4/15/13

     Today in class we got into groups to work on making a movie that goes with the Rome song Mr Schick wrote. My group was Holly and Drew. We had internet problems the beginning of class so we didn't get as much done. We still have tomorrows class to work on it though.

LO-2 Roman Expansion Notes

Allies and Colonies 

• Created a network of settlers from Rome 
• allies provided infantry and cavalry Romans lacked
• Roman colonists shared the same citizenship with people who lived in Rome 
• Social Wars

The Punic Wars 

• 250 BC all of Italy south of River Po was in Roman hand
• Rival State Carthage 
• Colony similar to Rome
• 246 and 146 BC The Punic Wars- land and sea 
• Forced Carthage out of Sicily 
• Second Punic War in 202 BC Carthage lost
• Rome third war in 146 BC 
• 202 BC Rome had control of the whole Mediterranean

Conquering the Empire

• Proconsuls (governors) ruled lands 
• After 27 BC provinces shared benefits of Rome Order
• Local rulers became Client Kings 
• Tied by alliance and support 
• expansion 
• British Isles 
• Hellenistic Kingdoms were loosing their grip 
• 200 BC ambassadors from Greek city states came to Rome for aid 
• Romans sent an army 
• Conflicts with Hellenistic Kingdoms 
• Ruled all of Eastern Mediterranean 
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4/10/13

Today in class Mr Schick did a Rome rap. It was really funny. Everyone was video tapping it with their phones.His daughter came with him to do it. He put the lyrics up on his blog and said if we remember it we would do good on the tests because its pretty much all the material that will be on the Rome test.

City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic

Italy and its Peoples 

• resources similar to Greece or Palestine 
• supported larger population
• Latin people settled near Tiber River 
• Latins, Etruscans, & Greeks 
• Latins first learned the alphabet and got knowledge from Greek city states 
• 750 BC joined a single city state, Rome 
• Etruscan non Indo-European immigrants- 9th century BC 
• 7th century conquered Latium 
• For a period Etruscan kings ruled Rome themselves 

The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People

• The Senate- council of elders king was advised by
• Patricians- men with fathers
• 500 BC Rome over through  Etruscan rulers
• "Peoples business"- government 
• Mixture of Democracy and Oligarchy
• Plebeians- common people 
• Consuls appointed senators
• Dictator 
• 450 BC laws were written down 
• Tribunes- own magistrates 
• 250 BC distinction between the groups  didn't matter in political 
• Rested in hands of the Senate 
• Clients- less wealthy citizens 
• Patron- protected and paid for the clients 
• 500 BC Last king of Rome Tarquin 
• Senate 300 people 
• Consuls - 2 guys who had more power than the 300 
• 1 year can run in 10 more years
• The 12 tables - set of laws written down posted publicly 
• Veto Laws 

Republican Values

• Still depended on Gods and Goddesses 
• Pontiffs- groups of priests headed by the supreme pontiff 
• Men had to fight in wars 
• Clans and families held together by a father
• Paterfamilias had ultimate power
• Married women had the title of Patron 

4/8/13

King Phillip 2

• Born at pelia of Macedon
• youngest son of King Amyntas 2
• held hostage @ Thesbe- learned military skills & deplomatic info
• King of Macedon 359 BC- 336 BC
• assinated @ a wedding

Olympias

• originally a princess
• arranged marriage with King Phillip 2
• gave birth to Alexander
• divorced Phillip
• ordered Eurydice to kill Phillip 3 (king Phillip 2 son) to ensure Alexander got the throne
• claimed Zeus was Alexander's father

Alexander's Birth

• born in Pella region of Macedonia on September 20, 350 BC
• didn't see his father much as a child because King Phillip was with the military and affairs
• resented his father bc he was gone so much
• Olympia was a powerful role model

Bucephalus

• 344 BC- dealer from Tessalia offered a large, black horse to King Phillip
• Horse seemed unable to be tamed- King Phillip didn't want it
• Alexander wanted the horse and tried to tame it- he realised the horse was afraid of its shadow and tamed it
• King Phillip said about his ability "O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee"

Education

• tutored by Leonidas- taught Math, Horsemanship, & Archery
• Alex was a rebellious student with relentless attention
• tutored by Lysimachus- used role play to teach
• 343 BC- tutored by Aristotle @ Temple of the Nymphs at Meiza (13 years old)- taught Philosophy, Drama, Science, Poetry, and Politics
• education ended at Meiza in 340 BC

Phillip's Assination

• Oct 336 BC in Aegea
• killed by his body guard- Pausanias of Oretis
• Reason unknown- possibilities include: Persians payed him off or Pausanias had relations with him then Phillip cheated on Pausania
• Alex had Pausania's body crucified

Family Relationship

• tension
• Alexander's step mom (Cleopatra)'s uncle told Alex he wasn't worthy of the throne

Alexander takes Power

• people doubted him because he was young
• people who doubted him were killed

Military Career 

• fought vs Persians bc he thought they might have been involved in his father's assassination
• 334 BC: fought NW Asia Minor (Battle of the Granicus River)
• 334 BC- siege of Halicarnassus 
• conquered Egypt @ Gaza
• Egyptains called Alexander a Pharaoh

Invasion of Egypt

• 327 BC- Punjab
• Indians fought with elephants
• Bucephalus died- named a city after him
• won & captured Porus

Revolt of Alex's Army

• revolted bc India had elephants & soldiers wanted to see their family
• Alex allowed them to return
• took Hydaspes & Indus river's home- fought Malion on their way 
• many died on the journey home bc of the Gerdosian desert

Death

• June 10/11 323 BC- 32 years old @ palace of Nebuchadnezzar 2 in Babylon
• reasons a mystery, possibilities: poison (by Aristotle or his son, Iollas), malaria, alcohol poisoning  
• people refused to believe he died

His Power/Rule

• empire was the largest of its time
• remained under Macondian rule for 200-300 years after Alex's death
• Alex encouraged people (Macedonian men) to marry Persian woman to maintain peace 
• tried to combine Greek and Persian cultures- hellenistic era 
• the passing of the ring symbolized the passing of power

3/20/13

Today in class we got put with a partner for a 50 point project on Alexander the great. My partner is Drew. Our topics we have to do on Alexander are treatment of his foes, Hellenistic era, and succession. So far I've worked on the succession part and after he died there were a lot of different rules and they all were in war and the division affected Macedonia. After 40 years of war Macedonia collapsed.

3/19/13

Today we looked at our test scores on power school and I did good it brought my grade up. Then we started a new chapter which is called Greater Greece Hellenistic Era. The page we read talks about how the city states ruled under stronger neighboring rules.We discussed life before the Pelopponesian War and life after. Before they were a democracy and were peaceful then during the war the plague came and killed most of the population.We talked about Alexandria the Great and how he was about 20 when he started ruling and he died at age 32.