5/18/11

     Today we finished the Power Point on the Roman Empire.  Here are my notes on what we did today:

Romans had their own Gods and Emperors occasionally are proclaimed Gods.

The Jews (Zealots) started a revolution.

Christians and Jews were persecuted because they were monotheistic.

Christians were fed to lions at coliseums.

By 200 AD 10% of the Roman Empire was Christian.

We have a test tomorrow.  So after we did a small part that was the last of the Power Point.  We then got in groups and kind of studied and socialized.  I was with Jordan and Zach.  We just kind of got stuff organized.

5/16/11

     Today we went over a Power Point about some of the main points of the Kings and Jesus.  Here are my notes:

Augustus started Pax Romana and Rome built and prospered.

Augustus died and passed power to Tiberius.

Jesus was a Roman citizen and practicing Jew.

Jesus argued with high priests and stuff.

"My kingdom is not of this world" worried many Jews and Romans.

Jesus preached to all people especially to poor people.

The governor of the Roman province of Judea, Pontius Pilot.

Paul was an important word spreader about Jesus.

Tiberius was August's stepson and adopted son.

Tiberius hated the Senate.

Tiberius sent Germanicus to calm soldiers and he later killed him because he was powerful.

Caligula was the only survivor of Germanicus's son.

Caligula did good for the people and then startd to fight with the senate, claimed to be a god, and mocked the Jews.

He tried to make his horse a consul, screwed other men's wives during dinner and then bragged about it over desert.

He was then assassinated.

Claudius had some disabilities but was the last adult male in the family and became Emperor.

Claudius conquered Britain, built, renovated, and worked for the people.

His wife messed with some one who wanted to mess with the government he killed them.

I quote Jordan: "Kevin thinks all Muslims are terrorists."  I want to address this issue.  This is not true at all.  We had a discussion about Muslims becoming more of the population.  I said that this could be bad news.  First off I said that there just happen to be more Muslim extremists who use terrorism.  This has a lot to do with it being in the Koran that all who are not orthodox Muslim are horrible people and should be gotten rid of.  Or at least it can be translated this way by the Muslim extremists, and they take it to heart.  They then take action.  So there being more chances of their being more terrorists is bad.  Christians, because of this interpretation would not be treated well.  Indoctrination may would also be started by orthodox or extremist Muslims and it could be indoctrination like the Nazis and the Jews all over again.  Christians would then be looked down upon as the people who were ruining the world because we were different than the extremists.  This is just a dramatic example of what could happen way way in the future.  There is an example in Egypt where Christians are often looked down upon by the 90% Muslim population.  They are extreme rivals.  This is part of what I was trying to explain.  Short and simple: Christians may be looked down upon if the Muslim population goes way over the Christian population.  

PS:  I hopefully will blog about our socialism issue later. 

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.