LO-1 City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic.
-the Indo-European settlers formed various tribal groups, among them the Latin people of central Italy
- some of the Latins settled by the Tiber river
-the Etruscans were non- Indo- European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere to the east about the ninth century B.C.
-the romans also borrowed directly from the Greeks
- Under the influence of the Etruscans and the Greeks, the Romans acquired the skills that enabled them to build their unique political instructions
Patricians- "men with fathers"
Republic- the system of city-states government which decision-making people
Senate- was a family of three hundred patriarch families

Today in Western Civ, we finally took the test. Thank God we got to use our notes because if we couldn’t I don’t know if I would have passes. But there was one part that was like fill in the blank and I didn’t look in my notes to get any of those and I think I did pretty good. I don’t think I got an A because I probably mixed some of them up but I don’t think I did as awful as I thought I would. I think we should always get to use our blogs. If you take good blogs and do them and write good stuff down then I think you should get to use them.

Today in Western Civ, we finished going over the worksheet. It is the same worksheet that we have been working on for like weeks now. We have the test tomorrow and I am not to excited about it. I am going to try hard and study a lot tonight so I can ace it but I most likely will not. 

Today in Western Civ, we went over for the test tomorrow or Wednesday. I am not excited for it at all because I will probably do awful. But I am really going to study for this one. We just went over the paper that we have literally been doing it for like 2 weeks now. I don’t know exactly when the test will be, but we voted that it wouldn’t be tomorrow, so I am guessing it will be on Wednesday. 

Today in Western Civ, we went over the packet and notes. We are supposed to get a test on Friday, and I hope we don’t because I don’t know this stuff that well. Hopefully, it will be easy because I just am not good with social studies which is basically what this class is about. We went over the notes and the hard blog we had to do for cyber day. 

Today in Western Civ, well Mr. Schick was here for the first like 2 minutes of class, then he went somewhere. So we had a sub once again. Today I had finished all of my stuff that we were supposed to so I kind of just chilled. I also looked over my blog to make sure the answers I had were good. After that I just did other homework. Then got these very annoying hiccups which just would not go away. But other than that I didn’t do much today.  

1. Greece does not have mostly fertile land.
2. Approximately 3/4 of Greece is covered by mountains.
3. The word barbarian means someone who wasn't greek
4. A megalithic structures were massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs.
5. The term tribe refers to answer E all of the list from above.
6. Tribes were governed by d all of these
7.  The first European barbarians to make contact with cizilization were the Greeks.
8. China would not be considered a member of "western civilization."
9. The name of the sea located west of the Greek mainland is the Ionian Sea
10. the name of the sea located east of the Greek mainland was the Aegian Sea
11. The major crops that the Aegean people lived on were Grains, vines, and olives
12. The Mycenaean arose on the island of Crete.
13. The Mycenaean    established settlements along the Greek mainland's southern shore and on some islands
14. The Mycenaean civilization built massive walls to protect themselves from attack
15. The Dark ages  in Greek History in which the population dropped ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use, is called the Collapse of Crete
16. The greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediteranean.
17. The "c" that appears before a date, means around.
18. By 600 BC, Greek city-states dotted the coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea and they were called colonies.
19. Ancient Greek city-sates most closely resembled counties like today
20. Oligarchy was a form of government in which small group of citizens dominated.
21. Democracy was a form of government in which decisions were made by the majority of adult males
22. Tyranny was a form of governemnt in which self proclaimed dictator held power.
23. Monarchy is a form of government in which power is helf by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son
24. Spartans used monarchy as there government
25. Spartan males began their military training at age seven.
26. the wealthiest city-state in the ancient world would be Corinth
27. the high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town was known as the acropolis
28. Peloponnese was the southern peninsula where Sparta was located
29. Triremes were ancient fighting ships with three banks of oars, sed to ram or board enemy ships
30. Hoplite was a hevily armed and armored citizen-soldire of ancient Greece


1. This period was called the Dark Ages, and went from 1100- 700 BC
2. The titles of these two stories were called Odyssey and the Iliad
3. derived from the Latin mediterraneus, meaning "inland" or "in the middle of the earth"
4. Prominent and long established Athenina land- owners were called aristocrats. 

Today in Western Civ, Mr. Schick wasnt here again, all we did today, was watch this video and finish answering the questions to it. We did this pretty much all class and it was quite boring if you ask me. The video we were watching was pretty boring if i can say so myself. But other than that we didnt do anything else in class.

Today in Western Civ, we finished watching all of the videos. My partner and I showed ours today and I personally think it was pretty good! We also did the story board thing. We also saw everyone else’s, and even someone from a different class. I think everyone did really well on this project. Like I said in my last blog it didn’t really teach me anything but it was just supposed to be a commercial trying to get you to come, so I don’t know why I would learn much. But anyway good class.

Today in Western Civ, we watched some people’s videos. Most people did there video on Athens which was interesting. I even did mine on Athens, but I couldn’t present mine today because my partner wasn't here, so we have to go tomorrow. We has some technical difficulties and some people couldn’t play there video, so they had to put it on YouTube. The people’s we did watch were actually really good. I honestly didn’t really learn much from people’s presentations, because they were mostly pictures, but it was entertaining. 

Today in West Civ, we didn’t have Mr. Schick, because he was out sick today. We had a sub and we didn’t really do anything. We also didn’t really talk because it was first mod and if we talked to loud we got into trouble. So me and my partner went over our video one more time, and kind of looked at the storyboard thing. I personally think it was extremely hard to do. Like it wasn’t hard, but I just didn’t know what I was doing. Then I kept working on the paper we had to do which I also think is tough. 

Today in West Civ, well Mr. Schick wasnt here, so we had to work on the worksheet and watch the video on our own. This didnt really help because i didnt know how to pick some of the things out and i didnt really get that far. This whole worksheet is hard to me. I think i am really going to have to study hard if i want to get a good great on this test.

Today in West Civ, we watched some of the movie and took some more notes. Again today class was a little shortened because it was Ash Wednesday and we went to church. I think that this video is kind of confusing because i don't really know were to put any of the things. So basically what i mean by that is there are a ton of different terms like Sparta, Athens, and different names that i dont know of and you have to match them with there definitions. It is actually pretty tough.

Today in Human Geo, we we watched a little bit of a video. It was this video on all these different things about the Ancient Greeks. We also got this worksheet that was once a quiz but it would have been a really hard quiz because i didn't know any of the answers. We had a short class today so we didnt really do much other than this.