04/30/15 Class

Etruscans

• came from the north-central part of the peninsula
• metal workers, artists, architects

Greeks

• They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
•             Religious beliefs
•             Alphabet
•             Much of their art
•             Military techniques and weaponry

The Latins

• Descendants of Indo-Europeans
• Settled on the banks of the Tiber
• Situated so trading ships – but not war fleets – could navigate as far as Rome

01/29/15 Absent

I was not in class today because I went to the field trip to UMBC

04/27/15 Facts

The Circus Maximus - LINK

• The Circus Maximus was constructed in the 6th century BCE.
• Could seat 250,000 people, one quarter of Rome's population.
• It was a wooden stadiums, two fires happened in 31BC and 64 AD.
• Now it's a Marble Stadium, more than 600 meters long and 150 meters wide

Colosseum - LINK

• The Coliseum in Rome has over 80 entrances and can seat about 50,000 spectators.
• Over 500,000 people lost their lives and over a million wild animals were killed throughout the duration of the Colosseum
• The last gladiatorial fights took place in 435 AD. 

04/24/15 Class

Today we worked on our project during the class time. I decided to do a video.

04/23/15 Class

• Tarquin the Proud
• Punic Wars
• Conflict of passage and trade
• Rome won the first battle against Carthage

04/22/15 Class

City State Empire: The Roman Republic (4 of 4)

 Republic Values

• Romans had strong values and a particular connection to the gods Jupiter (Zeus), Juno (Hera), and Minerva (Athena)
• Romans believed that it was every citizens duty to participate in government and war, excluding women
• The Roman family and clan (group of related families) was paternalistic and the “family fear_ had complete control
• Married women were also revered in Rome as “matrons”

Roman Expansion (1 of 3)

 Allies and Colonies

• Rome was a military culture and made a number of improvements to the older Greek tactics which made their armies nimble and effective
• When Rome conquered a neighboring territory, they often extended Roman rights and privileges to the conquered people, absorbing them into Rome itself
• Non-Romans in Italy anxious to become citizens, incentivized to become allies of Rome

04/20/15 Ancient Rome

Rome

• Ninth Century – Etruscans move into Italy
• City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (1 of 4)
•  Italy and Its People
• Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome
• Remus and Romulus
• City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (2 of 4)
• The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People
•  Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders called the “Senate”
• C. 500 B.C., the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a “Republic”
• in the Greek City-States, the Romans would appoint a single dictator in times on war or conflict
• City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (3 of 4)
• The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People
• Eventually the plebeians gained power in the Senate by electing their own magistrates called “tribunes”
• In 450 B.C.,  the laws of Rome were codified and written into the “Twelve Tablets”
• The “mixed” government of patricians and plebeians had many of the checks and balances that modern democracies have today

04/17/15 Class

Today during class Mr. Schick told us we will start to doing in a project in the next week, the title is "Ancient Rome". Christina and I decided to do a video to introduce the Ancient Roman Monuments, and we are still thinking about to do a model or not. That's a really hard project to do because there's no example.

04/16/15 A short video

Today during class we watch a video that 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. I think its 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.

04/15/15 Class

Today during class we didn't really have somethings about WestCiv, but Mr. Schick showed us some of the Grammar and told us the importance of pay attention in our English Class.

04/13 Class

Today we went through the Test that we take on April 1st about Ancient Greece.

• Which of these is a large island of the southeast coast of Greece? - Crete 

• This is a government in which the state is ruled by the land-owning nobility. - aristocracy 

• Citizen-Soldiers who were expected to fight for their homeland were Hoplites.

04/01/15 Test

Today is the last day that we have school, we took a test about Ancient Greece. I really didn't finished watching the movie and I think I didn't do well on the test.