rome

Today in west civ class we went over a power point. The power point was about rome and how the different cultures came together into rome. Latin was the first culture following many around the Mediterranean. Mr.Schick started telling the story if the last king in rome. This was about the "power couple". After this couple ruled the citizens of rome said this will never happen ever again. 

project

Today in west civ we got with our groups to work on our ancient rome project. We are having trouble figuring out what we have to put on our programs for the circus maximus. We are also making a poster of the extra facts that we need to put on our program. 

roman places

Circus Maximus 

• Romulus started the chariot races there, however they were said to be distracting because no one would focus on anything else than the chariot races 
• Races took place on both sides of the Aventine and Palatine hills 
• it is thought to be found in the 6th century by Tarquinius Priscus and the fifth king of Rome 
• There were three fires that burnt the circus Maximus it burnt because it was made out of wood and wood is very flamable 
• There were also other things besides chariot races in the Circus Maximus 
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;idno=ACU3468.0001.001 
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/circusmaximus.html

Today in class we tried researching about four places in Rome. These are all the notes Gab and I found on the Circus Maximus. Furthermore, we also had to cite our sources. This task was very hard and there were no legit websites that could actually be cited. We found a website that was very knowledgeable and had a lot of information, but there were sources they used that we had to then track down. For example the website we were on had a lot of books the author cited that we then would have to find the book and parts of the books so the book could be cited. In conclusion, the research is easy, but citing is very hard. 

friday

Today in west civ class gabi and i started our rome project. Immanuel is in kentucky so we had to work on it without it him. We decided we will do a program for the games in rome. Everyone will get one and as we speak about each fight we will describe who and what goes on with which particular battle. 

wednesday

In west civ class we went over the power point more. In the middle of true class the office called and said we had a special guest. so mr schick went to go get them. he came back dressed up as a rapper. He wrote a rap about rome going to the music for low. It was funny and actually had a lot of fact in rome in it. 

monday

In todays west civ class we started the unit of ancient rome! We took notes in our note book while mr schick was going over a power point. he started going over a legend in ancient rome it was about two brothers that eventually become leaders an done kills the other. 

roman project

Today we found out that we are doing another project. This is going to be on rome italy, We could do it as a group or by our self. So gabi, immanuel, and i are doing food and art of rome. We all are going to do good on this project cause we have a pretty good idea

wednesday class

In west civ class we Talked about our paper. We went over a lot of grammer. This is be cause We did bad on our essays and didn't do grammar check. We were supposed to watch a video but couldnt because the grammer talk was too long. 

first day back

Today is west civ i got into the class room and was really not up fro sitting in my seat so i asked mr schick if i could move and so he said no but someone else switched with me so then he said fine that will work! then we started going over test answers. I was really not up for that because i did very bad on that test and so did everyone else in the class so it was awkward. I hope that we watch  movie soon in mr schticks tv production room because when he gives those test out i do pretty good cause i like watching movies

wednesday

Roman Legion

• 5,000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet)
• the Roman army elite heavy infantry 
• recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
• group of eighty;s a century 
• on horseback is the cavalry 
• shield,sword,dagger,and armor and tunic
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The Punic Wars 

• 264-146 BCE
• Rome vs Cathage
• three wars
• First Punic War (264-241 BCE)
• navel battles for control of the strategically located island of Sicily
• Rome wins this war

second punic war (218-201 BCE)

• 29 year old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible taking Rome
• attacks Rome from the North after crossing Iberia (Spain) and the alps 
• lays siege to much of the peninsula for 15 years, but he never can get to Rome

Third war (149-146 BCE)

• Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
• Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus,and others mercilessly attacked the city 
• Carthage was burned for 17 days the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed 
• when the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold  into slavery
• the rest of Carthage's territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa

test day

Today we had our test on Greece. Im pretty sure i did not do good!Im very disappointed in my self i should have studied! if i get a C will be happy with that. I get too distracted while i was watching the video so i don't think that helped.