Alexander the Great

Today we continued on with out presentations of Alexander the Great's life. We started off with my group, section six. My partner Max wasn't there so I had to present all by myself. I talked about the invasion of India and the revolt of the Macedonian army. Once I finished my power point we moved onto section 7, Alexander's Death. There are multiple theories of how he died such as, his wine being poisoned, alcohol poisoning, and malaria. He was only 32 when he died. Once we finished their presentation we moved on to Alexander's battle strategy. After finishing the power points we started watching the video. We watched Alexander break his horse at the age of 12. We finished watching that in time for the bell to ring.

Teaching Each Other

Wednesday we all had to create power points that were due today. The point of them were to teach each other what we read from websites Mr.Schick recommended for our topic. There were seven groups that had to present on all about Alexander the Great. The first group was about Alexander's parents and we got all the way to his battles against Persia. The last group to go was group 5, I'm number 6 so I will be starting next week. I will post the notes on a different blog tonight.

Partner Presentations

FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!! We got assigned  numbers and were matched up with whoever had the same number. Then we were privileged enough to get a topic on Alexander's life, my partner, Max, and I got India, the invasion and revolution. We got right to work once we were told our partners and topic. Mr.Schick pulled up his blogger account to show us the Google docs paper he created for the project, he graciously gave us a list of website and pointed us in the right direction and so we were off!

Hellenistic Era

Today we got a lot done, we went to page 79 and Mr.Schick called on me to read the first two paragraphs of the introduction. We discussed why the Athens lost the war against the Spartans. I said that they were too hubris which means cocky and also they didn't have good leadership and strategies for war. Then we talked about Alexander the great and the Hellenistic Era which was the time between when the Macedonian king died and Alexander the great. We kinda got off topic a few times but overall we have a very informative class.

Test Taking

Today we had the great privilege of taking the Chapter 4 Test! Thankfully we were honored by being allowed to use our personal blogs during the test. I thought we might be able to do that so I put my notes from the movie up along with the important dates from the chapter review. All in all I thought the test was fairly easy but it did have a few challenging questions. I feel confident that I passed and hopefully I will get a good grade for the work I did. 

The Greater Greece: The Hellenistic Era, 400-30 B.C

• Hellenistic: refers to the "international" period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule 
• time between the death of the Macedonian king and Alexander the Great
• 359 B.C King Philip II of Macedonia comes to power; moves to control Greece 

The Athenians lost the war against Sparta because after they won the battle against Persia they insisted that the Athenians’ allies pay to build more triremes, state of the art war ships, even though they were not at war with anyone and did not see themselves going to war. The allies of Athens did not want to pay any longer for ships they were not using so they asked Sparta for help to put an end to it. This lead to war and even though Athens lost to Sparta; Sparta lost a lot of resources and soldiers in the fight. All in all Athens lost because they were too cocky after they won the war against the best and strongest empire. They thought they could defeat anyone they came up against. They also should not have been forcing people to pay for war ships that were not needed. If the Athens stayed humble and continued on with their lives they would not have caused a war and been defeated. 

Chapter 4 Review

Important Dates

1600 – 1100 BC: Mycenaean civilization

1200s BC- The Trojan War and Destruction of Troy

1150 – 750 BC: Dark Ages

776 BC: First Olympic Games

750 – 700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

621 BC: Draco’s law were written

508 BC: Isagoras was in charge and the citizens over threw,

490 BC: Battle of Marathon, first invasion of Greece

480 BC: Persians destroyed Athens and the Battle of Salamis where Athens won the battle 

461 – 429 BC: the age of Pericles

447 – 438 BC: time it took to build the Parthenon in Athens

431 – 404 BC: Peloponnnian war

399 BC: Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants

Governments 

Monarchy: A sovereign head of state, esp. a king, queen, or emperor

Democracy:  A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives            

Oligarchy: A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution                     

Aristocracy: The highest class in certain societies, esp. those holding hereditary titles or offices