03/30/15 Class

I was not in class today because the softball game.

03/27/15 Class

Today during our WestCiv class we still worked on our paper, I already got my part done that about Plato, but I still have to worked with Christina to finished our conclusion.

03/26/15 Class

Today is the fist day that Mr. Schick left. We work on our paper very hard and hopefully we can finished it tomorrow.

23/03/15 Class

Today's class Mr. Schick go through the details about the paper that we have to write before April 1st. And we will also have a test on that day. SO we have to watch the video either during this time.

03/20 Class

Today's class all of us did the presentation of the powerpoint that we did. I did take notes and I think all of us really did a good job on this project. But we did not finished our presentation during the class.

(Ancient) Greece is the Word...

Next in line...

• With Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both were aristocrats) engaged in a power struggle
• Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta
• Cleisthenes had support of the majority of Athenians

Isagoras wins (but not for long)

• Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant)
• He ostracizes Cleisthenes 
• Cleisthenes'supporters - and the ordinary Athenian citizens! - revolt against Isagoras' tyranny
• They trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he fled and was banished
• 508 BCE

Cleisthenes and Democracy

• Cleisthenes - definitely a member of the elite
• Very rich
• Insulated from the “hoi polloi”
• A crafty politician

Ancient Greece continued...

Transformation of government

• During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristrocrats ran the show in most of Greece
• Rich people held much more influence in society, and held much more governmental power, than the middle class or the poor

Aristocracy (nice work if you can get it)

• Aristocracy is rule by aristocrats
• they attended symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and the company of hetaeras (courtesans) while discussing politics

an exclusive club

• no women (except the “entertanment”)
• no middle class
• certainly, no slaves
• sometimes, even certain aristocrats (who didn’t have the right connections or who fell out of favor) were excluded

Tyrants seize control

• sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites (well-armed soldiers), and set up an alternative form of gov’t called a tyranny
• tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
• modern meaning of tyrant: an abusive or oppressive ruler
• the Greek meaning of tyrant: someone who simply seized power (usually with hoplite help)

clash of the tyrants

• Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE
• his brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh
• eventually he was expelled from Athens (this is called being ostracized)
• in revenge, he began working with the Persian king Darius I, helping them invade Marathon

03/16/15 Project II

Today we continued doing our PowerPoint, because of we got a lot of done last class, so today I just fixed it and search more to make sure that I didn't put the wrong things on my slight. We are done today and then we have to practice our presentation.

03/12/15 Project I

Today in the class Mr. Schick let us continued on our project, today we had a long class and we had a lot of done. It's a good class.

03/12/15 Project

Today we started doing project, in my group here's Chris, Christina and me. Our title is 6.  Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - Three Great Philosophers. Each of us picked a person to introduced. I picked Plato.

03/11/15 POP QUIZ

At the beginning of today we go over our notes and continued talking about Greece, here's the notes that I took: 

• Homer - the storyteller
• Greek oral tradition - stories passed on by word of mouth
• Lived at the end of the Greek Dark Ages
• Composed stories of the Trojan War c. 750 - 700 BCE .
• "Homeric question" Homer may have been a mythical creation himself

And after that, we took a POP QUIZ, I was really surprised and I didn't do well on the map part.

03/09/15 Ancient Greece

Finally, we had a class today, we started talked about Ancient Greece, here's the notes that i took.

Ancient Greece is the Word

• The Worlds greatest civilization are all located on a river
• Great Civilization/Key River
• Mesopotamia – Tigris/ Euphrates River
• Egypt – The Nile
• India – Indus River
• China – Huang He River
• Ionian Sea
• Terra –earth
• Medi –medium
• Mediterranean – Middle of the Earth
• Crete is the largest island in Greece
• Greece’s Geography
• Greece is a mountainous area
• Mountains cover ¾ of Greece
• The combination of the Peninsula and the mountainous area shaped Greece’s culture
• They had many sailors and shipmakers (They lived on the sea)
• They had poor/limited natural resources, so they had to trade
• Although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only 30% is suitable for farming
• Greek diet: Grains, grapes, olives
• Arable – good for farming
• Their influence began around 2,000 BCE
• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE
• 1400 BCE – Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
• “sea people” and Dorians
• around 1200 BCE, the mysterious “sea people” began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
• Writing disappeared for 400 years

06/03/15 Plato

Cyber day again. Today we have to choose one person (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) to describe his life and his approach to philosophy, when he lived and what writings he is known for. 

• Plato was a philosopher , as well as mathematician in Classical Greece from about 427 BC to 347 BC. Plato and His teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle are called the three great Greek philosophers. His lasting themes include Platonic love is talking about Spirit of love. This kinds of love was determined to and opposite way to sex. Platonic love's value is about "The Spiritual Communication". Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and math. One of his famous dialogues is called "Republic". A story is talking about a lots of prisoners is tied up in a cave, they cannot move and only face to the white wall, and the exit of the cave is behind them. There is a fire burning and they can only saw the shadow of the white wall. Because of they cannot see anything else so they think that the shadow is the real things. Finally, a person get rid of the yoke, and escape from the cave, when he first time see the real things, he returned to the cave and tell the other prisoners the shadow is unreal. But for the other prisoners, he is stupid, they think in addition to the shadow on the wall, there is nothing else in the world. The story told us the real things is out of the cave, but the senses we can only feel is the shadow on the white wall. Plato likened to the sun of justice and truth, to emphasize that we have seen the sun is in the form of the sun, rather than substance.

05/03/15 Three Greek Building

Today we have Cyber day again, I have never seen the snow huge like that. Our work today is to find 3 Ancient Greece building.

• Propylaea, Athens - This is the structures near the temple of Hera ( the temple in the picture). The propylaea is the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi (490 BCE). The stoas were used for meeting places and storage. 

• Theatre of Delphi - The oldest  evidence of theatre dates from the late 6th century BCE, but we may assume that Greeks gathered in specified public places much earlier than that. The open-air of seats it's a smart way for the viewers to watch the religious processions and bull-leaping sports.

• Ancient Stadium, Nemea, Greece - Stadiums were named after the distance (600 ancient feet or around 180 metres) of the foot-race they originally hosted (the stade or stadion). This Stadium's constructed near natural embankments, the steps were made by row of stone or marbles for seating.

04/03/15 Class

On today's class we talked about the Cyber day work. I think that's really a good way for us to get work from the Internet, so won't have to make up our days during the eastern break or the summer holiday, and it's also convenient for our international student so that we can order our plane ticket earlier. Mr. Schick said we will have an off tomorrow and maybe Friday either. Hopefully I won't get too much work tomorrow.

Cyber Day 03/02/15

Today is a Cyber Day and we have to study the ppt that Mr. Schick posted, take notes and answer the question.
Here's my notes.

• (Ancient) Greece is the Word - An introduction to a great civilization
• The world's great civilizations are all located on rivers:
• Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates River
• Egypt - Nile River
• India - Indus Rive
• China - Huang He River

• Greece Geography
• Note the significance of Greece's location
• Describe Greece's topography
• Look at Greece's surroundings
• How would all this affect their culture? - Greece is located near a lot of mountains and waters, there's mountains in most of the parts and there's also plants in the eastern of Greece. Western Greece contains lakes and wetlands. That's would affect there culture because the located can not only good for the crops and also good for the transportation.
• What bodies of water surround Greece? - The Adriatic Sea and the Aegean Sea surround Greece. 
• What large island is to the south/southeast? - Crete
• Describe where Athens and Sparta are located relating to the sea, and to each other - They are both near the water and Athens is located higher up than Sparta