3/29/2019

In class today we watched other groups present their projects. We saw one on the battle of Thermopylae which was my favorite. We also saw one on the foods that were eaten in ancient Greece, the food they made was pretty good.Their was also one project about the children of ancient Athena and the children of ancient Sparta.

3/27/2019

Today on class we worked on our project. We had to film one more scene for our movie. The scene is where our main character is finally inducted into the spartan army. When we finished it we just talked in class since we had a sub and didn't have anything else to do.

2/25/2019

In class today we worked on our projects. We are making a movie for our project. It is on the life of Spartan soldiers. We worked o our speaking parts of the projects and the paper.

2/21/2019

Socrates looked to science and logic to explain how the world worked. Socratic method fostered critical thinking.Socrates was charged with impiety and corrupting of Athens youth. Plato a follower of Socrates. He wrote out Socrates teachings and his trial in The Apology. Aristotle was a student of Plato he helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great as a child.

3/19/2019

Athens had a great infantry too but nothing could compare with their navy. Their most effective weapon was the trireme. The Trireme was the fastest ship in the world at the time. It was rowed by up to 170 men on 3 levels. Could be used as a battering ram. The Greek Phalanx. Made up of close rank dense grouping warriors. Armed with long spears and inter locking shields. Soldiers would advance slowly toward the enemy until they broke through their ranks.

3/18/2019

Today in class we got into our project groups. Trent, Kyle and I are doing a movie on the life of a Spartan soldier for out project. I'm going to be the main character "the Spartan". We go through the typical life of a man in Sparta.

3/15/2019

I had a Dr's appointment and was not in class today.

3/13/2019

We had a sub today and we watched a movie.

3/12/2019

Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE. He was ostracized and started to work with the Persians to invade Athenians. After his rein Isogoras and Cleisthenes battled it out for power. Isagoras won and ostracized Cleisthenes. The people of Athens revolted and made Cleisthenes their ruler. Cleisthenes created the first democracy.

3/8/2019

Polis- Fundamental political unit made up of a city in the surrounding countryside.
Monarchy- rule by a single person.
Aristocracy- rule by a small group of noble rich landowning families.
Oligarchy- Wealthy groups who seized power.
Tyrant- Powerful individual who seized power by appealing to the common people
During the 6th and 7th centuries aristocracy controlled Greece. Athenians formed a democracy. Sparta formed a military state.

3/6/2019

Fertile land cover 1/4 of the peninsula only about 20% is arable. Greek diet consisted of grains, grapes, olives, and fish. Greek influence started around 2000 BCE. Mycenaean kings ruled Greece from 1600-1100 BCE. Trojan war took place around 1200 BCE. The Dorians moved into Greece and writing disappeared for 400 years.

3/5/2019

Mesopotamia-Tigris/Euphrates, Egypt-Nile, India-Indus, China-Huang He. Greece is located on the Mediterranean sea, covered in mountains, surrounded by the Ionian sea, Aegean sea, Adriatic sea. Greece is a mountainous peninsula, approximately 2,000 islands surround Greece. Had many specialized workers including sailors, shipbuilders, farmers, metalworkers, weavers, and potters. They had limited natural resources. It was difficult to unite the nations of Greece because of the mountains.

3/4/2019

Greece wasn't a united country it was a collection of separate lands where Greek speaking people lived. Greece consisted of a peninsula now known as Greece and around 2,000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Greeks used the Aegean sea, Ionian sea, and the Black sea. Mountains covered 3/4 of ancient Greece which made travel hard and long. Because of the mountains it made farming hard so not many people lived in Greece at a single time only around a few million lived there.