Devin once again is teh teacher LOL!!!!!

Today in class we just reviewed stuff. We reviewed the Spartans and the Athens. Devin was teacher and nobody except like William and Ryan and Austin and Caroline and Scott. It was a cool class but Devin thought that Maria was going to ask a question but she didn't she didn't really she asked to go to the bathroom it was really really funny. Then Devin made everyone give like one thing that they learned about the Athens and the Spartans. Then Mr. Schick liked the idea so he said can he use it and Devin said yes. Then Mr. Schick asked who else does that and Devin said nobody and he said that Mr. Schick had to give him credits. And use easy-bib it was so funny. Now these are the notes that i didn't get on Monday:

• Trireme is a big boat used for the navy
• Take prisoners off the other ships
• Phalanx: 256 guys holding long spears
• Sparta was more controlled and more organized
• Women couldn’t vote or slaves
• Free native owners could vote ONLY them
• Aristocrats: Members of prominent and long-established
• Aristocrats were rich and owned land
• Sparta had a Monarchy
• Athens has a Democracy
• Monarchy: 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 self-proclaimed dictator (a tyrant)
• Democracy: In ancient Greece, a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making
• Phalanx: A unit of several hundred hoplites, who closed ranks by joining shields when approaching the enemy

Snowy tuesdays

Geography of Greece

• Mountainous peninsula
• mountains cover 3/4
• Approximately 1,400 islands inn the Aegean and Ionian seas
• location shaped its culture
• skilled sailors
• poor natural resources
• Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks b/c of the terrain; developed small, independent communities
• Geography (continued)
• Approximately 20% suitable for farming
• Fertile valleys cover 1/4 of peninsula
• b/c of geography the Greek did consists of grains, grapes, olives, and big trees
• Lack resources most likely led to Greek colonization
• Temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
• used big trees to get wood to build ships b/c they could
• Mycenaean's
• Began around 2000 BC
• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20ft wall around their city
• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BC
• controlled trade in the region
• 1400 BC Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language 
• Culture in decline
• around 1200 BC 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
• DARK AGES
• Homer and myths
• Stories were passes on by word of mouth
• homer lived at the end of the "Greeks Dark Ages"
• recorded stories of the Trojan war in The lliad and The Odyssey (written 750-700 BC)
• Trojan war was probably one of the lasts conquests of the Mycenaean's
• Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic bexameter

LO3 Citizens and communites: The Greek city-states

• Dark ages began to develop into city-states.
• Communities of this kind had often arisen before, for example, among the Sumerians and Phoenicians at times when there was no powerful kingdom or empire to limit their independence
• Athens and Sparta each about the same size as a couple of U.s countries.
• Both Fortresses and temples were vitally important to the Greek city-states
• Acropolis: The high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town
• The Greek language is the first that is known to have a specific word for a member of such community: polites, or "citizen"
• City-states and citizens
• The notion of citizen participation seems to have originated partly in geography
• The Athenian Owl: That was the slang name of this tetradrachma(four drachma coin), Because the owl, the sacred bird of Athena, on reverse (tails side). One the obverse (heads side) the goddess herself wears a warriors helmet. The coin, is pure silver
• Hoplite: A heavily armed and armed citizen- solider 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 small group
• Triremes: Massive fighting vessels with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships
• Tyranny: Rule by self-proclaimed dictator (a tyrant)
• Democracy: In ancient Greece, a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making
• "Alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt there now appeared a third great civilization: that of classical Greece." 
• Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy
• Many city-states in mainland Greece were oligarchies, above all Sparta.
• The most powerful and successful of democratic city-states was Athens, but there were many others, particularly among the Greeks of Asia Minor and elsewhere on the Mediterranean coastline.
• Sparta: the military ideal
• Helots: Noncitizens forced to work for landholders in ancient city-state of Sparta
• The conquerors became prisoners of their own success. Though the Laconian helots were relatively well treated and even fought in the army, The Messenians were harshly exploited, never accepted their defeat, and often rebelled.
• The Spartan Way of Life
• Along with this government system there went a way of life that dedicated male citizens entirely to the service of the state
• A winner in the Heraean Games? This bronze statuette of a female runner is looking backwards, as if at other runners behind her. Perhaps she is ahead in one of the women's foot races in honor of Zeus`s consort Hera that were held alongside the Olympic Games
• Aristocrats: Members of prominent and long-established Athenian families
• Athens: Freedom and Power
• To the Athenians, the Spartan life was not worth living
• One of their favorite jokes was that the life led by the Spartans explained their willingness to face death
• Aristocrats and commoners
• Athens grew to become the wealthiest and one of the most powerful of Greek city-states
• From Monarchy to Democracy
• As a result, Athens passed through several stages of political growth, beginning with monarchy and including both oligarchy and tyranny
• The Persian Wars
• In the sixth century B.C. the stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean
• The workings of Democracy: The Assembly In Athenian democracy, ultimate government power rested in the assembly of adult male citizens
• The workings of Democracy: Officials and courts
• As an additional check on aristocratic power, the council of five hundred and roughly one thousand public officials that supervised- tax collectors, building inspectors, and the like-were nearly all chosen annually by lot.
• Ostracism: Banishment for ten years by majority vote of the Athenian Assembly
• Women in Athens
• Most of what is known of the life of Athenian citizen women comes from surviving law court speeches composed by famous orators: in other words, it reflects conditions in families ( from small farm and business owners up to the "fine and noble" elite)
• Aliens: The fifty thousand or so residents aliens were a very varied group Some were wealthy businessmen, or independent women like Aspasia, who were socialized on equal terms with the "fine and noble" ferent from citizens in the same lines of business
• Slaves: The hundred thousand or so slaves in Athens were also a very diverse group, not all of them living lives of total subjection and powerless
• Democracy within traditional civilization
• The Athenian laws and customs concerning women, aliens, and slaves, were not special feature od democracy as such.
• They were local version of traditional values and practices that the Athenians shared with most of the world at the time.

Athens:

• One of their favorite jokes was that the life led by the Spartans explained their willingness to face death
• Athens carried on a prosperous commerce and had direct access to the sea
• Athens chief strength was its navy.
• Athens welcomed foreign ideas and visitors
• Athens were proud of their free way of life
• Flowed daring inventiveness, glorious literature, and stunning creations of mind and hand 

Sparta:

• More war based
• More Strict
• Tried to seal off their city-state from outside influences
• Had little contact with foreigners
• Boys were taken at young ages and were taught writing and reading and were started on a lifelong routine of physical toughening and military training
• Had the more powerful army
• Sparta was a tightly controlled society
• Cultivated physical fitness and military courage

Test Review!!!!

So today in human geo we reviewed our tests!!!!!!!Nobody got a ding ding or even a ding!!!!!!!!Which means nobody in our class got an A. It was depressing but on the bright side I only missed 7 questions. Not bad for missing a lot of school (: Im ok with wat I got. Anyways people got the question "What does prehistory mean like how do u miss that question?? Anyways not many people did well on this test he was kinda challenging but next test I WILL GWT AN A!!!!!!I want a ding ding or even just a ding(: And my mom just asked me all the questions on the test and I got a 100% Im going to rock the next test.

WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well today was a good day!!!!!!!!!!! we had to do this pyramid challenge thing and it was really hard. And we were allowed to work in partners and as everyone prob knows by now by human geo buddy changed classes so now she cants be my western civi buddy. But its ok because I have a new western civi buddy. Nat she is my new western civi buddy and today we won the pyramid challenge. This is how it went:


                                       ____________Winners!!!______20/20 points

                                   _______________________________ 18/20 points

                          ________________________________________16/20 points

               ___________________________________________________14/20 points

     _____________________________________________________________ 0/20 points
                                                If you don't finish!!!!!!!!!!!


And I would just like to say that me and Natalie were at the top of that pyramid we got 20/20 BAMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first European Civilization: The Greeks 2200-400 B.C.

• "Within Classical Greek Civilization there appeared ideas. Art forms, and types of government whose influence on western civilization has lasted down to the present day."
• The Athenian Acropolis was already ancient when its temples were rebuilt after Persian invaders destroyed them in the fifth century B.C. The Parthenon (right) was the "place of the Maiden"- the "home" of the city-state`s virgin goddess, Athena.
• Barbarian is a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that become widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C.
• Megaliths is massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs
• Tribe is a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship
• The earliest Europeans
• Even before this historic encounter, the way of life of the peoples of Europe had undergone many changes and advances.
• By 4000 B.C. farming and village life had spread throughout the continent
• Chronology:
• 3500 B.C. Megalithic Structures constructed in Europe
• 4600-430 B.C. Golden Age of Athens
• The Barbarian Way of life
• Stonehenge: The most famous of megalithic structures was built by a farming and trading people in the west of England about 2000 B.C.
• "when leading warrior dies, his horses and chariot, his bronze (or later, iron) swords and daggers, and his gold and silver drinking cups would all go to the grave with him-presumably so he could go riding, fighting, and drinking as a comrade of the gods in the afterlife."
• The Greek Homeland: The Greeks settled in mainland Greece from about 2000B.C. onward, coming as migrants from somewhere farther north.
• The Aegean Encounter:
• The scene of this encounter was a region stretching from mainland Greece across the Aegean Sea.
• Minoan Civilization
• The Arrival Of the Greeks: Mycenaean Civilization
• The "Dark Ages"
• Colony: In ancient Greece, a new city-state settled in an oversea territory by a group sponsored by a city-state located elsewhere
• Oracle: A priest or priestess who was believed to give answers that where inspired by a god or goddess to questions from worshipers at a temple.

My 2nd essay:

The Nile River is very important to the Egyptians because it was used for transportation, Irrigation, bathing, and water to drink. Every July it floods. Every October it leaves behind rich soil. The delta is getting a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt. Managing the river required technological breakthrough in irrigation. In my first 2^nd paragraph I’m going to explain how transportation of the Nile and Irrigation were important. In my 3rd paragraph I’m going to talk about how bathing and water to drink from the Nile is important.

 

The Nile was good for transportation for the Egyptians because once they had sailboats they could travel longer distances along the Nile. They could fish and they could get to places quicker. It helped for irrigation because it would flood or they could go get water from the Nile to water the plants and the food. So there was good farming land and the crops grew better because of the rich, and nice soil.

 

 

The Nile was good for bathing because if you were dirty you could go take a bath. If you were hot you could go take a nice bath. You could even give your animals that you were rising like you horse or pigs, etc. The water was good for drinking because you could go get water for yourself to drink or your family to drink. You could also use the water for your animals to drink.

Daily Life Essay:

Daily Life: Pharaoh, Government officials, Soldiers, Scribes, Merchants, Artisans, Farmers, Slaves and Servants. Slave/servants helped the wealthy with household and child rising duties.

Raised wheat, barley, lentils onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile

Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife

Money/Barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment-later, coinage came out. Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments. They were hieroglyphs and in hieratic. Soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and arrows and spears) w/ bronze tips.

 

Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers. Religious and political leader. Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the little "Lord of the two lands." Owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defeated against Egyptian Foreigners.

 

Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh. Some had a strap on beard if they choose not to actually grow one. Cleopatra VII also served as a pharaoh, but was much later (51-30BC) more on when we study Greece. Goddesses and Gods, Over 2000 Gods and Goddesses. They "controlled" the lives of humans

My short anwsers!!!!

Short Answer A: The ancient Egyptians invented the plow for dragging the ground so they could plant food. The invented the sailboat so they could get around easier and they could travel to farther places quicker. They also invented the writing form “cuneiform” so they could write and read.

 

Short answer B: Three important features are one was where they would keep the mummies body. They would put the body in the casket and bury it in the pyramid. Another feature was the secret passages and hallways that lead to the casket or the body. Also they would have to choose the right stone outta like 100 other stones and pick the right one to open up the door.

Doing Watever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We didn't do anything today but study. we got to review our notes and study for the quiz tomorrow! I WILL GET AN "A" ON AT LEAST ONE OF UR TEST BEFORE TEH END OF FRESHMAN YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am determined to get a "Ding" Anyways I really hope we get off Thursday and Friday that would be so nice! The snow has been heavy this year but I like snow I don't really mind it that much. I wish Angela was still in our class this is my first test without her. She always told me you will get an "A" this time I know it. And even though I didn't ever get an "A" it was still awesome having her in my class. I hope this test tomorrow is at least easy or kind of easy. I'm pretty proud of my grade in this class so far I actually have an "A" because I've been keeping up with my blogs. I promised Angela that I would try to keep up better with my blogs this semester and I am. Well thts about all!!!!!!!!!!

To fast to keep up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today Mr. Schick went wayyy to fast for me to keep up anyways we learned:

• Geography
• Daily Life
• Pharaoh
• Goddesses and Gods
• Pyramids

-Geography:

• Nile gives you water to drink, for irrigating, bathing, and for transportation
• every july it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil
• The delta is getting a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• Managing the river required technological break through in irrigation

-Pyramids:

• The great Sphink of Giza
• Built in 2555-2532BC
• A recumbent lion with a humans head
• Oldest monumental statue in the world

-Daily Life:

1. Pharaoh
2. Government officials
3. Soldiers
4. Scribes
5. Merchants
6. Artisans
7. Farmers
8. Slaves and Servants

• Slave/servants helped the wealthy with household and child rising duties
• raised wheat, barley, lentils onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
• Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• Money/Barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment-later, coinage came out
• Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and metical treatments
• They were hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and arrows and spears) w/ bronze tips
• Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers
• Religious and political leader

-Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the little "Lord of the two lands"

• Owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defeated against Egyptian Foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh
• Some had a strap on beard if they choose not to actually grow one
• Cleopatra VII also served as a pharaoh, but was much later (51-30BC) more on when we study Greece

-Goddesses and Gods

• Over 2000 Gods and Goddesses
• They "controlled" the lives of humans

The rest of my notes!!!!!!!!!!

• The Nile and the "two lands"
• Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile, lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean sea.
• The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revealed in love and writing
• C. 1300 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh" government by a god-king
• Pharaoh was all powerful, worship as a God and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "maat"
• Pharaohs has multiple wives, often their own sisters, and all routes to financial and social success were through the palace
• Women and inherit money and land and divorce their husbands though only a tiny few ever wieded real political power
• Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life
• Gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
• The pharaoh Akenaten a "Aten," a sundisk, and tried to make Aten the supreme God of Egypt
• Egyptians believed in an after-life and mummified bodies to preserve them for this past-death journey
• Take out brains and heart and keep them in jars to preserve
• All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster

new seats!!!

I now sit in a row of boys im surrounded by them I have Brandon I think thts his name on my left and Scott sits in front of me and Devin sits behind me. Anyways today we learned:

• The Nile and the "two lands"
• Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile, lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean sea.
• The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revealed in love and writing
• C. 1300 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh" government by a god-king
• Pharaoh was all powerful, worship as a God and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "maat"

Lo3 land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

• The Narmer palette: this palette was used for grinding makeup for divine images in an upper Egyptian temple about 1300 B.C. The intertwined necks of two tethered beasts around the grinding area are believed to symbolize the union of the two lands.
• Ancient Egypt: Egyptian civilization grew up in a thin strip of fertile land where the Nile crosses the North African desert, and in the broader region of the rivers delta.
• The Nile and the "Two Lands"
• The Nile played a role in Egypt similar to that of the Euphrates and Tigris in Mesopotamia.
• Pharaohs: The rulers of ancient Egypt
• Government by a God-King
• "Hail to thee, O Nile, that issues from the earth and comes to keep Egypt alive! Hidden in his darkness by day , to whom minstrels have sung. He that waters the meadows which Re created, in order to keep every kid alive. He makes to drink the desert and the place distant from water: that is his dew coming down (from) heaven."
• Tending the "cattle of God"
• Men and Women under the Pharaohs
• Daughters could not usually inherit government and temple positions, but priests made sure their wives were prestigiously employed in their temples as "Great ones of Musical Troupes," directing the worship of Gods with music and song.
• Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life
• The Soul Declares its Innocence
• By about 2000 B.C., The judgment of the soul after death and eternal life for those who judged righteous became widely accepted beliefs. The newly dead were thought to travel by night through tests and ordeals in the underworld before rising the next morning with the sun-god Re.
• The Declaration of innocence
• To be said on reaching the hall of the two truths so as to purge[name] of any sins committed and to see the face of every god.
• The writing of the Words of God
• Hieroglyphs: The earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words.
• Calendars and sailboats
• Pyramid: A massive structure with sloping sides that met at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
• Pyramids and Temples
• King Menkaure (mycerinus) and his queen, 2500 B.C.: The queen has her arm protected around her husband, a typical pose in Egyptian statues of married couples that testifies to the status and power of upper class women. the kings pose, with his arms at his sides, fists clenched, and left foot forward, remained typical of Egyptian male statues for thousands of years and influenced early Greek sculpture.
• Isis, guide of souls: In his tomb painting, Isis leads Nefertari, principal wife of the New Kingdom pharaoh Ramses II (about 1250 B.C.), into the land of the dead.
• The rhythm of Egypt's history
• After several hundred of years of early state building, the power of the pharaohs first reached its height in the period known to modern scholars as the Old Kingdom, beginning about 2700 B.C.
• "I crushed a million countries by myself, on `Victory-in-Thebes,` `Mut-is-pleased,` My horses": A scene from the Battle of Qadesh in Syria (1274 B.C.), as described by the New kingdom pharaoh Ramses II. The Egyptians have fled before a Hittite army-- except for the pharaoh, who prays to Amon-Re for help, lashes hid horse` reins around his waist, drives against the foe, and scatters them.
• Native Egyptians pharaohs continued to rule Upper Egypt from Thebes, and in 1600 B.C. they were able to defeat the Hyksos rulers and bring the nation into its imperial era, the New kingdom.

From prehistory to civilization!!!

• LO1: Trace the key developments of prehistory, from the emergence of our human ancestors to the beginnings of village life.
• "Language, Religion, Art, Technology, Farming, Family Life, and village communities-All these basic features of human existence originated in prehistoric times."
• The temple of Amen: This temple, constructed about 1600 B.C. near the Egyptian city of Thebes, remains the world`s largest religious building today.
• Pre-history: The period before history was recorded through written documents
• Before civilizations the prehistoric Era
• The origins and "ages" of human beings
• "if we reduce the time since the first humanlike species appeared( about 2.5 million years ago) to the period of a twenty-four-hour day, the five, thousand-year era of civilization takes up less than the last three minutes."
• the earliest (and longest) prehistoric period is called Paleolithic
• The period of human history characterized by advances in stone tool making and the beginnings of agriculture is the Neolithic age
• The hunting and gathering way of life
• cave paintings: These images of wild beasts were painted about 25,000 years ago deep in a cave in southern France.
• Humans began to walk on 2 legs, releasing their hands to make and use tools and weapons; body hair thinned out, digestions weakened, clothing, cooking, and fire, brains grew larger, making possible language and abstract thought, complex manual and physical skills. 
•  Mesopotamia's lands were located in a place between the Tigris and Euphrates called The Fertile Crescent.
• Egypt being located in the southeast of Africa
• The agricultural Revolution
• Southwestern Asia: Humankinds first Agricultural revolution began in the lands of the Fertile Crescent, where farmers could depend on regular rainfall
• Agricultural Revolutions- shift from hunting and gathering food to a more settled way of life and based on farming and herding that occurred gradually between 8000 and 4000 BC in much of western Asia, northern Africa, and Europe, separately in other parts of the world