Movie on Greeks Part 6

   Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ class, we continued to watch the movie on the Greeks. Today we learned that Themistocles was the savior of the city of Athens and he recognized that the Persian Empire may try again to attack them and they may not be so lucky this time. In the straits of Salamas, Athens was able to trap Persia. A delian is a bunch of city-states.  Achilles had a fatal flaw. When he was younger, he was dipped into something that would prevent him from getting hurt. Every part of his body was dipped into it except his heal. Later in life, he got stabbed right in that heal that had not been dipped in. This was his fatal flaw. The Greeks began the idea of “gods.” Phales wrote the first book about navigation. Socrates believed that the unexamined life was not worth living. The plague killed nearly 1/3 of Athens and Pareclees died from the plague in 429 BC. 

Movie on Greeks Part 5

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ class, we kept on watching the movie on the Greeks. We are at the part in the movie where it tells us about how Persian Empire in the early 5^th century. It was the most powerful and it stretched from India in the east and in Turkey in the west. There was a Persian tyranny, who was King Darius and was known as the great one. People had to cover their mouths when speaking to him because if they did not it would pollute the air he was breathing. One difference between the Greeks and Persians was that the Greeks had slaves and the Persians did not. Athenians were more about freedom and the Persians were more about obedience and discipline. Athens standing army was called Helots. Athens was able to beat the Persians and the Democracy held out. The Persian armed men were mercenaries. No one thought that Athens could win.

Movie on Greeks Part 4

Today in Mr. Schick's West Civ class we continued to watch the movie on Greeks. Mr. Schick wasn't here on Friday like me so we kind of needed to get caught up on where we left. I went on the Honors English field trip to Washington D.C. and Mr. Schick chaperoned Senior Retreat. This is the last notes I had before I was absent.  Cleisthenes established the first form of voting. He had the people of Athens place white pebbles in if they wanted it to pass and black pebbles if they wanted to pass on it. An agora was established so that someone could just stand up on something and say what their opinion was. In 490 B.C., Phidipitee’s quest for survival began. He was running away from Persian rule and ran 140 miles in two days. Only to be turned down by the Spartans and failed the mission. 

Movie on Greeks Part 3

Today in Mr. West Civ class, we continued to watch the movie on Greeks. We came to the part in the video where they talk about how the Olympics came about. On Mount Olympus in 776 B.C. were the first Olympics. A couple years later, anyone could participate in the Olympics. Isagorous was competing against Cleisthenes in the Olympics. He knew this was going to be hard so he went to the Spartans for help on defeating him and then he could take over Athens. He was able to defeat Cleisthenes so he had to take everything and everyone and leave Athens. He was ostracized, which means that they threw him out of the town. Now Isagorous was in charge with the Spartans. The commoners in 508 B.C. staged a revolution against Isagorous and the Spartans, who were forced to surrender. This was the first recorded revolution. After this, they turned back to Cleisthenes. 

Greek Movie Part 2

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ class we continued to watch the movie about the Greeks and their early civilization. We came to the part in the movie where they talk about tyrants. A tyrant occurs when one ruler seizes total control. We also were introduced to a new character named Pisistratus. While in control, he reduced taxes and introduced free loans to people of Athens. It was known that the city of Athens produced the absolute best olives. We also learned in the movie a little bit about the Red Light District. This was the place where the prostitutes worked. Pottery makers were at the bottom of the social status. Pisistratus died in 527 B.C. and then his son Hippias took over rule. Hippias’ brother got murdered which caused Hippias to be paranoid because he thought he was next. He was then drove out of rule by Cleisthenes who took over Athens. 

Movie on Greeks

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ class, we watched a movie about the Greeks. In the movies was a man named Socrates. We learned a lot about Socrates in last semester’s Human Geo class. He was an ugly man. In 508 BC, pandemonium erupted in Athens. There was a man named Cleisthenes, who was brought up to be a ruler. He saw that these people that he ruled over should have freedom and the chance to choose their leader. Cleisthenes was born in 570 BC. Also in the movie was a term called an aristocrat. An aristocrat is a rich landowner. In ancient Greece, reading and writing was a rare skill to have.  ¾ of Greece is mountainous which forced the Greeks to travel by water and limited their agriculture. It is impossible for a single ruler to rule all of Greece. This formed city-states. Spartan men were raised to be military men. These men spent most of their time in the barracks. The barracks are military housing. They wore red cloaks to blend in with blood. Death was nothing compared to the food they had to eat or so it has been said. Cleisthenes was inspired by ancient stories and myths.

Filling Out Study Guide

Today in Mr. Schick's West Civ class, we basically worked by ourselves on an assignment that Mr. Schick told us to do. The assignment was to start filling out the study guide for chapter 4 which was kind of weird because we have not even started chapter 4 but I guess it makes sense of you really think about it. Well that is basically all we did during class today because one person had to take the test that we took yesterday so we all just worked quietly.