Schicks Rap Notes

Etruscans

• Come from the north-central part of the peninsula.
• Metalworker, artists, architects.
• Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (Where Aeneas escapes from Troy- sound familiar)?, plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Who Else Settled in Rome?

• Greeks
• They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea.
• Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
• 1. Religious beliefs
• 2. Alphabet
• 3. Much of their art
• 4. Military techniques and weaponry.

The First that settled There

• The Latins
• Descendants of Indo-Europenas.
• Settled on the banks of the Tiber.
• Situated so trading-ships but not war fleets-could navigate as far as Rome, but no further.
• A commercial port, but not susceptible to attack.
• and.... built on 7 hills (esp. Palatine).

They drained a Swamp

• Many stream flowed into the Tiber River.
• There was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills.
• Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber.

Tarquin is proud, but got a Little Loud

• Lucius Tarquins Superbus.
• the 7th and final king of Rome.
• Known as Tarquin the Proud (Often referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant).
• A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word.
• The peoples shock at this horrible behavior and this horrible family made them NEVER want to be subject to the rule of kings EVER again-this was an attitude that lasted for centuries.

Final Day for Project Groups and Topics

Today in class we prepared for our final day of groups and our topic. My group is Tucker, Sam, and Callie. Our project is to build the a scale model of the Roman Pantheon with a poster board explaining it and everything. Sam and Callie are working on the poster-board and Ticker and I are working on the building of the Pantheon. We are going to use Popsicle sticks, hot glue, Styrofoam, clay(maybe), and paper mashee (maybe). This list might change in the future when we are actually working on our project. Cant wait to get started.

4 Notes From Today's Class

The Circus Maximus

• The origins of the Circus Maximus go back to the sixth century BC when Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome, created a track between the Palatine and Aventine hills.
• The first permanent starting gates were created in 329 BC. In 174 BC the gates were rebuilt and seven wooden eggs were placed on top of the spina, the central wall in the arena. 
• The Circus Maximus was the largest stadium in ancient Rome. 
• At one point the Circus could seat 250,000 people, one quarter of Rome's population.
• http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/circusmaximus.htm

Colisseum

• Located just east of the Roman Forum, the massive stone amphitheater known as the Colosseum was commissioned around A.D. 70-72 by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty as a gift to the Roman people.
• Measuring some 620 by 513 feet (190 by 155 meters), the Colosseum was the largest amphitheater in the Roman world.
• Inside, the Colosseum had seating for more than 50,000 spectators, who may have been arranged according to social ranking but were most likely packed into the space like sardines in a can (judging by evidence from the seating at other Roman amphitheaters). 
• The Colosseum saw some four centuries of active use, until the struggles of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual change in public tastes put an end to gladiatorial combats and other large public entertainments by the 6th century A.D. Even by that time, the arena had suffered damaged due to natural phenomena such as lightning and earthquakes. 
• http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/colosseum

Aqueducts

• The Roman aqueducts not only provided drinking water for the Romans but indoor sewer systems that carried water away from the city and also supplied the bath houses with ample water, where the inhabitants of Ancient Rome spent so much of their leisure time. 
• The bulk of the Roman water system ran below the city, burrowed through 260 miles of rock, and about 30 miles of above ground bridges and cross ways (the arches).
•  The entire system relied on various gradients and gravity to maintain a continuous flow.
• Maintenance of the ducts was a constant job being tended to by first, a paid curator, and then often labor slaves.
• http://www.rome.info/ancient/aqueducts/

Roman Forum

• They built a sewer, the 'Cloaca Maxima', to drain water from the marshlands of the valley between the Palatine, Capitoline and Esquiline hills to the Tiber river which became the Roman Forum.
• From then on the area became a center of activity and it was the political heart of Rome until the fall of the Roman Empire more than one thousand years later.
• It was the site of the first forum. Here, triumphal processions took place, elections were held and the Senate assembled.
• Until 509 BC, when Rome became a republic, the city was reigned by an Etruscan dynasty of Tarquin Kings which built the Roman Forum.
• http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/forumromanum.htm

Start of the Project

Today in class, we went over what we are going to do for our project. Tucker and i are making a Colosseum out of Popsicle sticks, hot glue, Styrofoam, clay, and maybe paper mashe. Sammi and Callie are making a poster board of the Colosseum explaining what it was used for and etc. Hopefully we get a great grade on this so it will bring my semester 2 grade up. Tucker and I are going to work really hard on this and i feel good about Sammi and Callie's work that they are going to do. We are getting the supplies this week and working on it hopefully starting Monday next week. I hope we do good!

Part 3 of Ancient Rome Notes

Here are the notes!..

• They drained a swamp for Rome.
• Tarquin the proud was a bad tyrant.
• Tarquin's son was guilty of raping an older women (Lucricia).
• Tarquin didn't care. he didn't punish him.
• She committed suicide after the rape.
• The Roman people were outraged; They ran Tarquin and his family out of Rome. 
• After that, they took 3 different governments and combined them all to make their republic.
• A Roman legion had 5,000 people. The legion was divided into century's consisting of 80 soldiers.
• Carthage is in Africa.
• Conflict started about how people wanted to control the passages of trade and the coast.
•  Romans took Sicily from Carthage. 
• Hannibal wanted to take over Rome.
• Hannibal attacked from the "back door" of Rome.
• They never took Rome.
• Romans came down to Carthage and absolutely annihilated them.

Part 2 of Ancient Rome Notes

Republican Values

• Romans had strong values and a particular connection to the Gods Jupiter (Zeus), Juno (Hera), and Minerva (Athena).
• Romans believed that it was every citizens duty to participate in government and War, excluding women.
• The Roman family and clan (group of related family) was paternalistic abd the "family father" had complete control.
• Married women were also revered in Rome as "matrons."
• Pater familias is the head of the family (men).
• Roman Expansion (1 of 3).
• Allies and Colonies
• Rome was a military culture and made a number of improvements to the older Greek tactics which made their armies nimble and effective.
• When Rome conquered a neighboring territory, they often extended Roman rights and privileges to the conquered people, absorbing them into Rome itself.
• Non-Romans in Italy, anxious to become Roman citizens, were incentivized to become allies of Rome.
• Tarquin the proud was the leader (monarch); idiot to his people. They overthrew him.
• They new form of government was a republic which is part democracy; aristocracy, monarchy.
• Two consuls was a part of their government.

Notes on Ancient Rome

Here are the notes I took in class today......

• 9th century= Etruscan's, Greeks, and Latins move into Italy.
• Greeks had colonies on the Tiber River.
• Remus and Romulus were brothers.
• River carried them to safety, a she-wolf saved them and raised them.
• Romulus killed Remus over an argument about where to found a city.
• The Etruscan people, originally from the east, had settled in the north of Italy and were an early influence on the Romans.
• The Romans were also influenced by the Greek settlements to their south and learned the alphabet and city-state organization from them.
•  The Roman Republic: The Senate and the people
• Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a counsel of elders called the Senate.
• C. 500 B.C. the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a "Republic" 
• Since the senate was populated only by Patricians (aristocratic men), the Plebeians (ordinary citizens fought for a vote in Romes government.
• Each year the Senate elected two rulers, "consuls", who each served a term of one year.
• As in the Greek city-states , the Romans would appoint a single dictator in times of war or conflict.
• Eventually the plebeians gained power in the Senate by electing their own magistrates, called "tribunes."
• In 450 B.C., the laws of Rome were codified and written into the "Twelve Tablets."
• The "mixed" government of Patricians and Plebeians had many of the checks and balances that modern democracies have today.

Another Project 4/17/15

Today in class, Mr. Schick gave us different options to choose from for our next project for Ancient Rome. My group decided to do the Roman Gods and dress up like one of them. After we dress up like one of them, we are going to do a big poster board about our Gods and explain all about them. My group is Tucker, Sammi, Callie, and I. I think this is going to pull our grades up a lot which will help so much. Before, we were going to dress up as different social classes, but being one kind of group (just Gods)made the project easier for us. I hope everything goes well and i look forward to all the classes!

Weird Video?

Today in class we watched a video about Plato's Allegory. There were many different lessons learned in this video, but our class couldn't really figure the whole lesson out. After the video, we discussed the main topic of the video with Mr. Schick. We also talked about the effect technology has on the people and how the government kind of "brainwashes" the youth. Also there were mentions about ISIS and how they don't agree with Christianity and they want everyone to be like them and their religion. I think the message was that once you explore new things and you go back to the original things in you life, some people may judge you on what you think after those experiences.

Grammar!

Today in class, we talked about grammar and teachers in college that expect great grammar. We also talked about the video we were supposed to watch today. We are going to watch the video tomorrow. We also reviewed our paper and talked about what we did well and what we did bad. I'm excited for tomorrows class and im anticipating the video tomorrow. I hope its a good, detailed video. Ill be back tomorrow.

Test Today!

Today we had our Ancient Greece test. I was actually sort of disappointed that i got an 82% on it. I studied really hard and worked really hard too. The last part where you had to match the dates and as well as matching Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates was the part that got me my bad grade. Hopefully ill do way better on the next test and get an A on my Semester 2 grade. I'm looking forward to the next place we study. I'm pretty sure it's the Romans, so that will be very interesting. Anyways im going to start my Easter break!