FEB 24

Citizens and Communities: The Greek City'States

- Greek city-state were small places
- population of both country numbered only a few thousand
- town was built around a hill and they had acropolis(a combination of fortress and temple precinct) at the        top
- worship of the god or goddess was the most important activity
- all the Greeks were entitled to participate and share to a greater or lesser extent
- the Greek language is the first that is known to have had a specific word for a member of such a              community


City-States and Citizens
- Greece was protected by the land and sea
- Greece occupied a wealthier land than Mesopotamia or Phoenicia
- But they couldn't afford professional solders or large cavalry forces
- Citzen who could afford to serve as hoplites equipped themselves with bronze helmets and armor, round    shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords
- Greeks male citizens had to fight for their city-states
- Phalanxes, or rollers fought in formidable shock units of several hundered men each
- Poorer citizen fought as light-armed infantry
- Citizens were reinforced to believe  to have been founded and developed by a family or clan
- Citizenship was in fact a matter of birth: the statue of a father determined that of his children



Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy
- City-state of Greek ruled by kings and their leading companion warriors, as described in the epocs of Homer
- Monarchy provided the way to distribute power more widely among the male citizen
- Oligarchy ="rule by a few" : minority citizen dominated the government and majority citizen was      limited in many way

Ancient Gree

We talked about ancient Greece. We talked about art form , democracy, and art form. How could they make Stonehenge without nowday's technology like crane or something like that? It is mysterious. Mr Schick said that it was built by aliens. Mr Shick is not going to be at class on Monday. So we did some audition for who is going to teach on Monday instead of him. It was really fun but I am sad about his absent on Monday.

Test Score

It was my first test for Western Civilization and I was disappointed about my score. I got 63/78 which is 81. It was almost average but I expected more score. We checked our score and went over the questions. I felt some differences between here and Korea. They compete so much in Korea. Anyway now I got how to study for the Western Civ so I thick I can do better on next test.

Pyramid challenge

All of us played Pyramid challenge which is making Pyramid on the game. Earlier game complete, the more credit we get. I played with Kappel. He tried like 4 or 5 times and gave up and I playd it 3 times and also gave up. There was time limitation so we did it hurriedly. Some teams already finished it and got credit and everyone else who didn't finish it had it for homework. I did it on free mod. It was unusual experience to do game in the class

The Greek

The Greek

-Greeks barbarian had distinctive way of life
-about 2000 B.C. they moved into southeastern Europe to reach easily to the people of Asian Minor, Mesopotamia, and Egypt
-about 800 B.C. Greek civilization occurred based on the Mediterranean sea and the Indian Ocean
-their art forms and the types of government influenced on Western civilization and has lasted down to the present day.
-like Sparta and Athens Greek city-states citizens participated in the government.
-shortly after 500 B.C. they developed methods of fighting to preserved themselves from the kings of Persia

The European Barbarians

-civilization had spread from Sumerian and Egyptian->Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa
-civilization also had risen in India, China and the Western Hemisphere.

The earliest European

-prehistoric village->agricultural revolution(include Europe)

-4000 B.C. farming and village life had spread-> increase in population and wealth ->3500 B.C well organized enough construct ceremonial monuments

-many of megalithic structures and traces of furrows in the soil discovered by archaeologists(evidence of argricurtral tol, the plow)

-Stonehenge-four circular or horseshoe-shaped huge open-air monument built by a prosperous farming and trading people in the Western England.

      -It aligned to the movements of the sun and moon

      -standing structure still today is testimony to the level o f wealth, organization and skills.

      -it was repeatedly rebuilt over a period of several hundred years 

The Barbarian Way Of life

-from about 2500 B.B. Indo-European peoples moved Europe

-instead of their earlier language, settled people before Indo-European came, began to speak language of Indo-Eurpean origin in that were the distant ancestors of Greek and Latin

-warriors became gods of fatherhood and thunder, metalworking and war

-when leader warriors died, his belongings(horses, chariot, swords, daggers, and gold and silver drinkking cups) would all go to the grave so that he could go riding, fighting and drinking in the after-life

-woman went to war to bring food and bind warrior's wounds and force them back into the fight if they panicked an sometimes to join in the fighting

-European groups of village or farmsteads formed tribes

-They had more or less powerful hereditary chieftains, whom considered as kings or queens by Greek and Roman observers

-they exported metals, slaves,, and other items to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia or Egypt to in return for some luxurious of civilization

-overpopulation and famine caused massive armed migration such as Sea Peaples.

-Greek "barbaros" = non-Greek

-Greek developed civilization to their own->"Western"

The Aegean Encounter

Minoan civilization

-Aegean region such as Palestine came from a combination or grain field, vine-yards and olive graves that was common throughout the Mediterranean lands

-southeastern Europe whic h is also Aegean region was rich in metals and timber

-Minoan civilization

    -about 2200 B.C. Minoan civilization arose on the Aegean island of Cretee

The arrivial of the Greeks Mycenean civilization

-when Hitties conquered Anatolia, Indo-European-speaking people arrived in the Aegean(the Greek) and found new homeland and finally influenced be Crete bu 1600 B.C.

-Mycenaen civilization arouse from some of the islands which is fortified by Greek chieftains

-Mycenaens adopted Minoan civilization's writing

-Myceanaean struggled wit the Minoans for controlling eastern Mediterranean sea and it ended about at 1400 B.C.

Cyber Day 1

A. Describe the social hierachy and of the ancient Egyptians.  

   As everyone knows, during the ancient Egypt Pharaoh was a king and also god of Egyptian. There was also hierarchy for the society. This social position is given when there were born.
Pharaoh-government officials-soldiers-scribes-merchant-artisans-farmers-slaves and servants. This is order of ancient Egypt's hierarchy and they had to follow it.
   Pharaoh was obeyed by everyone in the Egypt and considered to be a man given power by the god. Pharaoh's mission was to control the whole country like as normal king, but they had awesome responsibility and power. Priest, physicians, and engineers are the government officials. They are also called " white kilt" because they wear only bright colors. Soldiers were third class. They invented chariots to be stronger and also they were the first one who used wooden weapons. For the scribes they wrote down useful information. They kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical information. Merchant used money/barter system and invented coinage to buy and sell something wisely. Their mission was to get profit for the Egypt. Artisans would carve statues and relief showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife. They were more likely to sculptures. Some of them carved in the pyramids. Farmers raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions. They benifitted from irrigation of the Nile and naturally well-informed about Nile. It provides good quality of soil on September and it floods on June. For the last, slaves and servants didnt live hardly. They helped the wealthy with household and childraising.
   As I wrote, there were hierarchy for ancient Egypt society and there were duties for each position. Ultimately everythings were for their Pharaoh and their afterlife.

B.Discuss the importance of the Nile river in the lives of Egyptians.
 
  Ancient Egypt was around Nile river so it was most important place for ancient Egyptians. It determined their lives. But using this river wisely they usually get advantage. Farmers were well-informed about Nile. If it floods the water destroyed all the crops and mess up soil. Otherwise if it provides moderate water then they got extravagant profit from harvest. They pray to the god for the good harvest every year. They invented calender to predict when does the Nile floods usually. It floods in June and provides fertile soil in September. There is place called delta. It is triangle shaped and has much more fertile soil there.

Mr schick got mad.

Mr schick was mad because of our rude behavior. Frankly speaking, I don't speak in the class because I am learning English. I can even understand like 80% of the class. Anyway after that I went out during the class to take picture of international students. When I came back they were watching videos about mummification and then about pyramids. How did they make that size of structure? It is even hard to make it now!! I think because they built not only pyramids and but also invent so many things, they are one of  the most innovational culture.

Cyber day 2

1.There are so many inventions and innovations of the ancient Egypt. Among them I think calender is the best invention. They should know when does the Nile River flood for farming. So using calender was great advantage for them. Secondly, Papyrus is innovational invention. They could write or draw something on it and it makes better to exist history. For the last, Pyramids are astonishing invention. It is huge tomb for the King of the Egypt. How did they make that size of tomb at that time? Even though it is questionable inventions, it is fact that Pyramids are tremendous inventions.

2.Pyramid is tomb of pharaoh which is King of the ancient Egypt. Pyramids are very important structure in many ways. One important feature is it's appearance. It is huge triangle shaped and made of marble. But it stripped by the Muslim. Another important feature is inside of the Pyramids. There are many paintings of people and pharaohs. Also pharaoh buried many jewelries and something like that expensive things and their family members and their pets also. The last important feature of pyramids is  that there is secret entrance and also secret rooms for Pharaoh. They had to move blocks to make road to go to secret rooms and there are also traps to protect Pharaohs

Today Arri and Laura had almost fight. I actually did't understand all of it but I know that the reason is Arri's hobby. It was kind of funny and everyone in the class laughed. And also Laura changed seat to the back. We watched some videos about how to make Mummy. I've seen mummy in Korea when they borrow it fro Egypt and by seeing the procedure of making mummy, it was disgusting.  How could they get rid of the internal organs..... Anyway today's class was really funny

Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

- Egypt was divided in two sections called"two lands". Nile river affected them significantly
- Egypt was ruled by the  pharaohs' absolute power
- The pharaoh had many wives.
- Egyption deity is usually depicted with the head of a falcon and the pharaoh himself portrayed as in the        Great Spinx
- The writing of the words of God hieroglyphs-> hieratic script-> demotic script
- Astronomers created a calender
- By building sailboat, Mediterranean became that would one day stretch from its eastern shores to Northern Africa, Southern Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean.
- Pyramids- Pharaohs' stone tomb which is the masterpieces of practical engineering.
- The pharaos of the Old Kingdoms were the builders of pyramids.

early dissmisssal

I expect not to go to school because of the terrible weather. But instead of not going to the school, it ends at 10 am. We did nothing during the Western Civilization class. I just played flappy birds and searched article about Real Madrid which is my favorite soccer team.