Point Power

I'm ready to pull out the big guns and be the epic presenter. I am excited for this and I think I did very good and I will WOW tomorrow. Do you watch Survivor? It is a very good show. It's really funny when people flip out and lose there mind when it is raining for days. It was epic a few weeks ago. I really recommend the show to you and it is the best show ever! If you get a chance, watch it at 8 on cbs. You will not be disappointed. 

Project

This project on Alex The Great actually interests me. I like Alex The Great and he is brave. He was a good leader then any other leader from the Republican party or the Democratic party. He could lead men unlike other leaders like Obama, Bush and others. He could bring people into war and eanr there respect at a young age as he took over when he was 20 years old. What about the NCAA tournament to.

Assignment

Hellenistic- refers to the international period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule.



They lost because when they were in a war with Corinth who were Sparta's alleys, Sparta joined in and started to fight Athens. They were hit by the plague that killed at least 1/3 of the population. They had lots of strengths in the navy but still lots to the Spartans and they gained there land. Still though, Greeks were advancing in civilization.They had to pull there defense walls and had to partner up with Sparta. Athens still had there democracy going for them and it was not taken away.

In 359 BC- King Philip II of Macedonia came to power and moves to control Greece

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IMPORTANT DATES:  In a sentence or two, describe what important or historical event took place on the following dates:

1600 – 1200 BC: Mycenean civilization

1150 – 750 BC- Dark Ages

776 BC- Olympic games started

750 – 700 BC- Homer wrote Illiad and Oddessey

508 BC-Athens started democracy, common people threw out Isagaros was taken over, he was unprepared and had to agree to truce and Spartans were taken over, now they turned to Clesithenous to take back over

490 BC- Fidipidis ran in the battle of Marathon

480 BC- Themesticlies created the tririms and that beat Persians and killed King Darius with them and even though they were outnumbered they still won straight of salimus is where they were lowered into

461 – 429 BC- Age of Periclies

447 – 438 BC- they built the Parthanon

431 – 404 BC- Pericluis takes podium and says they must fight Sparta. They had peloponesian war end of golden age, lost 1/3 or 2/3 of people cause of this war, Periclius died because of the plague also

399 BC- Socrates

336 BC- Alexander the Great creating empire

MEN, WOMEN, GODS AND GODDESSES YOU SHOULD KNOW:  In one or two sentences, describe what is significant about the following people (or immortals):

Homer- he wrote Illiad and Oddessey

Odysseus- He was Trojan war hero, spent 10 years trying to come back angers Phosiden and he knocks him off course and many adventures happen

Zeus- Ancient greek god, he was the sky god

Athena- was the patrionist of Athens, was a goddess of wisdom,

Draco- formulate greek laws to one code of laws and very harsh

Pisistratus- he took over because he said he ws with goddess Athena, but he was a tyrant sided with regular folks, lowed taxes gave loans

Cleisthenes- told since birth he was gonna be a leader but was one to warn them of giving tririms

Darius (the Great)- king of Persia during battle of marathon and died

Xerxes- wanted to take down Athens, burned down acropolis later defeated

Pheidippides- ran the marathon and ran to sparta

Themistocles- need to build tririms in case got attacked and

Pericles- he became new leader of Athens he had partner who had equal power chick, got pelopenisian war

Aristophanes- part of red light district

Socrates-Socrates was a man of great logic. He invented the idea of decisions on good and bad and got the Athenian people to think for themselves.

Plato- learned under socrates

Aristotle

Alexander the Great

Socrates

I believe that it was unfair when the people of Athens lost the war to Sparta, they blamed the loss on Socrates, the philosopher that believed that the question was more important than the answer. He went out with a bang! When he was put on trial, he said that he should be getting free meals for the rest of his life! He was found guilty and was put in prison. There he had an opportunity to get out but refused. Then at his life sentencing, he was telling people to calm down and they were the ones crying and he was trying to calm them down. That is a weird man.  

Greece

When I was watching the video about ancient Greece, I found it very interesting that the marathon was really originated in ancient Greece. All of that running and he got nothing for it! That is very weird, I mean no water, food or at least a pat on the back? Come on! I want to know what really happened in this story. Also why was king Xerxes on the gold chair? I believe that people should have had a  bow and arrow and just killed the guy and not let him go. I would have just shot him first. I was wondering, how easy would it be if we had the weapons that we have today and how they would fare against these people...

Today's Movie

In Western Civilization we watched the movie on Greece. I liked the part with the Olympic games. I thought that it was very cool on how they only had 4 sports in them which were wrestling, boxing, chariot racing and, running. It was short but simple and that was very cool. I was surprised on a lot of things about the games. All wars stopped for the games and that is something else because if murder can be stopped by games, then the founders sure did know how to put together something for everyone. Also, people didn't  get sponsorship deals or money. They just got recognized for there showings. I think it should be like that today.