Western civ blog

Today in class we took a quiz we also took some notes. my notes consisted of "Cleisthenes - definitely a member of the elite" “ saw the value of tapping into the talents, intelligence, and energies of the non-aristocrats” “ What Cleisthenes did was a huge step forward - getting “regular folks” involved in governing.” “ But this first democracy had its limits.” “ citizens could participate - but only one-fifth of Athenians were citizens (free adult male property owners born in Athens) ” “ after several years, Athens practiced a direct democracy ”

On Friday in class we took notes. my notes consisted of, "sometimes aristocrats form alliances with hoplites." "tyrant:someone who rules outside the framework of the polis." "modern meaning of tyrant: an abusive or oppressive ruler." "The greek meaning of tyrant: someone who simply seized power (usually with hostile help)."

today in class we took we took notes. My notes we " homer remembered the oddessey by using rhythm. " "homer composed the Iliad and the oddessey, Trojan war= Iliad oddessey=guy trying to get home." "the homeric question is did homer really exist." "he was a blind old man who and 2 very good stories memeorized."

Today in class we took notes. My notes consisted of, "greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives, and fish." "Lack of resources most likely led to greek colonization." "because of there diet they were very healthy people." "back then, temperatures usually ranged from mid 40s in the winter and low 80s in the summer -although it could get hot in the summer it was usually nice all year round." "There influence began around 2000 bce" "Myclena located on the rocky ridge of pelopennesus protected by a 20 foot thick wall" "1400 bce- Myceans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics. religion)" "Greeks have fought many wars overtime" "Trojen War- Fought in the 12th or 13th cent. bce " " part of greek mythology -until the 19th cent. most historians thought it was fictional because gods and goddesses got involved" "the goddesses Athena, aphrodite, w...

Today in class we took notes. Some of my notes are, "the sea shaped the ancient greek civilization, in one sense, the greeks didn't live on land but around water." "The land was very mountainous so the people settled in valleys but travel was hard through the mountains so they didn't have good communication between the greek communities." "Due to all the mountains there wasn't a lot of fertile farmland so the greeks couldn't ever maintain a large population." "Greek stories tell of their army's capture of the legendary city of Troy by hiding soldiers in a hollow wooden horse." "greeks had many gods and they all served a purpose in one way or another."

Today in Mr. Shicks's Western civilization class we learned a few things and also learned how his classroom is ran.  For example we set up our blogs and learned that we had to complete one everyday that we had that class even if we weren't in class we still have to complete our daily blog if we want to get credit for that day. we also took roll so we learned who we would be in class with this semester.  We also started our first bit of class work we took notes out of our textbooks. It was on chapter 5 pages 118-126. My notes included, "The greek city-state Athens were the first to develop a new form of government called democracy." One of my other notes were "Alexander the great spread the greek culture throughout much of Asia, Greek, Egyptian, and Asian cultures then blended to create Hellenistic culture. And another one of my notes was " The greeks often honored there gods and people of higher social status such as Julius Cesar for example by making very d...