Wednesday, April 30, 2014
movie day
Today in west civ we watched a video series on this Roman emperor who was insane. Rome had a huge fire that burned down the whole capital and lasted for 6 days. After the fire the emperor decided that they would build in the same spot but make all the buildings stronger and out of marble and stone. Rome did not have enough money to do this at the time and everyone thought he was crazy for thinking this was possible. It turns out he was crazy and he ran out of money a quarter of the way through the project. So he thought of a place in Rome that would still have money and he came to the temples. They had all the money that they offer to the gods. He sent in people to take all the money from the temple and from the gods. After he did this every one hated him and the senate decided that they were going to kill him. One of the senates slaves heard that his master was going to kill the emperor so he told the emperor. Than a couple members of the senate were tortured until they told what they were going to do.
Friday, April 25, 2014
A Rome Video
Today in west civ we watched a video on how Rome took over all of Gaul. Gaul had tons of troops but Caesar still won the battle. The Romans were a much more civilized people with better weapons. They also had a Calvary where Gaul only had regular troops on foot. Caesar, after the battle was over, returned home and started to convince people he should be their leader. He gave a speech where he said that he would look out for the poor people and restore Rome back to the way it was where the aristocrats did not have all the money.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
More About Rome
Today in west civ we talked about Julius Cesar and how he took over most of the known world at the time. He was a very smart person, he knew that he had to get a large amount of people on his side. These people would help him take over all the land he had earned for Rome.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Shared the project
Today in west civ my group got to share our project, I don't think that it went as well as i would have hoped but it went okay. Between the three of us the work was split up pretty evenly so it was not that hard to do. It will hopefully help my grade and not hurt it. The project was actually pretty fun because we were able to be creative with what we could make, we all did not have to do the same thing.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
More Rome Notes
Today in west civ we took some notes on Rome. We talked about the Roman legion which was 5000 solders that were deployed in certain places. The cavalry were the troops that rode horses in the battle. A group of eighty is a century. Hannibal was a Carthaginian war leader who had an idea to come into Rome by the north instead of by sea. His plan was very good but proved not to work. A latifundia is a huge amount of land that was bought from all the local farmers in an area.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
The project
Today in west civ we talked about the project for Rome. We got a rubric on the project also and we have to write a one page paper on what we are doing and some facts about the buildings. We have three people in our group and there are three different things that there is to do so it works out good. I am going to build the actual building, Logan is going to make a map of all the important buildings, and Sam is going to write the paper on Roman buildings and how they were built. We are going to do all the research together.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Notes on Rome
The Romans were the first to make brick roads, which made it easy for people to get to and from places. They were also the first to put good use to the arch, the Colosseum was made almost completely out of arches. The Romans also made the aqueduct out of arches which carried water to the center of town. The Patricians were the rich people in Rome, they were the ones who were in charge of things in Rome. The Assembly was there to provide rights for the common people. The twelve tables were lists of all the laws that the Romans had. This let people know what the laws were so that they knew what they could and could not do. The dictator in Rome was a person that was elected to run Rome when a crisis happened. They wanted only one person to run the Roman empire when a crisis happened so that they could get the empire back to normal as fast as possible.
THE PUNIC WARS
who won what started them
THE FIRST PUNIC WAR-
- Carthage and Rome fought.
- Rome won this war.
- It started because the Romans were afraid that the Carthaginians might attack them so they attacked them first.
THE SECOND PUNIC WAR-
- Carthage and Rome fought.
- Rome won.
- Hannibal, a Carthaginian, started the second Punic war by invading the town north of the river Iver to purposefully provoke the Romans.
THE THIRD PUNIC WAR-
- The war was between Carthage and Rome.
- Rome won.
- The Romans knew that attacking Carthage would be an easy war that would give them lots of money so they raised anarmy and attacked Carthage.
THE PUNIC WARS
who won what started them
THE FIRST PUNIC WAR-
- Carthage and Rome fought.
- Rome won this war.
- It started because the Romans were afraid that the Carthaginians might attack them so they attacked them first.
THE SECOND PUNIC WAR-
- Carthage and Rome fought.
- Rome won.
- Hannibal, a Carthaginian, started the second Punic war by invading the town north of the river Iver to purposefully provoke the Romans.
THE THIRD PUNIC WAR-
- The war was between Carthage and Rome.
- Rome won.
- The Romans knew that attacking Carthage would be an easy war that would give them lots of money so they raised an
Friday, April 4, 2014
Working On The Project
Today in west civ we worked on our project, we just planed out what we are going to do. We are going to make a map and a building. We will show where all the important buildings are on the map. With the building we will show the architecture that the Romans used and show how they would have built it and what it looked like. We are going to build the Pantheon, it was one of the main public places.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Roman Notes
Today in west civ we took some notes on Rome, we talked about this weird story that involved two young kids that grew up with a wolf for a mom and they feed off the wolves breast milk. We were able to talk with our partners on how we are making the project, we still don't really know how we are going to divide up the work.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Mr. Schick's rap song
Today in west civ Mr. Schick showed us his rap song about Rome. It was surprisingly not bad he sang it for us in front of the class. Than after that he assigned us a cool project where we have to make something that has to do with Rome. I am making a model of a Roman building, you can also make a map, cook Roman food, dress up and a lot of others.
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