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The Huns came from the steppes of Mongolia.
They took over most of east Europe.
The Visigoths were a German Tribe that took over Rome

Did I do well?

The quiz was much different today. It was on pure knowledge of the subject. I thought it would be to hard and I was right and no right at the same time. I liked the first question and I can't believe that someone would get the first question wrong! There were only 1 or 2 questions that I could not remember but other than that the test went pretty smoothly. My hand was so tired and was about to fall off, probably because I am not writing that much any more so my hand is out of shape.

Questions

Who had the worst persecution of Christians ever? Diocletian
Who was the first Roman Emperor that was Christian? Constantinople
When was Diocletian's reform? 284 A.D.
When was the first Christian books spread? 300 A.D.
How many people were Christians in 300 A.D.? 50

Notes on the boring presentation

Diocletian persecution has the worst persecution of Christians ever.
He burned the churches, all books were burned, they weren't letting any worship and people that were Christians lost their jobs. All bishops and priests were arrested. If any clergyman wanted to be freed, they would have to make a sacrifice to the Roman Gods. All men, women and children had to make a sacrifice to be executed. Constantine built up an army to make a way for Christianity. He built a big capital called Constantinople after him.

Struggles With Rome

In the third century.
Bad diseases spread through the empire.
To hard to fight against the barbarians.
Emperors lost power.
It cost lots of money for a great army.
Lots of poverty.

Diocletian's reform in 284
Increased army.
Divide Rome into smaller provinces.
Now there were 20,000 officials which was 2,000 more officials than under Augustus.

300 AD
60 million people in the Roman Empire.
Several millions are Christians.

Diocletian left Christians alone at first however, he then started to kill them.
Constantine ruled as the emperor from 306-337 AD.

Diocletian  had clergy and other members of faith put in arenas and let lions lose on them.  After there death they would be known as martyrs.   Crucifixion was no longer an option for torture.  Diocletian said that they would be a sacrifice to the gods, for believing in only one God.

Constantine converted to Christianity.
He became the patron for the faith.
Lots of places to pray were built.
Then the Romans had some more Christian government officials and laws came into place.
Crucifixion was illegal to Christians now.
In 331, 50 Christian books came and those were the first spread of the bible.

Civil War

There were a lot of Tiberius supporters but the senate and Octavian turned some of those people in believing that he is a bad person but he was really not. The senate were on him. He was beaten to death because the senate thought that he would become king. His mother was very hard on him and she said that no even her worst enemy had given her that many problems.

What was wrong with Rome,

The soldiers/ farmers lost there land and farms when they returned to Italy and they had low status. The rich bought them out.

War profiteers bounded and traded so they could make big plantations

War profiteers used wealth to buy farms

Then they would make food to eat and sell. 

The Plan

The people were resettled on land that were unused.

Food was given to the poor

The number of farmers would grow.

Carthage

I have no idea why the Romans would burn Carthage because they could make more money with the land they got. How did they burn the land so fast? All of that in 3 months? They must have a huge hate for the people of Carthage. I would live on that land forever! I like the movie because of the acting is pretty good and the characters have a good story behind them. I am looking forward to the rest of the video. I am finally one happy camper.

This was made on Monday and I just saved it by mistake and did not publish it. I hope that you will understand and give me the credit for the blog. Thank You.

84

I got an 84 on my test. I am happy about my grade and it brought my grade up to passing. That is very good and now I will not get yelled at anymore. The test was quite easy and had a few tough questions. An 84 is very good for me and I don't get that good of a grade very often.

Lovin' The Multiple Choice

I thought that the test was very east today and that it was well constructed. The questions were not to hard and easy to understand what it was trying to say. I didn't even have to ask one question! I also love that the color of the test was purple because it makes it look and feel a bit easier. I don't know why but it really does! I was very happy about how my quiz went and I see my grade going up in the near future. I'm one happy camper today.

Bit of notes

9:58 AM

Tarquin was the last Roman King

He had a son who raped a woman and then she committed suicide

Res Piublica- Peoples affair, peoples power, what we know now as a republic

Patricians are wealthy land owners, Plebeians have the normal, middleclass people

Aristocracy created the democracy and there were 300 of them

The people wanted the patricians to come out and say the laws of Rome so they came up the 12 tables that had the laws and the punishments put down

There monarchs were called consuls and there were 2 of them and they had to be chosen by the senate and had a one year term and then take 10 years before they could run again.

At times they had a dictator that only could be there for 6 months in times of crisis

Rome had a very big military that was well trained and they were called the Roman Legion

A third of the population were slaves and they tried to revolted against us

Carthage tries to take over the island of Sicily and fails

Carthage tries to take over Roma and fail

Then Rome crushes them

Presentations

Carlys music thing was amazing. It was well edited and the pictures were well timed. Now if I had one mine would be much better cause I would be the best rapper ever. I would not have any special name or anything. Now I have to watch some wrestling.

Roma

There is a great soccer team in Rome called Roma.                                                       
They have some really good players on there team. There rivals are a team called Lazio and they want to break each others neck. The best player on Roma is a legend named Totti.
He scores a lot of work.

Sounds Like I Missed A Lot

It sound as if I was absent for a month instead of a day. I came back and it was like the whole class had changed. I was not expecting a song that I thought was going to be just a joke, became quite the event and was the whole topic of class today and the day that I was sadly not here for. The good news is that I can finally type without looking at the keyboard! I am so happy that I finally can do this and it took me so long but I finally can do it!

Out sick

Got Sick, be back tomorrow

Link

http://Pixton.com/ic:7nxvhbjw

Rome Notes

Terms

Patricians- Upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest roman families
Republic - in reference to ancient Rome, the system of city-state government in which decision- making power was shared between the senate and assemblies of male citizens
plebeians- the roman common people including workers, small farmers and wealthy people who were not patricians.
Senate- in ancient Rome, a government assembly appointed by the king and under the republic by the consuls: originally by the consuls: originally all members were patricians, but in time wealthy plebeians were appointed as well
consuls- in the roman republic two senators who led the government and military for one-year terms and appointed there own successors
dictator- in the roman republic, a single leader with full decision- making powers, appointed for a max. 6 month term during times of emergency
tribunes- magistrates elected by the plebeians, who eventually gained power to initiate and veto laws
client- A person who provides personal services in return for money and protection from a patron
patron- a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchanges for personal services
pontiff- in ancient Rome one of the republic's leading priests
paterfamilias- the family father in ancient Rome, who had unlimited power over his household
matron - title of honor given to a married woman in ancient rome

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