Mr. Darrington

Today in class Devin went over our notes again for mr schick. He wanted to see how he did and everything but it was pretty much just looking at the same thing twice. We went over just about all of class with mr schick jumping in occasionally. My computer is in the tech lab so I couldn't look directly off of my notes but I just sat there and listened. 

The Odyessy

Today in class we were going over the Athenians and Spartans and how they were so different. Then we started getting into this guy named Homer who wrote these "poems" which were like over 11,000 lines or something. Then he started talking about this guy named odyesse who was in the odyessy. Then he started telling us all of these stories about him and I thought the stories were really interesting. I really liked the one about the cyclops and how they found out how to get away from him and I thought it was really interesting.

LO3- Citizens and Communities: The Greek City-States

•  Tribal communities of the Dark Ages began to develop into city-states
•  Polis - Social and political development of the Greek city-state
•  City-states were small usually consisting of a small town and a few square miles of countryside surrounding it
•  Athens and Sparta which were no bigger then a few U.S. counties were giants compared to the City-States
•  The towns were usually built around hills so the Acropolis would stand atop the hill
•  Acropolis - The high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town
•  Fortresses and Temples were a huge part of the City-States
•  The City-states fought among each other
•  Most important civic activity was the worship on the go or goddess on which they depended on
•  The notion on citizen participation seems to have originated partly in geography
•  Hoplite - A heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece
•  Phalanx - a unit of several hundred hoplites, who closed ranks by joining shields when approaching the enemy
• Monarchy - A state in which supreme power is held by a single, usually hereditary ruler (a monarch)
• Oligarchy - A state in which supreme power is held by a small group
• Triremes - Massive fighting vessels with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships
• Tyranny - Rule by a self proclaimed dictator
• Democracy - In ancient Greece, a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making
• The Spartans were the descendants of Greeks who had conquered part of the southern mainland, the territory of Laconia
• By 8th century B.C., they were a minority of landholders
• Helots - Noncitizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city-state of Sparta
• As the Spartans moved west and conquered they became outnumbered 10-1 by noncitizens
• How the Spartans developed their government is unknown
• Girls were required to participate in drills and exercises that were designed to develop them into healthy, child bearing women
• They lived relatively free and active lives
• The freedom of Spartan women aroused both admiration and disapproval among the other Greeks
• To the Athenians, Spartan life was not worth living
• Athens was a warlike community
• Athens eventually grew to become the wealthiest and one of the most powerful of Greek city-states
• The Spartans descended from the Greeks
• Cultural Isolation was when they stayed with one culture 
• Spartans wanted there citizens to be elite 
• Spartan kids started military training when they were 7 and married when they were 20
• Spartans had little contact with foreigners
• The 6th century the Persians conqeured a huge area
• Ostricism is the banishment of a citizen for 10 years
• Aliens were the people who were not from greece who traveled there

Audition for Subs!!

Today in class we reviews our notes we posted to our blogs a couple of days ago. First we talked about how he is not going to be here on Monday and we are going to have a sub. Then he said he was going to have one of us sub for the last 15 minutes of class on Monday. Then he started having kids go up to see who is going to sub and he had us review what we posted to our blog on the Greek barbarians. There were 3 people that went up and one of then was me and I think I gt the job. Really after me it was just repeating notes because me and the 2 other people had some similar notes so then with like 10 minutes left in class he took over and pretty much did the same thing we did but with better notes. That was pretty much all we did in class today .

Reviewing our test

Today in class we got our tests back and I honestly was surprised with my score. I thought I had done a lot better than I actually did And I was pretty disappointed. But I have to put that test behind me and keep going. I actually thought that I was the only one who did bad but I'm really not, there were only 2 questions that everybody got right and that really surprised me. The test wasn't long so if you got more than 3 wrong you did bad, I got six wrong. Our class was actually gettin pretty loud and hectic and I was just sitting in the back just looking over it and it was pretty funny how much people were talking. A few kids in our class were arguing about the questions and I thought that was really funny because even though they were wrong they wanted to still argue with him. Overall today was a loud and hectic day in mr a hicks class.

Chapter 3, LO-1 notes

• Greek-city states were the first to practice citizen participation in government
• the city-states also traded and colonized along the Mediterranean Sea
• after 500 BC it enabled them to preserve their independence against the kings of Persia
• over 3,000 years up to the Persian Empire, civilization had spread from its Sumerian and Egyptian homelands to right across from southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa
• 4000 BC farming and village life had spread throughout the continent
• by 3500 BC there were peoples in western Europe who could construct ceremonial monuments
• archeologists have found traces of them in the soil
• Stonehenge was a huge open- air monument built by a prosperous farming and trading people wets of England
• was built in 2000 BC
• 2500 BC was when Indo European Peoples moved into Europe
• European peoples had traditionally worshipped that turned to Gods of fatherhood and thunder
• when a leading warrior died all his belongings would go with him in his grave
• the warriors wife would be buried next to him
• tribes formed loose alliances under warrior kings or queens and together they would battle comrades
• tribal groupings fought for metals, slaves, and other items that brought prestige the their possessors
• these groups were mostly temporary
• people who spoke Indo-European were most likely skilled in many things
• barbarians was from the original word barbaros meaning non-Greek

Test Day!!

Today in class we took a test, i was actually pretty confident with my test. I think i did a pretty good job, i dont think i got an 100% but i definitely passed with like a 80 or 85. There were a few questions that were confusing to me but i thought i knew most of the questions and i was confident with my answers. It was funny because before we took it he said that last year he gave this test out on January 27th or something like thats like 2 1/2 weeks earlier than when we took it today. It is suprising how much snow can effect your school days. Then the crazy thing is that were supposed to get more snow tonight and tommorow! I love the snow especially when we dont have school because i honestly prefer the cyber school work better. I am pretty excited to see what my grade is.

Short Answers

Short Answer A:  Name and describe three technological innovations or inventions of the ancient Egyptians?
Ancient Egyptians became popular for there famous irrigation of the Nile. Shipbuilding was another invention that helped them advancing trade along the Nile. Then paper, medicine, and such advanced structures were part of that

Short Answer B:  Describe three important features of the Egyptian pyramids?

The pyramid is guessed to have about 2,300,000 blocks weighing from 2-30 tons each with some of them weighing as much as 70 tons. Nowadays, those blocks look beat up and destroyed. Even though when they were first built they were marble. Through time the marble was destroyed by many different factors. Each one of the stones was about 100 inches thick and weighing about 15 tons each.

Essays'

ESSAY A: Egypt's social hierarchy was very organized and put together. You could see how high up they were based on their clothing. The lowest people in Ancient Egypt were the slaves and servants. They helped the wealthy with chores. Next was the farmers. The farmers raised wheat, barley, onions, and cattle. The Nile had a big impact on the farmers, they used the Nile to help get fertile land for their crops.

 Then the artisans which were the people who did arts and crafts. They would help with building statues and reliefs showing things in the afterlife. Egypt's statues are big remarkable structures that would require a lot of time and effort, like the great sphinx. Higher than the artisans were merchants who were in charge of money and currensy. Later over the years coinage came about. The use of coins changed Egypt a lot and mostly the use of trade. The scribes wrote scrolls and kept records of their history and told stories, they wrote hieroglyphs.

The soldiers were really high in ranking of Ancient Egypt. They would hunt and do other jobs for the city. The soldiers had wooden weapons with bronze tips and rode in chariots. Above them were priests who were actually a huge part of society back then. Last were the pharaohs (AKA "Lord of the two lands" and "high priests of every temple"), They were the religious and political leaders. They were the most powerful man on earth to there city .

ESSAY B:  Upper Egypt was a 5000 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile. Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile could give them water for drinking, irrigation, bathing, and transportation. The Egyptians created sail boats to go with the Nile for easy transportation, the sails were created so that they could go where they wanted to
The Nile would provide and help the Egyptians with the gain of food.

The Nile always seemed to flood and change at the right times and the Egyptians benefited from it. Every July it floods and in October it would leave behind rich soil. The Egyptians would use the rich soil  to plant crops.

 Controlling the Nile required technological breakthroughs in irrigation. The Nile River flows south to north and has a delta at the top. The delta is a broad and marshy triangular area of fertile silt. The river eventually flowed into the Mediterranean sea.

Substitute!!!

Today in class we had a substitute so we really didn't learn anything today but we did get to review for tomorrow's test. My computer was dead so I couldn't review for the test but I got to finish all of my homework so I am pretty happy with that and just waited till I got home to do the blog and review. 

Egypt Prezi

Today in class we were shown a prezi made by Mr.Schick and i had never heard of them before but they are really cool. We talked a lot about how the Egyptians lived and how they used the Nile to their advantage. We also talked about where the people stood back then in far as power. There are quite a few types of jobs back then that wouldn't be as high of a job as now. Like the scribes were the people who wrote things down and they were a real high class back then but now they are nowhere near that. Then farmers were a real low class back then but now farmers are real important part of this society. We also talked about pyramids and the mummification process which i thought were real interesting subjects because they are the main staples Egypt. I thought that there were some really interesting subjects to this prezi today.

The Land of the Pharaohs

Today in class we talked about Egypt and the Pharaohs. I really liked this part of our unit so far because i thoguht that this part is really interesting and i thought it was really cool. I like the story behind the Pharaohs and egypt. We talked a lot about how Egypt came about and the Nile river. Then we really strted getting into the Pharaohs and what there lives are about. Pharaohs are who the people thought was a god-king, they thought he could communicate to the gods to make life better is they declared him as king. The title of Pharaoh is almost like the Britains where it is handed down through family. Then we started getting into how they all had numerous wives and some of them were even sisters! But then Mr.Schick told us they were only for running parts of the palace they weren't used for any reproduction. That was for the non-related wives to do. Most Pharaohs had many children from different wives, then we kinda started to get off track and with about 5 minutes left Mr.Schick decided to end class and we just sat and talked the rest of the time we had.

LO-3 Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

-During the Neolithic Age, the people of the Nile had moved toward civilization
- Egypt stretches along the lower part of the Nile river
- The Nile played a part to Egypt similar to Tigris and Euphrates did with Mesopatamia
- Pharaoh- a name derived from the Egyptian word for "palace", which they used to mean "the king" in the same way that the white house is today used to mean "the president"
- Egyptians thought that Pharaohs were given power by the gods.
- The pharaohs mother and wife also had a touch of "divinity"
- Many Egyptian deitites were originally made in the form of animals
- The egyptians were known for there huge pyramids and temples that they built that are still intact today
- Pyramid- a massive structure with sloping sides taht met at an Apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt
- After awhile the pyramid building phase of egypt slowly died down and not many were constructed
- Shortly after pyramids started to fade temples started to emerge and that became the new thing
- The last temple in Egypt was built shortly after 250 B.C.
- After the "new kingdom' came around in Egypt they became a target for invaders in Africa
-Egypt was not really the big dog anymore after all of the other civilizations around them started to catch up to them and they found themselves close to the bottom of the totum pole
- Egypt was in charge for a long time in the Middle East

Notes on Prehistory - Civilization

- Prehistory to Civilization

3000 - 1200 B.C.
The temple of Amon- worlds largest religious building made in 1600 B.C.
prehistory- the period before history was recorded through written documents
before civilization was the prehistoric era
Paleolithic- old stone age
Hunting and gathering way of life in the paleolithic age
Neolithic age - when metals replaced stone
cave paintings
Agricultural revolution also called the Neolithic revolution
agricultural revolution- the shift from hunting and gathering food to a more settled way of life based on farming
several things contributed to the beginning of agriculture new environmental conditions, the development of techniques for domesticating plants, the development of techniques for domesticating animals
polytheism- the belief of many gods and goddesses
Mesopotamia- 3500 B.C.