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-Unable to open presentation i will copy my notes when i am able to

Different Kind of Soldiers

-From age 18 to 60 all physically fit men went to the military.
-Most of the soldiers were the heavily armored infantry called hoplites.
-Young ephebes (adolescent males) trained for 2 year in a barracks then went home until

911 Is the topic for Assigned blog number 2. TESTT TOMMOROW- use your daily blogs- use the powerpoints from Mr. Bruns!

 1. Native American Removal- Colonel and US policy of getting rid of Native Americans and getting what we wanted from them such as l

Today we talked about all of our assignments due this Sunday including our weekly blog about 9/11.

Test Tomorrow

Native American Removal - 1492 - Late 1800's

Columbus and Exploration - 1492 - Early 1600's, Big Countries England, France, Netherlands, Por

http://www.athens-greece-guide.com/acropolis.htm

The acropolis is a group of buildings that look over greece

Although there has been buildings and temples on the Acropolis rock since Mycenaean times it is the structures from the Periclean building prog

Phalanx
- Used in the battle of Marathon around 500 B.C.
- One major downside to the phalanx is it's use against cavalry
- The horses in the cavalry could quickly ride around the phalanx and attack the weak side
- Athenians used mountains and natural hab

Government

-What type of government?
Athens created the first democracy.  They were a direct democracy which meant the people vote to make their own rules and laws.
-Always this type of government? If not how it change?
No, by the 5th century, they chan

MY COMPUTER WOULDN'T LOAD

We worked on our projects today

Aphrodite

• Goddess of love, beauty, and fertility
• Also a protectress of sailors
• Born from the sea foam
• Most beautiful woman in the world (Paris)

Artemis

• Daughter of Zeus and Leto
• Virgin Goddess of the Hunt
• Twin to Apollo
• Could br

Today we had a work day.

Major Contributions of Socrates-

• He fought in the Peloponnesian War.
• His teaching style was non traditional.
• He also didn't charge for his schooling.
• He is most known for his devotion to ethic, method of reasoning, linking knowled

Work day.

Group project: Religion

• monotheism or polytheism?
• why did they pray?
• to whom did they pray? ex. 8-10-gods and what they are known for
• include different myths
• where did religion take place?
• did other civilization have the same beliefs

have sources.

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Today we worked on our projects.

Hera-

• Queen of all Gods.
• Protected women and marriage.
• "Lady".
• Amazon protector.
• Married and a sister to Zeus.

Athena-

Zeus was the son of Cronos

Cronos destiny was to be over thrown by a son

Zeus escaped and freed his siblings and imprisoned his father

Zeus married Metis but his authority made him arrogant

killed Metis then Athena was released from his head

Athena was Ze

Today in class:

We were given the topic and expectations for our assigned blog

The topics that we are going to be tested on were reviewed.

1. The first Native American Removal:We forced the native Americans off of their land in order to obtain the land

http://lmoskal.net/worldhistory/whtext/ch05/5.3.pdf

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/athenians.html

Key players of Athens golden age- Plato, Aristotle, Socrates

Notes for project:

Farmers: Farmers in ancient greece grew enough to support their families, but sometimes grew a small -surplus to sell at the local market.  -- Farmers today grow more than enough to support their families and a town. It is common to

today we worked on our project I had -The branch and bodies of government

• little soil and farmland
• 20% of land
• barely, grapes, and olives
  • grapes- Bronze Age, grow well in rocky soil
• grain crops were planted in October and harvested in April or May
• barely-main cereal crop
• • diet-based on cereals
    • barely, durum wheat, millet, common w

Today we talked about what is going to be on our test tomorrow that is over the ten events that shaped US History to 1877.

1. Native American Removal Act
2. Columbus and exploration
3. Jamestown and colonization
4. revolutionary war
5. US constitution
6. Louisiana Purchase

The Assigned blog #2 is due Sunday. And the 8th Grade Review Test is tomorrow. And the topic is to recall details on nine eleven. We are listening to Mr.Bruns that he is talking about the 10 events that shaped US History to the 1877. Katya is my olde