2-27

Today in class some people, including me, finished their tests. I fixed a lot of answers, hopefully that will increase my score a little bit. But mainly, we worked on our study guides and prepared for the next unit. There's a lot of important dates, and important names to remember. It's going to be difficult, but I think i'll be able to stick through it and get a decent grade on it.

2-25

Today in class we took a test on Lo1 and Lo2. It wasn't very difficult, but I think my overall grade is a B.

2-22

Today in class we talked more about Lo2 and focused more a little on it because we have a test tomorrow on it. I used to think Sparta was a democracy, but it is actually an oligarchy, Sparta is the most wealthiest after 300 years because of oversea trade. Also, Athens was the power in Greece and most influential. Greece produced and traded wine, weapons, good metalworks, oil, and pottery. We learned two important words as well. They were aristocrats  and demos. Aristocrats are people who own land, and demos are middle working class who work for the aristocrats usually. Lastly, the aristocrats and the demos became allis! In 500 B.C. Greek produced the first democracy.

2-21

In Greece you would join the army because you wanted to, not because you were forced or asked to, everyone felt it was an obligation, and it was important to protect their country, family and friends. Also, Sparta was independent and isolated. They never relied on other countries for trading, or seeing how they do things.
There were four types of governments. Oligarchy, which is a group of people who makes decision. A monarchy, who has kings who make the rules and lead the country, and a democracy which has the people vote for the leader and also decisions. Lastly, a tyranny which is a country who has a dictator.

2-20

Today in class we viewed a presentation that Mr.Schick came up with, the presentation is on his website, and my notes focus in detail on the important slides. One important date out of many was 4,000 B.C, and that is when farming and village life spred through the continent of Europe. Another is in 3500 B.C, the population increased and the increased wealth led to complex religious structures. The barbarians came in contact with civilization in 2000 BC-1000 AD. That is very important because that was one of the very first structured civilizations, and that is what we base society off of today, and it helped us become the structure we are today. The first time the Europeans came in contact with the Greeks was labeled as a "western" civilization. A western civilization is an emerged civilization.

2-19-12

I wasn't in class today because I am in Florida. I also feel a little sick. I will be in school tomorrow though, I think we are following up on the presentations, and also working on our projects.

2-14

Today in class we worked more on out power points. Again we assigned each other parts in the small groups. We all were pitching in ideas about how to evenly split up the project, so we decided to do two slides each. We finished up and touched up on Lo1, and started Lo2. My part specifically was the "minoan" civilization in Greece. The part that I found the most interesting, and maybe want to do further research on in the future is the "minotaur" which the King Minos's half bull, half human son. In honor of the minotaur, Athens has bull racing as their anual sport.