April 29th blog

Today in West. Civ we discussed our projects within our groups and finalized our ideas for our projects. I will be making a song and video with my group, although our rap group is yet to be named we promise an amazing name!

Baltimore Riot Day- April 28th

Today in Western Civ, we discussed the Baltimore Riots of 2015. We had a detailed discussioin of our opinions and different topics related to it
(including this mom. GO MOM!)


There was lots of destruction, injuries, but thank god no one was hurt

April 23rd blog; Song review

Today in West Civ we reviews the lyrics to the song by Chi Cago with a thorough explanation by lookalike Mr. Schick.

We went over the first couple lines, learning about how Rome is located near the Tigris river, but not on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Also, Rome drained a swamp to build their city.

Tarquin the Proud was the last of the Roman kings due to a series of an unfortunate series of events that caused the people to drive him out of Rome.

Also,  we learned about how many different forms of government Romans combined to make their new government, and how the wealthy people usually rule it

First Class Back- April 14th

Today in class we reviewed the test which we took before Spring break. I got a 94% on the test which continues my streak of never receiving below a B on a test in this class.

The original brainchild- ???

March25th blog... uh, yeah

Mythology

• Polytheistic
• Had a god for each thing
• fully developed relgion around 700 BCE
• Gods resembled humans due to their human characteristics 
• The twelve olympians are the most important gods

1. Zeus- God of sky and thunder; king of the gods
2. Poseidon- God of the Sea
3. Athena- Guardian of Athens, prayed to for wisdom, daughter of zeus
4. Aphrodite- Goddess of love and beauty
5. Hero- Goddess of marriage, protector of women
6. Demeter- Goddess of agriculture, fertility, law and the harvest
7. Apollo- God of sun, light, music, and the prophecy
8. Artemis- Goddess of the hunt, forest, hills, moon and archery
9. Ares- God of war; represented as the unpleasant side of death
10. Hermes- God of trade, eloquence, messenger of the  Gods
11. Hephaestus- God of fire and metal working
12. Hestia- basically what mr shick did on this slide (no offense mr schick 
13. Dionysus- God of fertility and wine
14. Hades- God of wealth and ruler of the underworld

Athenian government

Aristocracy

• A form of government where the upper class are the select rulers
• Economic and political power were a premium
• Children inherited power in artistocracy
• Aristocrats often made harsh laws towards the classes below them
• Solon broke this law, but he was soon receeded when he became older

Tyranny

• Rose to popularity around 600 BC
• Middle class people wanted to make a change often during a tyranny
• Military leaders aided these middle class people
• Citizens gave new tyrants gifts
• Tyrants ruled for short periods of time
• Tyrants weren't necesarilly brutes or mean, they just made laws that bettered themselves.

Philosphy

Socrates

• Looked to logic and science instead of Gods
• Socratical method challeneged Greek thinking
• Charged with impiety and corruption of youth
• Socrates was a smart guy, at his trial he confessed to his crimes and demanded praise instead of condemnment  (basicallt socrates below, or at least what i imagined)

Plato

• Plato was one of Socrates' students
• Socrates' ideas are known today mainly because of Plato's writing
• His most important book is the Republic

Artistotle

• Helped foster the idea of intellectual destination
• Focused on research (Lyceum)
• He wanted all knowledge accessible to man in one place

That was one long blog

The king of Swaziland from 1977 wishes you luck on your trip

Tyrants (the greek version)

• Isagoras and Cleisthenes were trying to take over at the same time
• Isagoras had support from aristocrats and Sparta
• Cleisthenes had support from Athens

• Isagoras took power
• Cleisthenes is ostracized from Athens
• Athens revolted against Isagoras and drove him out in 508 BCE

• Cleisthenes -  an artistocrat
• Very rich
• Recognized that good things can come from the people

Aristocrat & arist o cracee

Greek government

Transformation of government
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• In seventh and sixth BCE, artistocrats ruled Greece's government
• This is common, people with more riches traditionally held more power in government

Aristocracy

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• ruled by aristocrats (mind=blown)
• Aristocrats attended symposiums which were essentially parties where the aristocrats discussed politics
• no women, middle class people, slaves allowed. and occasionally an aristocrats

Tyrants seize control

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• Sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites and take power
• tyrant- someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
• modern meaning of tyrant- an abusive or oppressive leader
• Greek meaning of tyranr- someone who simply seizes power usually with upper class soldiers  called hoplites
• Hippias was a tyrant who ruled for 17 years and became harsh when his brother was murdered
• He became ostracized from Athens