5/30/13

Exam Review

Guns, Germs, and Steel

• what did the Papua new Guineans eat...Sago
• what was wrong with sago...it goes bad very quickly and it is not very nutritious
• What was Jared Diamond's theory on the advancement of civilization...geographic luck
• how many domesticated animals were there..14...none of these animals lived in Papua New Guinea

Ancient Civilizations

• First successful civilization...Mesopotamia
• What are the two main rivers...Tigris and Euphrates
• Where is it now...Middle East
• What was the difference between history and prehistory...things started to be written down in prehistory
• The Sumerians...wrote in cuneiform
• When you take dry land and water it...irrigation
• First written laws...laws of Hammurabi

Egypt

• What was life surrounded on...the Nile River
• What was rare about the Nile..it flowed south to north
• What was the part of the Nile that had the richest soil...the Delta
• What were the king of Egypt known as..Pharaohs
• What were the Egyptian known for building... pyramids
• When were the most pyramids built...2500 BC (4,500 years ago)
• What did slaves do...served the wealthy

Greece

• Tarquin the Proud...tyrant
• What were some differences between Athens and Sparta...Athens had a navy: triremes and Sparta had an army on land
• Who made the decision to build 200 triremes...Themistocles
• What was the capital of Greece...Athens
• What was Athens famous for...the Parthenon
• Pericles ruled when the Parthenon was built
• What was the organization of city states who were in it to protect themselves... the Delian league
• Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey...Homer
• What was the Iliad about...the Trojan war
• What was the Odyssey about...a war hero who is trying to get home and running into all of these spectacular beings 
• The people that predicted what was going to happen in the future...the Oracle
• The unexamined life is not worth living...Socrates
• Alexander the Great was 20 when he became king
• Who was Alexander's father...Philip II
• Philip II was 32 when he died
• Who was Alexander the Great's mother...Olympias 

Rome(30 questions)
Middle Ages (125)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

5/29/13

We took a test today. I think I did very well.

5/24/13

Feudalism- describes the governmental system and the relationship between landowners and warriors

Feudal compact- when a knight pledges his loyalty to a lord and the lord gives the knight some land

Fief- the land that is given to the knight by the lord

Vassal- the honored position the knight held

 
Knight- the “body guard” of the lord

Homage- a vassal paid homage to their lord- taking their hand and speaking a pledge of loyalty

Serf- they were bound to the land, forced to do back-breaking work such as the iron plow. They were also in charge of internal colonization

Barons- lords of large territories who usually paid homage to a king

Peasantry- farmers or serfs- the common people

Estates- there were three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the common people

Manor- Large plantations which were owned by a lord or a lady of the manor

Three-field-system- rotating your crops, so only two fields out of three were actually growing things. The other one was resting.

Internal colonization- when the serfs were put in charge of what to grow and when to grow it

Suburb- the area outside of the walled in city

Guild- a group that was centered around one thing, such as making weapons. People joined it to become experts and buy things from the people inside the group.

Master- the top skilled person In the guild. They would have to create a masterpiece and go through apprenticehood and journeyhood.

Journeyman- a man that was pretty much a student in a gild. He is higher than an apprentice.

Apprentice- an apprentice assisted a master in order to become a master

Masterpiece- a great work of art in whatever craft a master made in a gild

Water mill- a mill...for water

Iron plow- the awesome and amazing tool that farmers used to plow their fields

5/23/13

Today was Thursday, our long mod. We went over a feudalism power point. It was pretty interesting. Especially the iron plow. We talked about the classes and we talked about serfs. I found the relationship between a knight and a lord interesting. A knight pledged their allegiance to a lord, serving him until he died or retired. The knight's land would then go to his son or in some special cases, daughters. We talked about the peasantry who were the common people such as serfs and farmer. They didn't have very great lives but they were at least a step up from slaves. 

5/22/13

Today was our first class in the week. Monday was freshmen retreat which was really fun and interesting. On Tuesday we do not have class. So today we got out pop quizzes back. I got an 80, so I got one wrong out of five. I was pretty happy about that. The quiz asked questions like who started out in Gaul and is present day France...the Franks. Who was the tribe thats name represented destruction...vandals (vandalism). There was a map, the answer to that question was the Huns, that is the one I got wrong. The group that conquered Rome and took over Spain were the Visigoths. The group that settled in Britain were the Angles and the Saxons. I think I just about covered it!

5/17/13

My Notes
After Rome (500-700)
Germanic Kingdoms of Europe
-Germanic barbarians...warlords and their families who assimilated into Roman culture because the "nobles" or aristocrats of medieval Europe
-The Angles and the Saxons (from Denmark and northwestern Germany) invaded Britain and assimilated the native Britains
-Most of the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity in the Seventh century
-the most powerful Germanic tribe was the Franks
- but the real power lay with the "mayor of the palace" who were royal officials and nobles themselves
Eastern Empire
-from Eastern Empire to "Byzantium"
-the Eastern Roman Empire continued on while the west was now divided up by barbarian tribes
-when the emperor Justinian came to power in 527, he decided the reunite the entire Roman Empire by reconquering the western territories
-Justinian succeeded for a while but they were eventually overwhelmed
Its a Christian Empire Now
-Greek Byzantine emperors saw themselves as Roman Emperors and the needs of the Christian Church
-Byzantine preserved Greco-Roman architecture, philosophy ad writing despite much of it being non-Christian
-Justinian built the massive domed Hagia Sophia-the biggest church ever

5/16/13

I am having technical difficulties uploading my power point. I will ask Mr. Schick about it tomorrow.

5/17/13

Today we took a test. I think I did pretty well. I'll pray on it.

Questions for today - 5/13/13

1. How many edicts did Diocletian make?  Four
2. Who is the apostle who is responsible for the spread of Christianity? Paul
3. What is significant about Constantine's family? His family was catholic.
4. What is an edict? An official order
5. What was Diocletian's opinion on Christianity? He despised them.
6. What experience did Constantine have with Jesus? He saw the P with the X slashed through it in the sky.
7. Sum up what the four Edicts were about? They all had to do with punishing Christians
8. What was the Edict of Milan? Constantine gave Christians all of their rights back and he gave them land and property. "You can not persecute according to religion"

Important notes mentioned today

• How long did the Pax Romana last- 207 years
• Diocletian was the first emperor to willingly step down and hand off his power to someone else

5/7/13

Today is our long mod in Western Civ. So far we have changed seats and went over a power point. Mr. Schick sent us off on our own to answers three questions: What was Constantine's connection to Christianity? What did Constantine too to change the empire? And we have have to research how Diocletian persecuted the Christians. Here are my answers...
Constantine's connection to Christians: His family was Christian.
Diocletian: He sacrificed Christians to the gods and he completely took away their rights and tried to kill them all.
Constantine's recon structure : Instead of persecuting the Christians he gave them political and social legitimacy in the Roman Empire.

5/7/13

Today was Wednesday so usually the classes go by really slow, but they went by pretty quickly. Well anyway we got our tests back and I got a 90%. After we went over that we went over a power point Mr. Schick put together about Jesus and the start of Christianity and the life of Paul. Honestly I already know all of this because I have went to Catholic school my whole life so it is all really easy. We took a pop quiz; 5 questions long and multiple choice. I got a 5 out of 5, it was pretty easy. That's really all that happened this class, it wasn't a lot but we got really into the power point and we had a few questions about the test we previously took. Tomorrow we are learning about Diocletian and Constantine.

5/8/13

Today in class we talked about Diocletian and Constantine. I got up there and lectured about Constantine and how he hated Christianity and what he did to them. I switched off with Abby who talked about the four edicts he created. All of the edicts were made to punish, persecute, or humiliate the Christians. We even talked about how Diocletian punished this one Christian. First they whipped him, then they poured salt and vinegar in his wounds, and then they slowly burned him alive. Instead of looking at this with horror and fright, the Christians became more determined. Holding these idols that died for Christ as inspirations, giving them the name of martyrs. Then we talked about Constantine, who created the Edict of Milan. The Edict of Milan gave all the Christians back their land and their rights. It stated that people could not be persecuted because of their religion. Constantine is held as a saint in the Catholic church.

5/6/13

Today we handed in our essays. Lexie and I finished with 2,067 words. I am really proud! We really busted our butts and put a lot of effort and time into it. I am praying we get a good grade. After we handed that in we took the test. I am estimating I got 2 wrong, maybe 3. I think I did really well. I studied the power point for seriously, like an hour. I even read some of the textbook but I focused mainly on the power point. After I turned my test in we were supposed to read but I had to fix my blog because it finally started working again so I did that. I read outside when I got home. LO2 was about Christianity. It was funny to see the the historical side of Jesus and what the facts say. It seemed to me that most of the time they were on Christ's side.

4/3/13

Today Mr. Schick announced we were writing a 500 word essay for Pax Romana. We broke up into groups of two. Lexi and I split up the pages equally. We each have 9 pages. Lexi has LO1, LO2, and LO3 and I have LO4 and LO5. I got 121 words done in class and so far it is pretty good. We are aiming to write a thousand words each. Mr. Schick also announced we are having a test on Monday on the powerpoint he made. I think I will do well. The material is interesting and I am really into it, so we will see how it goes.

5/2/13

Today we finished watching the videos about Tiberius. I think it was really wrong of the senate to have killed him. Even though the power slightly got to his head I don't think he wanted to be kind and dictator. He pretty much wanted what Julius Ceasar did in the future. They both pretty much died for the same reasons. Tiberius was killed because the Senate thought he wanted to be king, and JC died because he declared he was Dictator for life. The only difference is Tiberius didn't actually want to be king. After talking about that we talked about Gauis Gracchus, Tiberius's brother. He tried to follow through with his brother's plans but the senate put a bounty, literally on his head. Whoever brought the head of Gauis would be payed in gold by the weight of how much the head weighed. The person that brought the head in had taken out Gauis's head and filled it with led I think, so he received no reward for trying to cheat.

5/1/13

Today I was not in school because I was sick.  

4/29/13

Today we watched the videos about Tiberius. I watched the first one at home over the weekend so I was already familiar with some of it. The videos showed how Tiberius was very different from most leaders. He took more of an interest in the plebians. He showed that he cared when his men knocked over some ladies cart and he made them repair it and give her and her son food and water. We met Octavius too. He owned latifundia and he admitted to taking the woman’s land that Tiberius had previously met and he also admitted to taking tons of other people’s lands. Tiberius stormed out in outrage and that is where we left off. Tomorrow we don’t have class so we won’t see the video again till Wednesday.

4/26/13

Today did not go well…at all. I don’t think I have ever gotten such a bad grade. I really don’t know what I am doing wrong. I study pretty hard for these tests but most of the time I either just do alright or I do well. I am really disappointed. After I handed in the test I remember realizing that I had gotten like 3 wrongs, and the 3 that I got wrong were really stupid mistakes. I am so mad! The next test I am going to do a lot better though, I will take a lot more notes and I will study a lot harder. I think I have kinda just been floating by in Western Civ but I am going to take it more seriously from now on. MARK MY WORDS.

4/25/13

Today is Thursday so today was our long mod. We had our quest today and I am really scared to see what I got. I don’t think I did very well to be honest. It’s weird though because I always pay attention in class and I always take a ton of notes but when I get to the test it’s like I forget everything! I mean most of the stuff is really interesting but I also get really bored in some of it so I guess that just kinda makes it hard to study. I think I need to study from the textbook more though, not just my notes. I don’t know, maybe that is my problem. Well I am crossing my fingers for a passing grade. I’ll tell you how it goes tomorrow.

I HAD TROUBLE WITH MY BLOG, REMEMBER?

Just a reminder that all the above blogs are late but you said that was okay because I showed you all of these. Here they are^^^^^^