Today in class, we literally did nothing at all. I honestly don't know why we did not do anything, but it was really nice. So we just sat in class and talked. Then in the last 15 minutes or so we were allowed to go to the cafeteria. It was actually a fun day.

Today in West Civ, we took notes, and talked about Julius Ceaser. 

Notes: Pompey------

           Crassus------       First Triumvirate 

           J.C. ---------

Proletarian- regular people who found themselves with ought property. 

Rubicon- the river, marks the northern part of the territory

-Ceaser sided with poor citizens 

triumvirate- an alliance of three politicians that enabled them to control the Republic's decision making 

                              -with another former henchman of Sulla, Marcus Crassus (dominant political force in Rome) 

-Once he crossed the Rubicon, he couldn't go back

-When someone has to make a big decision it can be called making a Rubicon 

-in 60 B.C, he began to collaboarte with Pompey, and officer promoted by Sulla who conquered many eastern Mediterranean lands

-with peoples help, Ceasar won an appointment as procunsel of a providence that included the southern regions of Gaul, a territory stretching all the way from nortther Italy and the Mediterannean coast to the Rhine River and the Atlantic Ocean 

-The Gaulish tribes outside the Roman- ruled areas were powerful enough they might one day become dangerous to Rome and were wealthy enough to be a tempting target. 

-Caesar then killed Pompey in Egypt

-Caesar moved swiftly to make himself the supreme ruler of the Republic 

-Caesar then became a Tribune 

- was named supreme pontiff 

-Caesar is an aristocrat

-He was also in the Senate 

-He had himself named dictator for a ten day term 

-Caesar showed respect to the senate, but didn't treat it well

-Caesar used his powers to fix problems in Rome

-Caesar gave land to the loyal soldiers

-extended roman citizenship 

-once he defeated the other places he would make the defeated people his people

-The senate was his only enemy 

-he was doing what the assembly wanted him to

-army loved him, assembly loved him, people loved him 

-senate decides they have had enough 

-Senators, March 15, invited him into senate, they all wore togas, pulled out long daggers, stabbed him to death right in the middle of the senate chambers 

-senators knew they were doing something dangerous, passed the knives around, and they all stabbed him

-Caesar got stabbed 23 times 

Today, we finished the projects finally. Someone today made stuff with clay, and the other made some food. After we finished the projects we started reading from the text book. We didn't really take any notes down today. We did talk about some vocab words like proletarian, which is when normal people would loose there land. If we do take any notes i will past them below this.

Today in West Civ, we watched more presentations. I really liked the food presentations best. I think these presentations, but they were kind of difficult to do/ make. Not everyone got to present today, so we have to do presentations again tomorrow. Actually, we will finish the presentations, on Friday, because we dont have class tomorrow. 

Today in Western Civ Caroline Barwick and presented our projects. We made a pie for the class, and I think it went really well. I personally didn’t like the pie we made, but I think everyone else seemed too. We also brought fruit and apples, and I also think everyone like that too. Then we watched some other presentations, which were all really good. I think everyone took a lot of time to do these projects, and they were all really good.

Today in Western Civ, we took a test and i did not do as well as i wanted to. I thought i would do so much better, but i did not. Other than that, we reviewed the test before we took it.

Today we took more notes today

Roman Legion
legion-5000 men
century- 80 men
infantry- calvary

Punic Wars
1. Sicily
2. Hannibal
3. Sack Carthage

Rome v. Carthage
-lets just lay it to waste
-they just attacked
-"destroyed all the crops and sewed salt into the earth so nothing would grow"
Hannibal- 26 year old brilliant guy
-Carthage is located in North Africa
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Today in West Civ, we did a review. Basically we went over all the notes we took, and just reviewed it. We also took some notes that i will be posting in the end of this blog. Other than the notes we took we didn't do much else, we are basically just reviewing for the test in Friday.
                      

Assembly- house were plebeians had representation

Tribunes- elected by plebeians to serve in senate

Senate was only made of tribunes

When the united states formed there government they looked at the romans did there's and then we kind of did the same thing but changed it a little

 -rome won the first punic war

1. How did Geography affect the development of Rome?  Rome had a good location, they were on seven hills, on a river,  which gave them the chance to control all of Italy.
2. How did the Etruscans influence the development of Rome?  They Developed an alphabet, and arches
3. Which were the main groups that competed for power in the early Roman Republic?  The Nobles and the Common people
4. What is the significance of the twelve Tables in Roman Law?  It was the set of rules that said that all free citizens were protected by law.
5. How did Rome regain control of Italy after the sacking of the city by the Gauls? They defeated them
                      -Gauls French, French Gauls

Today in West Civ, we bascially just took notes in the book. We basically just read the book, and underlined things that seemed important. It was kind of the same notes that we took on Wednesday so i am not going to write them all down, but that is basically what we did today.

Today in West Civ we basically just took notes. I will be pasting the notes right now so i can study from my blog.-2 Main groups who settles in Rome, Italy

*-The very first people to settle in Rome were the Latin's

-the Etruscans and the Greeks were the second 2

-on the Tiber River, seven hills, good for transportation, drinking water

-thought in the middle of the world, thought they were in a perfect location, on the water, in the hills thought they couldn’t go wrong

-one of the first things they did when they became more situated was they drained part of the land that was swampy wet, and not good to build things on- very effective since they did this they were able to build more

• Diverted the flow from river to bigger river
• Building, dam, canals

*-Tarquin the Proud- last king that they saw in Rome

-didn’t feel like he had to listen to people, didn’t listen to anyone

-don’t forget about Tarquin the Proud

Res publica- Latin for "the peoples business"

-word republic comes from this

*Republic

1. Democracy
2. Monarchy
3. Aristocracy, like the senate

-instead of a king there would be 2 consuls

3 forms of government

Judicial

Legislative- Congress- senate, house of representatives

Executive- president

-Romans had 300 senators back then, we have 100 now

-438 house of representatives, today,

-every state as a bunch of house of reps

• California, New York

Plebeians- regular people

Patricians- rich people, land, money

Slaves- almost a third of population

 

Today in Western Civ, we found out that we will be doing a project on Rome. Thank God we got to pick our partners because I like working with partners who I chose. But I think for my group we might do some kind of cooking thing and possibly a drawing or painting. I am not really sure yet what we are exactly going to do, but me and my partner will figure it out. That is basically all we did.