western civ

Today in class we were assigned to read section three pages 168-177 “The Rise of Christianity”, section four pages 173-177 “The Fall of the Roman Empire”, and section five pages 178-183 “Rome and the Roots of Western Civilization. While we were reading those pages in the textbook Mr. Schick was handing back our scantron and our test packet. I got a 97 percent on the test and I am very proud of my grade. I think that I did pretty well on the test, I only got two questions wrong out of 60 questions, so not bad. We do not have class tomorrow, and our homework was to do the blog which I am doing right now. The sections that we read today were interesting and I am sure that later on in the week we will do a PowerPoint and take detailed notes on what we had just read so that is nice because if you fully didn’t understand what we just read then you will find out when we go over the power point.

Today in class we took the unit test on Rome and I think that I did pretty well on it, the test was also open blog so that make me think that I did pretty good as well. I knew most of the things that I got tested on but I didn’t know some but I found the answers in my blog. After the test, we read section 3 pages 168-172 “The Rise of Christianity”, section 4 pages 173-177 “The Fall of the Roman Empire”, and we read section 5 pages 178-183 “Rome and the roots of Western Civilization. In the sections, it was a lot to read but it had some good information in it. Today is a dress down day and it is also Friday so I think that today is going pretty well and I am excited for the weekend. I am excited to continue to learn about Rome and what happened at their peak and how the roman empire fell.     

Etruscans came from north-central part of the peninsula metalworkers, artists, architects two foundation myths: Virgil’s Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy - sound familiar?); the story of Remus and Romulus Greeks they had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as: religious beliefs alphabet much of their art military techniques and weaponry the Latins! descendants of Indo-Europeans 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 seven hills (esp. Palatine) many streams flowed into the Tiber 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 urban legend says Washington DC was built on a ...