4/30/14

Today we have a break class which means we don't do anything. Basically we have a free mod to do whatever we want. Mr. Schick is awesome for this because I have homework so now I can work on my b flex. We should do this more often.

4/29/14

Octavian- AKA Caesar Augustus - they held him up almost as if he was a God (August)

• begins the Pax Romana- a period of piece and prosperity
• built roads, aqueducts(brought water to the cities)
• Set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service
• Augustus dies at age 76 in A.D. 14, and passes power to

TIBERIUS
But first, a word about Jesus. and Paul.

FROM JESUS TO CHRISTIANITY

• Jesus was a Roman citizen and a practicing Jew
• at 30, he began his ministry (A.D. 31-33), preaching to the poor (and there were lots of em) in the empire, and reaching out to the outsiders
• Statements like "my kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the Jews) nervous, and they began to plan his execution
• the governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (prompted by Jewish high priests), sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion

THE WORD SPREAD

4/28/14 notes (pages 97-101)

Gracus brothers (bros who made the law to give the plebeians their land back)

Then came Caesar who is a plebian but had a taste of the rich life

Proletarian (page 97)

 

Pompey                 First

                     Triumvirate

Crassus   

 Julius Caesar                                 

 

• Rubicon- the river that marks the northern most boundary of the northern territories
• (decision you cant come back on)
• Caesar and his men killed pompey because pompey told the senate to tell Caesar what he cant do
• They names Caesar "father of the father land"
• Caesar tries to be supreme ruler of the republic
• He becomes a tribune and becomes part of the senate
• He has power in all of the Governments
• Caesar becomes dictator
• Caesar took control and didn't listen to the senates
• Caesar used his problems to attack the problems in Rome
• He took care to keep the loyalty of the soldiers and prevent the rise of rival warlords
• He extended Roman citizenship to parts of Gaul and Spain
• Caesar was dictator for life
• Caesar got stabbed 23 times in the senate
• Caesar never ruled by terror like Sulla

4/25/14

Today in class we ate Maria's cheesecake and watched Alyssa and Nat present their project. The cheesecake was interesting because it had a bayleaf on it. It made the cheesecake taste kind of spicy. After that we took more notes on Rome. I think this Rome section is very easy and I cant wait until the test because I want to bring my grades up. Well its getting late and im tired so goodnight to all who read this.

4/23/14

Today we presented more projects and mostly today was just food. Will had good pork, and the girls had good pastries. Cameron told me an interesting fact that they would sometimes fill up the colosseum with water and have a ship battle. There are a lot of similar foods that the Romans would eat, that we would eat too. hopefully we all did good on our projects.

4/22/14

Today in class we presented our projects that we had to do over spring break. Mr. Schick called our Colosseum a do-nut which kind of made us feel bad about it. We made the coliseum out of Styrofoam and it took us 2 days total to finish it. Austins coloseum was amazing but he didnt have a presentation to go along with it. Overall I think we probably got a 85, I was hoping for a 90 or above but it is what it is. The food the people made was really good, we had a pie and sesame cookies. They both tasted the same to me but all in all today was a very good day to me.

4/11/14

Today in class we took a test for Mr. Shcick. I got an 80 on it but I thought I did much better than that. Next week we don't have school so me and Scott are taking that opportunity to build the coliseum. We are building it out of Styrofoam. Mr. Schick just put my grade in and im looking now!

4/9

Today in class we took notes on the Punic wars and the government of Rome. Here are the notes.

Roman legion- was like the name of the army

Legion- 5000 men

Century- 80 men

Infantry- foot soldiers     cavalry- soldiers on horse

Punic Wars                 Rome (wins all 3) v. Carthage

1. Sicily
2. Hannibal
3. Sack Carthage - North Africa   

Me and Scott's project is due on Tuesday and we haven't started yet. Luckily we don't have school next week because of the break.

4/8/14

Today we took notes- here are the notes

• instead of a king, there were 2 consuls (president/king)
• Senate and the house of representatives, u.s. is modeled after Roman government
• Senate runs every 2 years
• They discovered what kind of government they want to have
• u.s. went to roman government but gave more power 
• Plebeians(middle class) and patricians(aristocrats) and slaves

 

 

• 3 forms of gov in republic - aristocracy(senate/senate), monarchy(consul/president) and democracy(assembly/house of representatives)
• Senate are elected by aristocracy 
• Assembly elected by plebeians, service of the middle class
• If you were elected to assembly - tribune
• Senate - senator
• Consul - consul - 2 of them, most powerful people
• When u.s. formed their gov., they based it off the way the Romans did it
• If something happened they used a dictator until it passed; only served for 6 months

4/7/14

1. It was placed in the center of Italy in on a river. It was a good location which gave them the chance to control all of Italy. It put them in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
2. In 600 B.C a Etruscan king ruled over his people and Rome. By this time, Rome had grown to be a wealthy and large city. The Romans resented the Etruscan rule. In 509 B.C, they finally over threw the king and declared that Rome would be a Republic.
3. The nobles and the common people.
4. They said that all free citizens were protected by law. They were posted in a public place for all to see.
5. During the next century the Romans capitalized on their advantageous geographical position and rebuilt Rome.

Gauls- France


                                                                THE PUNIC WARS (basically was for the control of Sicily)

• Carthage was on the  North coast of Africa
• Rome vs Carthage
• Carthage was founded in 700 B.C. by Phoenician colonists
• Carthage had become an oligarchic and empire building republic like Rome.
• But ultimately what was at stake was control of the Mediterranean sea
• the punic wars were waged on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 B.C
• in 146 B.C. Carthage was finally captured
• To be leveled its people sold into slavery
• in 202 B.C. Rome had won control of western Mediterranean

4/4/14

Today in class we took notes from out of the book. We are learning about Rome and its social class and government. The plebeians were like common people like us and they would be treating wrong from the upper class people. Then they had the laws on this tablet to help support the plebeians, Kind of like the declaration of Independence. Rome was a lot like Sparta but they change a few things. This subject is interesting to me though.

4/2/14

Today in class we took some notes:

The Latin's were the first people to settle Italy

Then Etruscans

Then the Greeks

Rome was on the Tiber river

You get many things from the river

On seven hills

Found a way to transport water from other swamps and lakes to the Tiber river

The last king Rome/Italy  ever had- Tarquin the Proud

Res publica- Latin for the people's business where the word republic comes from

They elected representatives

 

REPUBLIC

1. Democracy
2. Monarchy  - two consuls                                      plebeians- regular, ordinary people
3. Aristocracy                                      patricians are the people with the money and the land.

4/1/14

Today in class Mr. Schick just reviewed this list for a project we are doing before spring break. Me and Scott already have some ideas on what we're going to do. We are going to do the coliseum and make it out of Styrofoam. I know it sounds complicated but it really isn't. It's very simple because we watched a guy do it on you tube. Other than that todays class was really chill. We even had chic ago come in for a second ;) he was really cool.