Today in Western Civ, we FaceTimed Mr. Schick's daughter who is in France. We FaceTimed her because it was her birthday. After that we worked on our power points a little bit. Our group already has 4 slides on pericles and the golden age. This is going to be a fun project and can't wait to get into it more. Here are the facts I gathered.

Pericles and his early years

• Pericles was born in 495 B.C.
• Xanthippus, his father was a hero of the Persian war.
• His mother was a member of a noble family.
• He started his career in the law courts.
• Born into a wealthy family, had good education.
• Lover of philosophy, art, and literature.

3.11.15

Today in Western Civ, we mainly talked about the upcoming projects. We have to make a powerpoint and write a paper in our groups. Mr. Schick let us pick our own group and I'm with Ellee and Kendall. We are doing a fun project. We also had a pop quiz and I got a 90%

Today in Western Civ, we talked a little more about Ancient Greece. We talked about the other sea called the Ionian Sea which is south of the Adriatic. They had Arable land which means it can be farmed very easily. The greeks diet consisted of  grains, grapes, olives, but that's not everything. They had nice weather all year round, and colonization was key. A group we talked about is Mycenaeans.  This group started in 200 BCE, located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 foot thick wall. Their kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE, and they controlled trade. 1400 BCE, they invaded Crete. Another group we talked about was the Sea people and Dorians. They invaded Mycenae in 1200 BCE. The Dorians weren't advanced and they had no writing and the writing disappeared for 400 years. We don't know who sea people are because of no writing. The last person we talked about is Homer the storyteller. They formed during the Greek Dark Ages, and taught people about this. The Lliad and the Odyssey are by Homer. There has been a question if Homer actually existed which is called the "Homeric question". At the end of class, Mr. Schick read us a little bit of the Odyssey.

Plato

Plato:
He was a very important Greek philosopher who lived from 427 BC and 328 BC. His approach to philosophy is about that ideas  aren't authentically know unless you speak them. The writing he his know for is mostly about dialogues, and this makes his reading way cooler in style. As a person he taught Aristotle, and was a student of Socrates. He is know today for all his ideas in his works which made him the kinda of guy he is.

Cyber day assignment 3/5/15

Temple of Hera
-Located on the coast of Sicily
-It was founded by colonists from Megara in the 7th centruy
-The colonists built it where it is because the land there is really fertile and ideal for agriculture.

Temple of Apollo at Didyma
-Built around 300 BC
-Located in Didyma, Turkey
-The design of this structure is know as dipteral, which refers to the two sets of columns surrounding the interior section.

The Parthenon
-Buit in 447 BC
-Located in Athens, Greece
-People consider this structure as their patron

Pre cyber day

Today in Western Civ, we talked about tomorrows cyber day. We talked about if we would have school tomorrow and Friday because of the potential snow. Mr. Schick also told us about what kind of assignments we should expect, and we also talked about plagiarism and how kids are doing this in school. Ellee and I got into an argument about ghosts and if they are real or not. They are not real at all, but she denied that.

Ancient Greece

Today in Western Civ, we talked about Ancient Greece. It was pretty interesting with all the things Mr. Schick taught us. I learned that Mesopotamia's river's are the Tigris and Euphrates, Egypt's river is the Nile River, India's river is the Indus river, and China's river is the Huang He River. More facts that we learned is that 1400 islands off the coast of Greece. It is considered a peninsula because it has water on all three sides. This is important because then you can trade, build ships, fish, etc. The most important fact that we learned was that Mediterranean means middle of earth. A cool fact we learned was that it was faster to sail around Greece that it was to go right across it. The Adriatic sea is west of Greece, and the Aegean sea is east of Greece, but these two seas are part of the Mediterranean, but just separated into two sections. The Island of Crete is south of Greece, and the capital of Greece is Athens.