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...

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.