Honors Human Geo

Today we had a test about Greece. I feel really good about today's test I think I'm gonna get a really good grade to hopefully bring by B to a higher B and then get it to an A so I can have all A's cause currently western civ is my only B.

We have a test tomorrow I feel like I can do pretty good on it I just need to study a bit tonight. I also have an English quiz tomorrow so I need to study for that too but I'm fine with English so I'll just focus of western civ for the most part.

rewind to the clash of the tyrants Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE his brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh he was expelled from Athens ( ostracized )  in revenge, he began working with the Persian king Dorian l , helping them invade Marathon next in line with Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both aristocrats) engaged in a power struggle Isagoras has support from aristocrats ans Sparta Cleisthenes has support from majority of Athens Isagoras wins Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant) ostracizes Cleisthenes  Cleisthenes' supporters revolt against his tyranny  they trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days-on the third he fled and was banished 508 BCE  

today in class we had another pop quiz which is kinda really stupid cause we just learned the unit but you know it's fine or whatever not mad or anything.

government terms polis:  fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding country-side politics, poll, policy monarchy: rule by a single person (king in Greece) aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfaction with aristocracy rule, who seized power (often with military help) tyrant: powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support transformation of government during the sixth and seventh centuries BCE, aristocrats ran the show in most of Greece aristocracy aristocracy: numbers of the ruling class they attended symposiums, meetings where elite men would enjoy wine, poetry, dancers, acrobats, hetaeras (hookers) while discussing politics politics no women (except entertainment) no middle class no slaves some aristocrats What to do if you're on the outside? tyrants seize control Draco  (621 BCE) all Athenians are equa

even more geography quarter of peninsula arable Greek diet consisted of grain, grapes, olives, fish lack of resources led to civilization temperatures ranged from mid 40's to low 80's some early peoples began around 2000 BC Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus, protected by a 20 foot thick wall Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1100 BC controlled trade in the region 1400 BCE Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture (writing system, language, art, politics, religion, literature) the Trojan  war fought in 1200 BCE gods and goddesses were involved "sea people" and Dorians 1200 BCE sea people started to invade Mycenae burning palaces Dorian's moved in dominating 1150-750 BCE Dorian's were far less advanced trade-based economy collapsed writing disappeared for 400 years Homer blind story teller of the Trojan war the Liad the Odyssey- 12,110 lines Was he real?

The allegory of the cave's meaning is more interesting to me than the actual story. This is because I just didn't enjoy the story from the other day but I did enjoy the video we watched today about the meaning behind the story. I do think that the meaning still holds truth to this day because of the amount of distractions we have today that keep our attention away from our school, family, and social life. Again I just personally didn't enjoy the actual story and don't think it will benefit me in the future due to the fact that I plan on majoring in psychiatry, environmental, or cognitive science.

an introduction to a great civilization  the world's greatest civilizations all located on water (usually rivers) Mesopotamia- Tigris and Euphrates Egypt- Nile India- Indus china- Huang he culture of the mountains and the sea a geographical look at Greece     Greece's geography note the significance of Greece's geography describe Greece's topography look at Greece's surroundings identify : Aegean sea, Ionian sea, Adriatic sea, peloponnesus, Athens, Sparta, Crete, Asia minor, Macedonia    geography/ its significance Greece is a mountainous peninsula mountains cover three quarters of Greece 2000 islands in the Ionian and Aegean sea these shaped Greece's culture: many sailors and ship builders along with farmers, metal workers, weavers, and potters poor and limited natural resources-needed trade difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain developed small, independent communities (city-states) who they were loyal to

The allegory of the cave was about a group of people who grew up chained to a wall watching shadows on the opposite one learning what each one is. One day, a prisoner is taken out of the cave and put into their modern day society where they have to experience new things, the sun, and what life is actually like outside of the cave. After returning to the cave to tell the others what he has discovered, he is killed because he left the prisoner's life style for a whole new world so they don't want him back because he is thought to be a traitor. I believe this allegory is meant to represent change. I think this because the prisoners left in the cave did not experience what the other prisoner did. He left the cave, which took a lot of courage, and discovered a whole new world ready to tell the others about. But when he returns they don't like how he has left what everyone else has been doing since childhood because they think that he has now become one of the modern societies p

Today in class we took our quiz which I got an 88% on it which isn't bad. We also started to learn about ancient Greece and take notes. I didn't get very far on the notes though so I will probably have to do a bunch more next Monday.

we went over the power point slide notes that are very useful that I will use to study for the quiz on Friday.

Today in class we went over some questions that might be on the quiz tomorrow and I feel like I'm gonna do really good on the quiz tomorrow.

Today we used class as a catch up kind of day because a few of us were out sick when everyone else read and took notes on pages 35-41. I don like putting my notes of those pages on here because there were a lot and I still have to do a bunch for homework but I don't really care cause I can do that at the away game.