Group Project

Caligula and his family got in an argument with Tiberius and Tiberius was worried that because Caligula's father was a hero that he would be a political threat.  Tiberius had the family accept Caligula killed.  He was the survivor. Tiberius hated him until one day he for some reason warmed up to him.  He made Caligula his heir to the throne.  Caligula at first exceeded expectations and then slid into insanity.  He became a crazy tyrant and a perv.  One thing that he did well was construction.  He was later assassinated by his closest people. 

5/111/11 & 5/12/11 & 5/13/11

     I'm gonna make this quick. Blogger was down or something...  We watched a movie both days about Rome going into the first century.  Julius Ceazer had a lot of support and pretty much threw out the republic.  He created the triumvrant to rule when he died.  Octavian had won fights with and gotten rid of the other members when they started hating each other.  He became Ceazer Augustus.  As the first century unfolded Rome controlled pretty much all the way around the entire Medeteranian.  After Augustus died they had a bit of trouble controlling some areas.  Tiberius was the 50 year old heir to the thrown.  Two far away armies decided to rebel. Germanicus was sent and he solved the problem.  He had a son named Caligula who was adored by everyone too.  They called him Bootsey.  Peace was made.  Tiberius killed Germanicus and his family all died accept for Caligula.  Tiberius embraced Caligula and made him the heir.  Meanwhile Jesus changed everything when he died and the Christians made of it what they did.  Tiberius died after Jesus did.  Caligula exceeded expectations at first and then became became crazy and started killing Jews.  His friends killed him.  Claudius then came along and was humble.  He helped people and obtained Britain. 

5/9/11

     Today we went over the tests that we did from Greece until Rome.  We did not touch the essays though because they are not graded yet.  I got and eighty seven on both tests.  Or at least I'm pretty sure.  Anyway I didn't do as well as I had expected to do on the Greek test.  But on the Roman test I did exactly how I had thought I'd do.  I didn't get the triumvrant questions.  I got everything else on it right.  We also talked about how exams are not to far away.  So the review was good and that's about it.

5/8/11

    Today we had a pop quiz.  This is the third pop quiz.  Mr. Schick said that it wasn't a pop quiz.  He didn't tell us about it but it is on his blog.  He posted it after school yesterday.  It was on Rome.  It was a mix of the pfds that he emailed us and the projects that we had done.  Not all of the projects have been shared yet and so I am actually predicting another test.  But anyway, I don't think I did bad on it.  The only questions that I had no clue about were the triumvrent questions.

5/5/11

3 Govs Rolled Into One

Society was made up of plebeians and patricians.

The democracy part part of the government was the assembly which was the least powerful.

The senate was the aristocratic part of the government.

The consuls were the monarchy part of the government.

Legions and other soldiers were also high in society.

After the war with Carthage they they decided that they needed and emergency dictator.

Hannibal was in charge of the Carthaginians and they attacked Rome from the back.

After the Punic Wars

When the soldiers left rich people would seize their properties if they didn't keep up with their payments of something.

The Gracchus Brother attempted to pass a land reform that would redistribute huge pieces of patrician land among the plebeians. 

The brothers were both assassinated for their attempts.

Julius Ceaser

He was a Roman General and statesman.

He manipulated the government to become a dictator for 10 years.

A guy named Sulla tried to kill him but Julius bribed him.

General Pompey and Crassus had political alliance with Julius.

They both gave him money.

Julius crossed his army over the Rubicon and conquered Gaul.

The senators told Julius to leave his army on the other side and Julius brought his army anyway.

Julius crossig was considered an act of war.

Julius was proclaimed dictator for life.

A group of senators led by Brutus assassinated him.

The assasination resulted in civil war.

Murder of Julius Ceaser

He was stabbed on the Ides of March in 44BC in the theater of Pompey by the senators 23 times.

He had to much power.

Second Triumvirate

Octavious was born into an equestrian family.

His father was the first in the family to  be a senator.

He was a senator under Julius Ceaser.

Lepidus was a patrician and one of Julius's biggest supporters.

Cleopatra was Egypt's last pharaoh.

Octavious, Antony, and Lepidus formed a triumvrant.  They were official.

Cleopatra tried to take over power from Octavious.

Antony slept with Cleopatra.

She later committed suicide.

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Augustus made Roman peace in which they prospered.

Roman roads were built.

In coliseums the had gladiator events.  

5/4/11

     Today Mr. Schick wasn't here.  We were told by the sub to check his blog.  Sure enough were suppose to continue our Power Point project on Rome.  Vinny was sick today.  Brad was sick yesterday.  Brad joined our group.  He got pictures while I worked on putting information in...

The Etruscans and the Greeks were very important in Roman history.

The Etruscans had a written language which the Romans took most of their writing technique from.

The Greek gods and goddesses were used by the Romans.  The Greek culture had a huge influence on the
Romans.

The Latins were the first ones to live in the area.

Many of the words that the Romans had came from Latin.

Many modern words and languages are based on Latin.

The Latins had a huge influence on the world. 
The Tiber River is where the Latins lived.
The Latins were the dominant and civilized people on this area of the river.
The Romans soon became in this region and the Latins became part of it.
They soon had a king called Tarquin.
He later earned the name Tarquin the proud when he became a control freak and peole didn’t like him.
The people got angry and later drove him out of Rome.
Because of this the people learned how bad a king could be.
They never had another dictator again.
They then came up with their republican government.

5/2/11

Today at the beginning of class we talked about the killing of Bin Laden.  We pretty much talked about if we believed or not.  We also talked about why it was important.  Then we started discussing the rap that Mr. Schick wrote and made.  We then got in groups or partners and picked a picked a number paragraph and we have to make a power point.  Vinny and I got the second paragraph (paragraph 1).


The Etruscans and the Greeks were very important in Roman history.  The Etruscans had a written language which the Romans took most of their writing technique from.  The Romans basically got they're gods from the Greeks.  The Greeks contributed a lot of culture to the Romans.  And then there were Latins who were there first.


This is about as far as we got along with some pictures to go with the Power Point.