Powerpoint Asssigment

Today we got assigned one last project before the third quarter ends. Tona and I are partners and we started and finished it for homework. We would be ready to present tomorrow if we could but we do not have class. We had to work about the death of Alexander the Great. I think we had some pretty important information I need to copy and paste over to my blog to study in case of future test. I liked this last project and I am excited to present in class.

Tuesday

Today we read some chapter in our books, and then we had class discussion about Alexander the Great and the Macedonian king. he was very young when he died about the same age as my older brother and that is weird to think. I'm excited to learn more about the Greeks and their empire under Alexander the Great.

Chapter 5

Hellenistic is an era in which theirs was the leading international culture but their way of life was also influenced by the peoples they ruled. Period of greek history between Alexander the Great and the Maceodonian king.
This is Macedonia

The Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War because firstly overall Spartians had a better Army then the Athens. They would train their young boys from a very very young age to fight when they are older. They made them believe that they were to do nothing with their lives but defend their city and fight. The Athenians just were not as strong as the Spartans. The geography was a disadvantage and the war was fought over water on most of it, and the Athenians did have a better navy but overall their strategics sand warriors were not as advanced or "ready" as the Spartans warriors are. The spartan army completely defeated the Athenian army and the Athenians used their navy to guard but it was pointless by then. The Athenians just did not have the same kind of fighting skills as the Spartans and they were not as tough, thus they lost the war and had to go under control of an oligarchy because of Sparta. But since Sparta lost so many men as well the Athenian people eventually went back to a democracy because the Spartans couldn't stop them, so they finally got back their independence. They had poor leadership. They were took cocky since they beat the Persians twice so they had an act of Hubris. Natural disaster and they didn't gather as many allies. They should not have gone for Sparta anyway. With help from Persia, Sparta got a huge navy.

In 359 B.C. Maceodina came under the rule of King Philip II, a ruler of broad vision who was determined to gain control of the city-states and to lead the Greeks and Macedonians in the united force against the weakening empire of Persia. He strengthed his army by adopting Greek phalanx tactics, improving weapons of his hoplites, and building up a stronger cavalry force than any city state possessed. He used his newly won power wisely, letting the Greek city states govern themselves so long as they installed oligarches and acted as loyal allies. Phillip now at the head of a powerful alliance , vowed to avenge the insults and injuries inflicted on Greek temples and sancturies by the invading Persians more than a century before. But as he stood in the very blink of fulfillment he was assassinated in 336 B.C. His son Alexandra III only twenty years old, succeeded him, and proceeded to carry out his fathers grand design. (pg 82) (West Civ Book)

Friday

On friday we just went over all the tests and part of the study guide. We will be having a test on Monday and it is open blog and Im excited to see how I do because I think I have been getting pretty good notes down for my blog from the class video!

Tuesday notes

Socrates was a dirty man and cared nothing about his appearance and was only interested in the mind of a person. He was the leader of the revolution of learning. He spent his days talking and debating the people he would see on the streets. He said that "unexammened life is not worth living" That you need to think about your life and your reason on the plant and why things happen. Pericles had an act of Hubris and he wanted to conquer the Spartans and he attacked them. The Spartans came back and invaded Athens and invaded their area and burned down their crops and fields. The Athenian Naval ships brought back and plague and since everyone was crammed behind a wall it spread very quickly. The plague killed over a third of the Athenian people. The plague spread to Pericles and after six months of him having it, in 429 B.C. he died. The Athenian people lost the Peloponneseian war to the Spartans and once they lost they looked for someone to blame. The only person they could blame for questioning their way of life and criticizer them was Socrates so he was arrested for unmanning state religion and corruption of the youth.

Monday Notes with Review

483 B.C. the Athenians discovered silver in the town and they wanted to divide it amoung themselves. Cleisthenes wanted too use the money for the ships, but he knew it would be difficult to win. They built 200 tyrenes for the naval force. Darius died in 486 BC and his son Xerxes took over. He wanted to burn Athens to the ground, so he gathered all his troops from all over and the rumors spread to Athens that the Persians were coming over for war. Athenians turned to the Gods and sent someone to the oracle. Cleisthenes plan was to avoid conflict on land and fight in the water. Xerxes force entered Athens and burned the acropolis and temples to the ground. Cliesthenes sent his servant to Xerxes to make it look like he was betraying the Greeks and he told Xerxes that the Greeks were going to flea and the only way to attack them was in Straights of Salamis. The Persians went to that area of the water and got defeated by the Greeks again and the Persians lost 200 ships. Athens could now build an empire and they were head of the navy. In 450 the Delieah League had become Athens empire and that is an organized bunch of city states all chipping in money. Cliesthenes ended up getting ostracized because they took him as a threat and thought he would go to be the dictator and he ended up dying in the Persian land. Pericles was leader of Athens at its climax. Pericles knew the people wanted an empire, so he proposed to make a Parthenon. It was extremely expensive and it took 15 years to build, it was a glorious symbol of the Greeks of Athens. Twice a year Athenian people would gather at a theater to watch comedies and tragedy's  An example is Ascapascha was known as an escort and she "hung out" with Pericles but she was extremely educated and Pericles treated her as an equal. An example of a tragedy play was Oedipis and it was written about a king that was told when he was a young boy he would kill his father and marry his mother, and it ended up all being true, and he couldnt stand the look on peoples faces when they found out he married his mother so he gouged his eyeballs out. Hubris is a greek term used to describe people in power who are arrogant and they feel like they can do whatever they want.

Movie

Today we had a sub and just watched some of the movie. My notes about it and more of the movie will be up on Monday night because they are in my notebook which is in my school locker. Overall we just watched the part about the Persians coming back for more war but the Greeks narrowed them in the water and won that battle as well. They were the head of the Navy supposedly after that war. The acropolis was burned though because the Persians first took them by land. Xerxes became ruler of the Persians after his father died (Darius). The Parthenon then came into the Greeks ideas and it took them 15 years to build it, but once it was built all the criticizer about it ended. People loved it and would go their and be amazed. It is still standing today and people go to just look at it and take pictures.