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Thursday, Sept. 6th

**Persian War

-New Technology

  • only rich could really afford to buy the bronze weaponry and armor
  • iron later replaced bronze and allowed the common man to be able to arm himself and fight battles
  • new formation was formed in battle called the phalanx-had t
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Thursday, September 6

Classical Greece

Geography

  • Sea
    • Allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel
    • Important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resources that it lacked; timber, precious metals, usable farmland.
  • Land
    • Rugged mountains covered about 3/4 of ancient
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Today we wrapped up our 8th grade review presentations with the last group. Tomorrow we will discuss our week one assigned blogs. On Monday or Tuesday, we will have our group test over the presentations.

Native Americans-
They crossed over because the

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Native Americas Crossing- The Native Americans crossed over, because they were follng bison. 1,000 miles long.

Christopher Columbus- Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in the year of 1492. He impacted the United States because he was one of t

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Classic Greece

Geography-

                The Sea allowed for great opportunity for trade and travel.

It was important because it allowed Greece to get the natural resources that it lacked: timber, precious metals, usable farmland

                The lan

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Thursday, September 6th

The Erie Canal- A waterway in New York that travels about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie. It was 36 locks and was first purposed in 1808 and started construction in 1817 to 1825. It was used to

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Thursday, septemeber 6th

Preston's group cont'

Civil War

native American removal act

in 1830 president Jackson signed for the removal of the native Americans

Gold Rush

in 1849, led many people to California and out west because of the gold, not many people found it and stayed out

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Thursday, Sept. 6th

THE PERSIAN WAR

  • New Technology
    • During the Dorian age, only the rich could really afford to but the bronze weaponry and armor.
    • Iron later replaced bronze and allowed the common man to be able to arm himself and fight battles. Also a new formation was for
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Wednesday, Septembet 5, 2012

I was absent but i got the notes from a friend.

 

Dorian Period

  • Dorian and the Mycenaen people started to identify less with culture of their ancestors and more with the local area
  • Government made the transition from tribal or clan control to more formal
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9/5/12

The market revolution was in 1793-1909 in the United States was a drastic change in the manual labor system origination in the South and soon moving to the North later spreading the entire world.


They brought the market revolution about a change in an

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Athens vs Sparta

Driving Idea:   Understand Sparta and Athens

Expectations: Research how Athens and Sparta compare and contrast

What needs to be covered:

•Compare and Contrast
–Purpose of Education for boys and girls
–Responsibilities of citizens and noncitizens
–Roles of
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Wednesday 9512

Change:
Dorian
-less with culture of ancestors, more with the local area.
-less tribal, more formal gov't- city-states
Gov't
-polis-made up of a city and it's surrounding countryside (comunity)
-citizens would meet at an acropolis to discuss their gov't.
-n

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Wednesday 9.5

During the Dorian Period

  • Change
    • During the Dorian period
      • Dorian and the Mycenaean people started to identify less with culture of their ancestors and more with the local area
      • Gov't made the transition from tribal or clan control to more formal government
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