Movie on Nero

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Today in West Civ we watched a movie about the Emperor Nero. Mr. Schick seemed to really like him probably because they are both insane. Anyway the video was interesting. We continue to watch the same videos from BBC. Apparently there was a huge season or something on the civilization of Rome. Anyway I think that we are going to be watching more on Nero tomorrow and probably mosre videos about the same series that are about Rome.

Powerpoint Presentation By Schick

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Today we mostly took notes again on a presentation that Mr. Schick made. Here are my notes:

Octavian - AKA Caesar Augustus
Pax Romana - a period of peace and prosperity > built roads, aqueduct (brought water to the cities)
Set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service
Augustus dies = 76 in A.D. 17 and passes power to.............

From Jesus to Christianity:
Jesus was a Roman citizen and a practicing Jew
At 30, began his ministry preaching to the poor in the empire and reaching out to outsiders
Statements like "My kingdom......" make the Romans and the Jews nervous and they began to plan his execution
Governor of the Roman province of Judea = Pontius Pilate sentence's Jesus' death 

Taking Notes on Julius Caesar

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Today in West Civ we just took notes, here they are:

Western Civ Notes

Proletarians - In ancient Rome, a propertyless but voting citizens 

Rome’s citizen-soilders were now “semi-professionals” who fought largely in the hope of bettering themselves through pay, loot, promotion, and above all grants of land or money to provide them with a living when they were discharged 

Most Roman generals just watched their men battle it out, Julius however would get into the battle, get bloody and do the work of his men along with him. This is why his men would do anything for him

In 60 B.C. he began to collaborate with Pompey, and Carassus, an officer promoted by Sulla who had conquered many eastern Mediterranean lands. Together the 2 allies formed a triumvirate, Crassus was an army general, with Pompey being the richest man alive at the time

With the help of his new friends, Caesar won an appointment as proconsul of a province that included the southern regions of Gaul, a territory stretching all of the way from northern Italy and the Mediterranean coast to the Rhine River and the Atlantic. 

The Gaulish tribes outside the Roman-ruled areas were called, were a branch of the Celtic peoples, the predominant barbarian ethnic group across most of western Europe and the British Isles. 

On the northern part of Italy there was a river that bordered them from places like Gaul. This river was called the Rubicon. 

Final Day of Presentations

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Today I finally went in the class presentations for the Western Civ projects. I did have store-bought stuff. I actually tasted really awesome even though I actually had to re-freeze it because it melted the day before. I think overall my project went pretty well. I hope that I at least get an A on it because I worked really hard on the presentation and the poster board so I hope my hard work pays off. I'm glad that I got to go today. I'm pretty positive that all of the presentations are done, so I hope that Mr. Schick puts the grades in very soon. I hope that I did great!

2nd Day of Presentation

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Today we did even more presentations. I think that after a couple of presentations today I will almost definitely go Friday, because we don't have class tomorrow. Arri's group finally got to go today, after taking a ton of class time yesterday trying to get their video to work on about EVERYONE'S computer in the classroom. Delany had the best presentation in the class so far. She looked like she spent a TON of time making it over the spring break. She made Roman notes and a bunch of stuff that actually looked real! I was really surprised how much work she put into it. I hope I get to go tomorrow so I don't have to worry anymore about it.

First Day of Presentations

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Today was the first day of presentations. Also it was the first day back from spring break. I kinda needed to go first today in presentations, but oh well. Anyway the presentations today so far were pretty good. Arri's group tried to go today, but that kinda failed. All of them tried their computers while trying to play the video and it never worked on any of theirs computers. From how everything went today, the rest of the week will be spent presenting projects. By that I mean that the projects took a very long time and I think that this will take a long time. I will see if I need to present tomorrow!

Notes Before The Test

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Here are a compile of notes that I took, that have to do with the test we will be having on Friday,

- Roman Legion: Consisted of 500 Roman Soldiers, if they needed to they would split up into Centuries made up of 80 soldiers
- 1st Punic War was fought in Sicily
- 2nd Punic War was fought over taking over Rome
- 3rd Punic War was fought over Rome destroying Carthage

The other things that we talked about were all about the project. I have already found multiple websites on Roman cuisine, I'm not sure what food I am going to bring in, but we will see. I plan on making a large poster board or tri-fold that will have a bunch of facts and what they ate and when they ate,

Watching Some Video

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Today in class, we watched some weird videos on the Punic War. I didn't really watch them that closely because I was emailing my dad back in forth. I have 3 tests tomorrow and 2 on Friday. Those are at least the ones that I know about and what I can think about right off the top of my head at this moment, so I may even have more than that. I was trying to get out of practice so I can go study tonight and not fail all of them tomorrow. I also have a ton of homework to do tonight and a project that is due Thursday that I haven't finished yet. These are the problems that I am dealing with right now and I hope that I figure them out soon. 

Taking Notes... Yay...

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Today in class we took notes. Really fun, I know. I was starving in class and Mr. Schick wouldn't let me get my lunch, but oh well. Here are the notes that I took in class.

• Myth of Rome is that the settled on a land that was ruled by Reins and Romulus which were raised by a she-wolf (check Wikipedia)

• Woman was a virgin and conceived by the god

• Twins left to die in the Tiber and were rescued and raised by a she-wolf

• Twins went on to find Rome and rule

• Big conflict that went on for centuries was between the rich and the poor - not necessarily actual fighting

• The Gracchus brother were elected to the assembly and they always tried to make thing better for the poor in Rome

• Time of war everyone fought rich and poor- unless you have a physical ailment

• You may be fighting for 5-10 years

• Families carried on to work the farm (wives and children)

• Rich older people unable to fight would try to swoop in and buy the farm, this happened a lot

• Rich people were able to have massive acres of land were the sellers would still work on the farm

• Gracchus brothers didn't think that this was right and made a concept that stated the rich were already exceedingly rich and made farms called latifundia. You have more land than you need so give some of the land back to the poor

• Latifundia was huge acres of land that the rich owned

• In the end the Gracchus brothers appealed and the law was vetoed at first then the Gracchus brothers won and on of the members of the senate beat one of the brothers to death with a chair and threw him in the Tiber river then the law was overturned

• People believe that America is going done the same road as Rome

• Big cooperation's buy out small farmers who can't make it

Here are some of the other notes that we had to take on the Punic War

-Fought on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 BC

-In the first phase, Rome was able to force Carthage out of Sicily.

-Second, the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and brought Rome to a brink defeat.

-Third, Carthage was captured after bitter fighting.

-The Senate ordered the city to be leveled, people to be sold into slavery, and the ground on which it had stood to be solemnly cursed.

-This was only an epilogue to the main struggle.

-Rome had won control of the western Mediterranean.

Notes On The Rome Test

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Here are the notes that I took today in class while Schick was talking:

- The Latin people were the first to settle in Rome

- They settled on the shores of Tiber

- Mediterranean means Middle of the Earth

- The most educated people thought that the Mediterranean was the middle, best focus of the Earth

- They thought that the gods gave Italy the location that they had because they were destined to rule

- The Latin people thought they were the best people, because they were so geographically lucky

- They drained rivers so that they could build towers and buildings in the locations where the swamps were

- Res publica, meaning the people's affairs/business of the people

- President of the United States, like a king, controls Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Army

- Representatives for United States, have at least 2 and the amount you have per state depends on the population

- The government of Rome was a monarchy and an oligarchy combined when it first formed but eventually turned into a democracy, aristocracy monarchy combined

What I'm Going To Do For My Project

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I think that for the project that we talked about today I am going to do food and such. I think I will just do a huge board on cuisine in Roman times. I'm not completely sure what we are supposed to do for the project but I will read more on it and really plan out and find out what I will do for it later.