Movie and stories

Today in Western Civ we were being rewarded I guess for being less obnoxious all the time. So we got to watch a video about some crazy guy in Rome. It took forever for the video to load so while we waited Mr. Schick told us about setting children on fire and insulting old ladies. Erica gave me her last piece of gum <33 We will probably take a test on Rome on Friday?? But probably not because we haven't reviewed or anything and we don't have class on Thursday. Happy Wednesday

Romeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

• When Caesar gets killed, Rome changes from a republic to an empire with Augustus in charge
• Pax Romana- a period of peace 
• He built roads, aqueducts 
• Set up civil service to take care of the roads, the grain supply, and the postal service
• Augustus dies at the age of 76 in 14 AD and passes his power to Tiberius 
• Jesus was a Roman citizen and a practicing Jew
• He began his ministry at the age of 30 preaching to the poor in the empire and reaching out to outsiders like women who didn't have many rights. 
• Roman's in power were worried about Jesus planning an overthrow of the government 
• Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion
• Paul was instrumental  in telling the world about Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and message  

Some More Rome

• Proletarians- the lowest class of Roman citizens 
• The character of the Roman army began to change. Instead of the farmer-soldiers of old, it was now landless proletarians who were being drafted. The soldiers were now "semi-professionals" who fought just so they could better themselves through pay, loot, promotion, and land or money to provide for them when they were discharged. 
• Government by supreme warlords was bound to be brief and unstable- unless one of them could turn military dictatorship into legitimate power.
• Julius Caesar came from an old patrician family that had come down in the world and entered the cities politics as a young man determined to regain the power of his ancestors- very ambitious 
• in social struggles he often sided with poorer citizens
• First Triumvirate 
• Crassus- army general
• Pompey- richest guy in the world
• Julius Caesar
• Caesar won an appointemen as proconsul of Gaul (superrrrrrrrrrrrr big) 
• In eight years, Caesar conquered Gaul and parts of Britain and Germany. By 50 BC most of western Europe was under Roman rule, and Caesar had built an army personally devoted to himself. 
• Rubicon
• When Caesar returned to Rome he made himself supreme ruler of the republic, he appointed himself tribune, supreme pontiff, consul, and dictator for a ten year term  

presentation day no. 3

Friday was the last day for presentations. Alexa's was awesome. There was food. Laura had cheap honey. Ryan ate 6 pieces of toast...................... happy weekend

presentation day no. 2

These presentation days are incredibly boring. I presented and it was all good I guess. Delaney had a super awesome project anddddddd yahh. So I think you said something about homework but you never posted anything soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo................ ok.

presentation day no.1

Today in western civ it was like super boring because everybody was presenting and yeah. Arri was being stupid and couldn't get his computer to work so he wasted like 4 hours yelling at life. I think I was supposed to present today but since Arri's stupid  we didn't have enough time. I guess I'll present tomorrow. Erica's group had food but I couldn't try it because it had eggs in it. bummer.

quest

Today in Western Civ we took quest on Rome. The last class did super bad and their grade average was like a D so I probbbabbllyyyy didn't as well as I thought I did. I finished pretty early but still, you know how these things go. I have't really started on my project yet, all I've done is think of the idea and got some supplies. I'll probably do most of the work early next week. So I'm super excited right now because right after school I'm driving down to Tyson's Corner for a dance convention and I'll be there all weekend and my team competes on Saturday. I'm staying in a hotel which makes me happy because hotels make me feel all rich and important. So in 4 hours and 37 minutes it will be spring breakkkkkkkkkkk So happy Easter :)

Notes and test and project oh my

Today we started class talking about the upcoming quiz/ test/ tiz/ quest. We reviewed a crap load of questions and then talked about the Roman military so here's some notes
Roman Legion- 5,000 people
Infantry- on foot
Cavalry- On horse/ anteater/ dinosaur
Century- a group of 80 (not 100, weird right?)
1st Punic war fought over Sicily- Romans won
2nd Punic war (feat. Hannibal- Carthaginian general) Carthage attempts at revenge but Roman win
3rd Punic war- Romans want to eliminate Carthaginian threat. They destroy the land and salted fields so the couldn't grow anything
Carthage located in North West Africa

After we that we talked about the project and I got kinda stressed because I haven't really figured out hat to doooo but hopefuuly I'll have it figured out by tonight

Punic warssssssssssss

Today in Western Civ we watched a movie video thing about the Punic wars. It was a cute little animation thing but the narrator talked like w a y too fast. I think we have a test on it Friday....... So I changed my mind for what I am doing for this stupid project thing and I'm going to show how Roman citizens lived during this time. I'll do a power point with the different ranks of people on each slide. I was going to build a Colosseum but I don't know how I would even do that and I'm not anywhere near artistic enough.

More Notes on Rome- the Punic Wars

When men were away at war, the rich would offer money to the women for the farm/family business/ whatever. The Gracchus brothers were two men who were elected into the assembly who tried to help the poor by asking the rich to give the people their land back. They got the law passed to the senate before they were killed, and the law was overturned.
Latifundia (I think that's how you spell it)- the big estates the rich accumulated

Rome had all of Italy south of the River Po. The Carthaginians' interest in Sicily brought them into conflict with Rome. The Punic wars lasted between 264 and 146 BC in three rounds. In the first round, Rome forced Carthage out of Sicily but the North African city kept the rest of its empire. In the second round, Hannibal, a Carthaginian general invaded Italy but lost due to their dwindling numbers. Rome Provoked a third war due to fear of revival, and the Senate ordered that the land be leveled and the people be sold to slavery.

Rome notes

• The Romans not only imitated Greek civilization but also improved it; at least as far as government, warfare, and architecture 
• Indo- European immigrants arrive in a Mediterranean land with farming resources that were similar to those of Greece 
• The Indo-European settlers formed various tribal groups, among them the Latin people of central Italy near the mouth of the Tiber River 
• The Etruscans were non-Indo-European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere to the east about the ninth century BC
• The Greek city-states began to plant colonies in Southern Italy as early as the eighth century BC
• The king was advised by a council of elders called the Senate (meaning "old man" in Latin) 
• Patricians (men with fathers) that is fathers who already belong in a leading family. When a king died, the Senate chooses his successor from his own members. 
• Tarquin the Proud ruled from 535-509 BC
• In 509 BC when the poeple overruled Tarquin, monarchy was abolished replaced with the republic- a mixture of Greek and oligarchy  
• Plebians were common people 
• Two consuls were elected to share power previously held by the king. The two of them could veto each other guaranteeing against a revival of monarchy 

Rome Notes

• Latins were the first to settle in ancient Rome
• People in Rome felt they were destined to do something amazing because they lived in the middle of the middle of the earth- they were very ambitions 
• They drained a swamp into the River Tiber so they could settle on that land
• Tarquin the Proud was a harsh king who the people over threw 
• With out the burden of the king, the people made a new government. It had three different governments (democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy) rolled into one, called a republic 
• plebeian- common person
• patricians- rich people; aristocrats 
• consuls- two people with the most power who could veto each other

Ayyee

Todayyy Mr. Schick sang a kick butt song about Rome. After that we talked about our upcoming projects on Rome. I wassssss going to work with Pia but Teter is a loser and wont let his class work with other classes so I'll just have to go it aloneee
So I'm not really sure what I'm going to for this thing but I'm thinking either the map showing the expansion of Rome or recreate authentic clothing.
But class was super boring today ): so there's not much to sayyyyyy
Um, my brother Kevin started to hike the Appalachian Trail starting in Georgia and ending in Maine so let's talk about that. He says he's going to hike the whole thing but only 1 in 4 thru hikers actually complete the trail. The AT is one of the longest marked foot paths like ever measuring over 2,000 miles long (according to: http://www.appalachiantrail.org/about-the-trail) They say that up to 3 million people wander these woods every year. The thing I find awsomest is the trail names hikers usually adopt on the trail. It seems like almost getting a new identity, like the trail can change you. I can't wait to see what nick names Kevin picks up along the way.
They say it takes about 6 months to complete the trail, but every hiker is different. Another cool fact I got from this website is "The total elevation gain of hiking the entire A.T. is equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest 16 times." 
It's probably like the best human experience out there, and I hope to one day do something as awesome as this.