More Tests!

Today in class we started off slow. We went over more answers. We had a shadow today in class and his name CJ. It was Jordan's shadow and he was a basketball player. We joked around with him. Mr.Schick surprised us with donuts!  They were so yummy! After finishing going over our past tests we went over our project. Some people switch, but most people kept theirs. I kept mine because I think it was be pretty fun to do. After that we did that Mr.Schick went around and asked each of us what our project is on. We had to share some of our ideas. I think I'm going to dress up and do a cool PowerPoint.

Project .... Yay, NOT

Today in class Mr. Schick told us about the project we are going to be doing. I got Greek army/ Battles. I hope it isn't to hard. I want to get a great grade on this project. I can do the following things:
- Bring Video
- PowerPoint
- Weapons
- Name what they did to prepare
- Things they used
- Act things out
- Write paper
I want to think of something creative! Anyways, after that we went over our quizzes we took. I got an A on the test so i am pretty happy! We talked about the answers and went over things. It was a fun class!

POP QUIZ

Today in class we had a "pop" quiz. I already knew about it and Mr.Schick warned us, but I'm sure some people didn't know about it. It was 29 multiple choice questions. I think it was worth about 58 points or so. A lot of people asked Mr.Schick if he would give them something so they could bring their grade up. I didn't really want to have a quiz because I am happy with my grade, but oh well. We could use our blogs for help so it wasn't to bad. I hope i did well and I hope everyone else did too!

Grades Are In!

Today in class we talked about our grades. He put in our grades on powerschool. Some are happy and some are very made. I'm pretty pleased actually.
Homer:            
Cleisthenes:            
Darius:
Pisistratus:         
Isagoras:                
Hippias:       
Pheidippides: 
tyrant:  is one who illegally seizes and controls a governmental power in a polis.            
hoplite:  small group of soldiers           
democracy:  is a legislative system in which all citizens exercise direct and equal participation in the development, proposal and passage of legislation into law.
agora:  was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states.            
acropolis: means "highest city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity. A wall.     
aristocracy:  is a form of government in which a few of the most famous citizens rule. 
frieze: Inner wall of the temple that had scalpure carve init. 

• When PERICLES Parthenon was built in 15 years people were shocked. 
• People were astonished! 
• Aspasia: the beautiful woman, but like a prostitute
• She would help Pericles a lot
• Tyra: Greek for companion 
• Tragedies were the favorite of shows that the Greeks watch
• Edopis was taken away from his parents at a young age; married his own mother without knowing it
• He cut out his eyes when he found out; killed his father without knowing it
•  found out he was having a sexual relationship and kids with his own mother; He cut out his eyes when he realized he was married to his mother
• He mother hung her stuff when she found out
• He was a great leader as well though
• hubris: the fatal flaw; people try to found out stuff that they don't want to know
• Theaters were built everyone
• Pericles wanted to make them the leader of the mediteranian 
• He wouldn't bring them glory, but death and the lost of their empire
• 431 B.C Pericles took the podium and told the Athenians with his plans
• He wanted to go to war with Sparta 
• Sparta was the only place that had the power like Athens
• Pericles was convinced it was time to take over Sparta
• The Athenians were down for it and wanted to
• Pericles knew this was going to be difficult
• He convinced the people to go to the harbor and leave all their things
• He was going to use the Athenian Nazy 
• They were going to make walls that will help block Sparta

Greece !

Today we started off class all fun! We were just joking around and talking. Then we got serious and started the video again.

• Themistocles was blunt; He learned his leadership where they had the meetings
• He began to build a bold and 
• Trieme: Boat that had power and speed; It stacked many men on three levels.
• They were expensive, narrow, and fast like a bullet
• 480 B.C the Athenians struck silver
• They wanted to divide the knew riches to themselves, but Themistocles wanted to spend the money on the boats
• He wanted to use it to battle Egina 
• He convinced the Athenians to build a huge army with 200 triemes 
• 486 B.C Xerxes (Themistocles son) took over after he died
• Xerxes began to build his army of 2 million men
• 480 B.C the Persian army sent out for Greece
• Xerxes was confident though and thought they could win this
• Athenians were panicking when they got news
• Oracle Delphi: it was where people came to ask questions
• It was the source of answer; Just a place people went 
• They asked what would happen and she said they wouldn't make it
• Themistocles didn't listen though; he kept believing
• "The wooden wall only should not fail"- Oracle
• He had the people evacuate for the first time. 
• Salamis is where Themistocles said to gather before battling
• He wanted everyone to go into exile; leave everything they had
• The Persians burned the temples and their meeting place
• They could see the fire from Salamis and wondered if they could ever go home
• Themistocles meet the other Greek leaders on the Island of Salamis 
• The Persians had gathered an army 4 times the size of Athens
• But Themistocles wanted to fight at see and he stuck to his guns
• strait of Salamis was where he wanted to fight (between)
• The Persians had lost 200 ships
• It was a stunning victory for the Greeks
• The game is over and the Greeks had won
• He convinced Athens to build a navy, leave their homes, fight at sea, etc.
• Themistocles ideas sounded crazy, but it worked
• He put Athens in a position where they can make an empire of their own
• Athens was out numbered 4 to 1 but they made the Persians suck
• Persians had to hurry home 
• Just a common guy did this;l it was a knew dawn
• They were the had of the Navel confederace and on the way to a super power
• Delian League: was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Greco–Persian Wars.
• 450 B.C they had become Athens empire and had many men
  
• The Greeks had everything and were moving along 
• The still had democracy and used their pebbles
• Once a year they would pick a person to be ostrosized 
• They didn't want anyone to be to powerful; they would put someones name on a stone and who ever had the most votes was kicked out
• Themistocles was ostrozsized and kicked out; he wounded from state to state and died in Persia in exile 
• They wanted to find a new leader, PERICLES 
• He was the leader of Athens and was going to change everything forever!
• He was born into a one of Athens most elite family
• He knew what the people wanted; a city to fit a great empire
• Pericles announced a new idea to the people; 
• He wanted to make the best empire; he wanted to make Athens awesome
• He wanted the best art, everything; they had the money to do everything
• 20 years earlier they had defeated the Persians
• Pericles made a new partenon: gathering place?
• It was going to be huge, expensive, over 1 billion dollars 
• It was astonishing with a huge statue of Athena (40 ft. tall, gold, ivory, jewels)
• Frieze: marble that ran around the inner wall of the temple; 2 inches thick
• The monument still stands today
• Pericles divoced his wife an took off with an aspasia 
• Aspasia: a beautiful foreign born women thats job was an escort
• She was kind of a prostitute but brilliant
• They had a place where they had entertainment and did it 2 times a year
• The Greeks invented Drama 
• Commedy & Tradjecties  

Today in class we continued the movie. We proceeded to take important notes.

•  Pisistratus seized power by coming into Athens with a beautiful woman pretending to be Athenia and said let me be ruler; they went with it
• Cleisthenes was brought up as a ruler and an aristocrat
• Athens was rocked by an extraordinarily event
• The people put their destiny in their own hand
• They rose up in a revolution
• Isagoris the leader who took over after Hippias 
• The people rose up against the leaders and no one had ever done this in the past
• 508 B.C Athens was first made an empire
• The people siezed power from their rulers for the first time
• They wanted more freedom
• Ordinary people raised up and now the people turned to Cleisthenes
• They asked him to build an empire; He came back after the exile
• He had to design a revolutionary form of government 
• He had a meeting place called the agora where they had meetings and talked
• He created the simple vote; Black pebble & White pebble 
• They would gather of 9 days to talk about everything: war, taxes, roads, etc
• Anyone could talk and share their opinion except ... women
• They all were the government; It was a system of government that would transform everything
• A new generation would take up his legacy
• They had to defend their state from Persia 
• 490 B.C Pheidippides made one the biggest athletic achievements in history
• He home was going against the Persian's
• Athens was gaining power and the Persian's felt threatened
• Marathon: 26 miles from Athens, where the Persians landed
• The Persians were outnumbered 2 to 1
• People would just keep fighting and going
• They had to just keep pushing forward and moving your feet
• Hoplites: small group of soldiers
• Pheidippides ran 140 miles in just 2 days
• His quest ran in failer
• His fellow Athenians had to fight in hope
• He ran from Athens to Sparta to get help 
• The Spartans said no; they said it wasn;t their power
• The Persians had scattered
• 6000 Persians were killed in just 1 day
• Athens had made it through and brought a victory 
• Themistocles 

Movie Redo

Today in class we rewatched the movie we watch when Mr.Schick missed class. We are taking more notes this time. We are finding more information this time.

   508 B.C in Athens pandemonium ruled the streets. The people turned on their rulers. One man looked on, an Athenian noble, Cleisthenes. He was brought up as a leader. He was an aristocrat. He would see that these people should have freedom. He would set his fellow Greeks to an empire. 570 B.C he was born around. He was taught that he was an aristocrat. Athens was a little place. It was located in Greece (Helis). It wasn't a city you'd think would become an empire. It was built around an acropolis. Reading and writing was rare and life was tough. Life expectancy was less than 15 years. Athens had aristocrats holding power. The country was in the hands of a few people. The people had no share in anything. The people worked so hard for little money. Athens was mountainous and didn't have the unite. Greece was divided into city states each different. Athens was on of the little nations. Sparta had militay power. They were brought up to be a military man and lived away from their family. They had few of their own possessions. They conquered more than 4,000 sq miles around them. This was the world of Clesithenes childhood. He was fired be a dream. Their tales and story inspired him. Homer  Iliad.& Odyssey were two major stories. These were the stories of their people. They tell of battles and struggles. The poems were called epics. Images of heroes are all over Greek art. Wanted to seize power and victory for himself and become a real life hero. He was not the only one that took the tales to heart. Pisistratus was Clesithenes brother in law. He took power of Athens and brought Athenia with him. He was intelligent and knew he had to find allies. He reduced taxes and let people build up their farms. He began to transform Athens. He wants to get the support from the fellow Greeks. Greece had Persian Empire, Egypt and Italy around them. Athenians found their wealth on the rises. The vase was a big discover. Pottery makers didn't have much respect. They were at the lowest of the low. It wasn't a highly respected. The began to make a whole different style of painting on them. They are now with millions. Cleisthenes had seen how Athens changed. It was now a whole economic power. Pisistratus died 527 B.C & thats when Hippias took power. It was his son. His brother was murdered and killed the murders and tortued one of the wives. 514 B.C his brother died. Hippias started messing things up. He was paranoid and felt threatened. He father had a reason to come in power and he didn't. Cleisthenes tried to over throw Hippias. He was banished from Athens forever when he was over thrown. Cleisthenes was now one of the most powerful men.

• 508 B.C in Athens pandemonium ruled the streets
• Cleisthenes was brought up as a leader and an aristocrat.
•  570 B.C he was born around 
• Athens was located in Greece (Helis)
• It was built around an acropolis. 
• Reading and writing was rare and life was tough. 
• Life expectancy was less than 15 years. 
•  Sparta had militay power
• Sparta conquered more than 4,000 sq miles around them.
• Iliad is about the Trojan war. 
• Odyssey was about Odeyous 
• The poems were called epics
• Tyrant: one person who seized power and ruled. Isn't always bad. 
• Athenia patriant God of Athens. 
•  Pisistratus brother in law of Cleisthenes
• Gave people loans & cut taxes. He needed allies. 
• Vase invention. Used to ship things in it. 
• Hippas was brought into power after the death of Pisistratus 
• 527 B.C Pisistratus died.  Hippieas, his son took over.
• 514 B.C his brother was murdered and killed the murders and tortured one of the wives. 
• Cleisthenes wanted to throw him out of power
• He succeeded and banished Hippas
• They ostrosized and kicked out Hippias. 
• Cleisthenes was now a hero to all