today Mr. Schick took us outside for class! we went over our homework assignment from last night.

ROMES EMPIRE DECLINED AND FELL

1. They faced poor harvests, disruption of trade, no more plunder from wars, Gold and silver drain inflation, and crushing tax burden

2. The Roman soldiers started fighting strictly for money and not for patriotism. The empire started to recruit Barbarians, who accepted lower pay but couldn't be trusted.

3. Constantine brought Christianity to the empire.  He also granted the Christians and all men freedom to follow the religion they chose. 

4. The Germanic tribes invaded the empire because the Huns began to move west, and they were afraid of the Huns. So destroying everything it their path, the Huns moved westward. The empire was unable to fight back because they were so disorganize and could not muster a medium sized army together.

5. Pros

-he restored the faith in the ancient gods of Rome

-granted freedom to all men to choose their own religion

-he beat the inflation

Cons

none! 

today we traded papers with people in our class. I traded with Vinny. His paper was good! I hope to do good on mine because it's 100 points.

Mr. Schick wasn't in class today, so we worked quietly on our 100 point paper. Our paper is about the differences between the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic.  I hope i do good on it!

Today we took a test on Rome!

Notes form Test

Religious troubles

• Christianity and Judism: monotheistic
• Romans had many gods, plus at times the emperor was viewed as a god
• AD 66: group of Jews called the Zealots tried to rebel, but Roman troops put them down and burned their temple
• The western wall today is the holiest of all Jewish shrines
• Half a million Jews died in the rebellion 
• Romans were harsh toward those who would not worship emperor
• especially Christians, who were viewed as followers of a new, upstart religion 
• often used for "entertainment" purposes in the Colosseum (defenseless against lions) 
• Despite the oppression, Christianity grew quickly - by AD 200,  around 10 percent of the people in the Roman empire were Christians 
• 
  

5/16/11

Roman Empire

• Octavian-AKA Caesar Augustus
• Begins Pax Roma-pd of peace and prosperity
• Built roads, aqueducts
• set up civil service to take care of roads, grain supple and postal service
• Augustus dies age 76 AD 14, and passes power to Tiberius
• emperor when Jesus was born 
• Jesus was a roman citizen, and a practicing Jew 
• at 30, he began his ministry (AD 31-33)
• preaching to the poor in the empire, and reaching out to outsiders
• Statements like "my kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans nervous, and they began to plan his execution
• governor of the roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion
• Paul is instrumental in telling the world about Jesus' life, death, resurrection and message
• he travels far and wide: Cyprus, Anatolia, Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, Rome, Jerusalem, and maybe Spain and Britain
• he writes letters to many of those he spole to, these epistles are a part of the New Testament
• if not for the efforts of Paul, it is likely that Jesus remains an obscure preacher, instead of a central figure of the world's largest religions 
• The 100: A ranking of the most influential persons in History
• Muhammad
• Sir Isaa Newtown
• Jesus
• Buddha
• Confucius
• St. Paul of Tarsus
• As Augustus' stepson and adopted son, Tiberius succeeded Octavian
• although a great general, he was dark, somber, reclusive, and reluctant emperor 
• he referred to the Senate as "men fit to be slaves"
• Germanicus started out as Tiberius ally, asince he quelled a legion mutiny, but when it looked like he would succeed Tiberius, he got paranoid and had Germanicus killed
• died in AD 37 at the age of 77, giving way to....Caligula
• Good start
• in addition to being Germanicus' son, he was Tiberius' adopted grandson and great-nephew putting him next in line for emperor
• he started off well: granting bonuses to those in military, declaring treason trials a thing of the past, made government spending 
• began fighting with senate
• claimed to be a God
• cruelty and insanity, he slept with other men's wives and bragged about it, indulged in too much spending and sex, and even tried to make his horse a consul and a priest
• assassinated by his own aides AD 41 (age 28)
• Cladius
• Ostracized by his family because of his disablilities he was the last adult male in his family when Caligula was killed
• he rose to the occasion: he conquered Britain; he built roads, canals, and aqueducts; he renovated the Circus Maximus
• Had an awful marriage with Messalina, who was quite often unfaithful to him, even plotting to seize power for her lover Silius through a coup so Claudius killed both 
• Christianity and Judaism: monotheistic
• Romans had many gos, plus at times the emperor was viewed as a god
• AD 66: a group of Jews called the Zealots tried to rebel, but Roman troops put them down 
• 
  

Notes on Rome

Colligiua- 25 years old became emperor

2 years into Role, he led army north to invade Britain

-ordered all soldiers to collect seashells

-went to kill an animal for sacrifice to god's but killed a priest instead

Colliguia was killed by his own "aids"

Claudius was infancy his body was disfigured for rest of his life

in year 41 -Claudius was heir of Tiberius, after death 

suddenly an emperor after everyone made fun of him

increased woman's privileges  

apologized to patrons

took rule in Britain 

Tiberius, Claudius Coll. 

Today in class we watched a video on Rome and its empires
ROME

• Roman empire started with Julius Caesar
• by year 14, Greece, Spain northern Africa, Syria all became Rome
• Mediterranean was theirs 
• Augustus power was taken over after his death by his stepson, Tiberius
• Germanicus was to settle armies, became leader
• His son was named Bootsie, (Calligula) 
• Tiberius was accused of killing Germanicus
• Augustus died around 14 BC 

Today in class we watched more of the video!

Tiberius in Government:

3 brothers were killed by being dragged around, starvation and committing suicide

Jesus- outraged, turned tables, free'd doves at the temple.
arrested for political subversion - crucified (which took 3 hrs)

Roman perspective of crucifix: getting rid of a rebel-rouser, keeping peace within the roman empire
Followers perspective of crucifix: Jesus was now their hero, dieing for what he believed in

Crucifix: main reason was because of how Public it was, it was horribly painful and sent a warning message to any rebels

Caligula in Government at 25 years old: - Emperor

2 years into role, he led an army north to invade Britain
- ordered all soldiers to collect sea shells
- went to kill an animal for sacrifice to god's but killed a priest instead

Eventually he was killed by his own aids, whom thought he was mentally insane

Claudious - @ infancy was disfigured for the rest of his life
In year 41 AD, he was heir to "emporercy"

Claudius in government:

**Suddenly an Emperor after everyone made fun of him,
instead of being cold-hearted because everyone made fun of him, he was extremely modest
-Increased womens privileges
-Apologized to patrons

took rule in Britain

10 images

This is a picture of the Tiber river

This is a picture of Tarquin

This is a picture of Plebeians and Patricians

This is a picture of a Roman Legion

This is a picture of Hannibal. 

This is a picture of the Gracchus Brothers. 

This is a picture of Julius Caesar

This is a picture of Pompey

This is a picture of Brutus. 

This is a picture of Circus Maximus 

Today we didn't have class!

Today in class we reviewed our tests on Rome!

Today in class we took a test on Rome. I think I did pretty good because I studied last night!

Today in class we presented our power points on Rome. Test tomorrow!

-Etruscans had a written language which the Romans took their technique from
-Latins were the first to live in area
-many words Romans had came from the Latins
-Tiber River is where the Latins lived
-Latins dominated and civilized the people of this area
-drained the swamp
-Soon had a king called Tarquin, (last king) but soon took him out of power
-never had another dictator, came up with republican government


Democracy
-form of government where all people have an equal say in decisions of their government and their lives

Aristocracy
-form of government based on the best citizens ruling the city
-high class
-making laws more favorable towards the upper class
-began to treat under them poorly

Monarchy
-single ruler
-power was usually passed down to an heir of the throne
-

Legions
-usually made up of Roman citizens, around 6000 soldiers
-divided into manipoles

Carthage-new city in Phoenician
-major urban center that has existed for nearly 3,000 years
-Africa


Latifundia
-spoils of war
-slaves worked the land, not Roman farmers
-Roman estates
-produced oil and wine for exporatation
-rich would evict people from their homes, got more and more land
-every time Romans conquered an area, pick up slaves

Gracchus Brothers
-Tiberius and Gauis
-Roman plebian nobles
-attempted to pass a land reform that would redistribute huge pieces of patrician land among the plebians
-considered the founding fathers of socialism and populism
-both were assassinated for their attempts

Julius Caesar
-born on July 12 100BC in Rome
-lead Rome to victory against Gaul
-was appointed dictator for ten years in 47 BC
-didn't have much money
-govern one of Rome's provinces to in order to gain control
-Crassus (the rich) Pompey was to dominate Roman politics for several years
-Gallic Wars were a serious of military campaigns lead by Caesar
-was proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity"
-very popular among everyone
-stabbed by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus and many other senators.
-Ides of March, 15, 44BC
-senate was affraid he was getting to powerful
-senator waited outside theater, asked Caesar to sign something getting someones brother out of exile. he didn't so they stabbed him 23 in chest, friend was included in stabbing, "you too brute?"


Roman Empire Information
-Pax Romana- latin for Roman peace
-Roman roads- allowed to move armies, trade goods, and communicate, used stones, broken stones, mixed with cement and sand, tiles, curving stones, built like walls, lasted forever
-

5/4/2011

Today in Western Civ, Mr. Schick wasn't here so we worked quietly in Mrs. Redfern's on our power points!

We didn't have class today!

Today in class we were assigned a part of a song about Rome. We split up into groups and i'm working with Sam and Morgan! Our section of the song was the 6th paragraph. It talked about Octavius, Cleopatra, Marc Antony, and Lepidus. •In our paragraph of the song, it states that Octavius was only 18 when he started ruling. He was very close with Lepidus and Marc Antony. Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus formed an official three-man government, called “the second triumvirate”. Cleopatra came into the scene and tried to take over Octavius’ power. Octavius remained ruler, and changed his name to Augustus.