was Persian wars which Athens lead Greece to victory, and then it came to the Golden Age (460 B.C. - 430 B.C.)

            -This time was when Athens were confident, strong, powerful and most successful in all Greece but it was cut short cause of the Peloponnesian wars

            -This war was between Athens and Sparta in which Athens was defeated and never grew back the same confidence

            -In the Sixth Century B.C. the Persians were the first universal empire to attack Greece

            -They conquered Greece until revolutions were made by the Athenians causing Darius I to conquer mainland Greece

            -Son of Darius, Xerxes, sent two expeditions by land and sea to conquer Greece

            -The first was stopped by Athens at Marathon in 490 B.C.

            -Second was stopped ten years later in Salamis near Athens in which Athenian ships destroyed the Persian ships

            -On land a small Spartan force would hold Xerxes and his army in their suicidal stand at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. but the main portion of Spartan armies would defeat the Persians at Plataea

            -Athens would liberate the Greeks of Anatolia in 445 B.C. forcing Persia to make peace

            -Democracy was their only way to survive and thrive at the same time

            -In Athenian Democracy power would rest in adult male citizens

            -Any decision made was made through the Assembly

            -Meetings were held once a week and less than five thousand would attend

            -Meeting place was first at agora but later at a hill called the Pynx

            -Voting was by show of hands

            -Debates were very spirited and this way of government lead to many governments present today

            -To keep balance the people of the government (Council of five-hundred and one thousand public officials that it supervised) were chosen by lot

            -Ten generals were voted each year to command the armies and navies

            -Cause of the amount of general’s, military takeover of power was a very small chance

            -For a court each trial was made up of a draw of five-hundred men from a list

            -This would guarantee a broad judgment of the crime

            -There were no lawyers and every citizen would argue their own case

            -Women power was the same as most other places

            -If the woman was to leave the house she would be escorted by a close male relative

            -They were protected more though by close male companions

            -They were important when it came to worshipping gods and goddesses

            -The fifty thousand or so resident aliens were a varied group

            -They could be wealthy men to slaves, independent women to owner of stores

            -The hundred thousand group of slaves were also diverse

            -Some could get and education and were likely freed in the owners will

            -While some slaves were treated fairly there were many others who were not

            -Athenian laws concerning aliens, slaves, and women were not a part of democracy

Ancient Greek Words

-Polis- Greek City- State

-Politēs- Citizen

-Dēmos- Common People

-Ephors- Overseers

-Agora- Marketplace

-Stratēgoi- Force Commanders

-Hataerae- Female Companions

Vocabulary

            -Colony-a new city-state settled in an oversea territory by a group sponsored by a city-state elsewhere

            -Oracle-a priest or a priestess who was believed to give answers that were inspired by a god or goddess to questions from worshipers at a temple

            -Acropolis-the high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town

            -Hoplite-a heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece

            -Phalanx-a unit of several hundred hoplites, who closed ranks by joining shields when approaching the enemy

            -Monarchy-a state in which supreme power is held by a single, usually heredity ruler

            -Oligarchy-a state in which supreme power is held by a small group

            -Triremes-massive fighting vessels with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships

            -Tyranny-rule by a self-proclaimed dictator

            -Democracy-a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making

            -Helots-noncitizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city-state of Sparta

            -Aristocrats-members of prominent and long-established Athenian families

            -Ostracism-banishment for ten years by majority vote of the Athenian Assembly

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Greece

Approximately 20% suitable for farming

Fertile valleys cover ¼ of peninsula

Mycenaean’s began around 2000bc

Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20ft thick wall

Mycenae kings dominated Greece from 1600 – 2000bc

Controlled all trade in the region

Mediterranean – Middle of the earth

1400bc Mycenaean’s invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language

Around in 1200bc Sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace

The Dorian’s moved into the war – torn region

-Far less advanced

-Economy collapsed

-Writing disappeared for 400 years

Myths

Stories were passed on by the 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 – 700bc

Trojan War was probably one of the last conquest of the Mycenaean’s

Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter

Greece is the reason where the United States is today because are law came from Greece and most buildings are based off of Ancient Greek buildings

LO3, Greece

City-State = Polis

Fortress-Temple precinct = Acropolis

Athens and Sparta each cities of Greece, about the same size as a few United States counties, the population of both town and country ordinarily numbered between a few thousand, Athens may as reached as many as 250,000 thousand people. To the Athenians, the Sparta life was not worth living. One of their favorite jokes was that the life led by Spartans explained their willingness to face death. The Spartans cultivated physical fitness and military courage. Sparta had the more powerful army, and Athenians had a very excellent navy. Together the both of them helped each other out when the enemy came to them and wanted to conquer Greece. The Persian Wars, Darius and later his son Xerxes, sent two expeditions by the land and sea against the mainland Greeks. The Persians lost the first battle at Marathon against the Greeks in 490bc. Ten years later, in a sea battle off the island of Salamis near Athens, the Athenian navy smashed all Persian ships. On land, Spartans forced help up Xerxes army in their renowned suicidal stand at Thermopylae in 480bc. The main body of the Spartans hoplites later routed the Persians in the pivotal land battle of Plataea. But it was Athens that went on to liberate the Greeks of Anatolia from Persian rule and by 445bc the Athenians were controlling the Aegean and parts of the Mediterranean seas. The Greeks and the Persians made peace after the Greeks chased them back into there land and destroyed there bridges over the rivers to Greece.     

Ancient Greece

Ancient Barbarians

• had a distinctive way of life that focused on farming and warfare
• about 2000 b.c. they moved to southeastern Europe
• The Greeks shared knowledge and adjusted to barbarians way of life

Ancient Greeks

• first civilization in 800 b.c.
•  was influenced by the barbarians
• the Greeks started having ideas
• art forms
• types of government
• their influence has still lasted to todays world
• were the first to practice in citizen government
• colonized the northern coastlands of the Mediterranean sea
• Italians loved their way of life and modeled their civilization after the Greeks
• innovators in:
• warfare
• developing methods of fighting by land and sea
• shortly after 500 b.c.
• enabled them to keep independence against Persia
• universal leaders of the time
• Greeks would eventually replace them

Vocabulary Terms

•    Barbarian- a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 b.c.
• Megaliths- Massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs
• Tribe- a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interest, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship

The Early Europeans

• by 4000 b.c. farming and village life had spread thought the continent
•  this brought population and wealth
• 3500 b.c. there were people in in western Europe who could construct ceremonial monuments consisting of circles and rows of huge upright boulders, tombs and fortification
• 3500 b.c. megalithic structures constructed in Europe
• 2500 b.c. Indo-European nomads from the steppes migrate into Europe; European barbarian way of life evolves
• 2200 b.c. Minoan civilization takes root in Crete; Greeks arrive in southeastern Europe
• 1600 b.c. Greek fortified settlements along the Aegean develop Mycenaean civilization
• 1400 b.c. Destruction of Minoan towns
• 1200 b.c. Mycenaean civilization falls; beginning the "dark ages" of Greek History
• 800 b.c. Recovery in the Aegean; Greek city-states form
• 494-445 b.c. Persian wars
• 460-430 b.c. Golden Age of Athens

I will make it my life goal to find out how Stonehenge, its really tall and there is rocks on top of them, I cant imagine how people could of done that. Maybe aliens did help them I mean the Egyptians have aliens drawn in there pictures. So maybe there is aliens that we don't know about. But I will find out how Stonehenge was made, and that is a promise.   

class today

Today we got our test back. I got a 68% oh well I still have a good grade next time I should of study more. We didn't really do anything in class today all we did was review through the test and I showed you my completed pyramid. It took me forever to get it, I got my dad and mom to help me nope they couldn't get it either, I actually completed it this morning with Devin Darrington he was helping me and he got it in the first try. He was so lucky he got it I really thought he was going to do it because he did the nile expedition and not skipping and he finished it n 25 days. He was so lucky I cant stressed that enough. Oh well im just I finished it to be honest. Honestly please don't give me any more of those because I will fail it and trust me I will I know I will.