Who settled in Rome 

Etruscans, Latins, Greeks

Etruscans

• Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
• Metal workers, artists, architects
• Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy - sound familiar?) plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks

• They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed ideas from them such as:

• Religious beliefs
• Much of their art
• Alphabet

But who first settled there?

 Latins

• Descendants of Indo- European
• Settled on the banks of the Tiber
• Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
• A commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
• And… built on seven hills (esp. palatine)

The people's shock at this horrible behavior and this horrible family made them NEVER want to be subject to the rule of kings EVER again -this was an attitude that lasted for centuries 

Today in class we went over our projects again and talked about what group we are in and how we were going to finish. This weekend Chris, Sydney, and myself are going to get together a buy the supplies and start doing all the hard stuff before we bring it to school. We are also going to have food with this project so we are going to get the ingredients and work together.

the holding capacity of the circus maximus was a quarter of a million people
this was quarter of Romes population.


the circus maximus was destroyed twice by fire and on at least two occasions the stands collapsed and killed many people

in circus maximus unlike the amphitheaters in that day men and women could sit together

circus maximus was in 549 AD a millennium after racks construction


coliseum

- built in 72 AD the Colosseum remains the largest amphitheater in the world

- 500,000 people lost their lives over 1 million wild animals killed

the last gladiatorial fights took place in 435 AD

festivals as well as games could last up to 100 days in the coliseum

thee Colosseum in Italy only took 9 years to build using over 6000 Jewish slaves

today we talked about how greece was formed here are some notes i took:

   Romans had strong values and a particular connection to the gods Jupiter (Zeus), Juno (Hera), and Minerva (Athena)

 Romans believed that it was every citizens duty to participate in government and war, excluding

women

   The Roman family and clan was paternalistic and the “family fear had complete control

     Married women were also revered in Rome as “matrons”

       “Pater familias” – head of the family 

we also heard mr. schick rap!!

Etruscan, Greeks, Latins

-       Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome

-       The etruscan people, from the east, had settled in the north of Italy and were also 

-       Each year the Senate elected two rules, consuls, who each served a term of one year

-       as in the Greek City-States, the romans would appoint a single dictator in times on war or conflict

 - mixed government of patricians and plebeians had many of the checks and balances that modern democracies have today

Today in West Civilization we were given a project about Rome. My group partners are Sydney and Chris. I think this group is a much fit for my type of learning style. I think my grade if going to reflect this. Anyway we have great idea for this  project, it is going to take a lot of time and effort but it will all be worth it in the in. We have already figured out who is getting what supplies in one class period. This project is going to be awesome!!!

Today in class we watched a video called Allegory of the Cave. this video had a very deep meaning. This video basically foreshadowed what our generation is going to be like. We are being persuaded and told what to do by a box in our homes. Televisions causes this generation to not go out and make decisions on our own, but listen to people who are getting paid to tell us what the world is like and how we should live out life. This is also causing us to judge others because they have different opinions and different life styles than us as individuals.  So basically the moral of this video is to go put and make a like of your own, and make your own decisions based on your own experience. Do not live your life through a television.

Today in class we went over corrections in our papers and what they meant. Mr. Schick explained what all of the symbols meant and how to correctly write a paper, because we are going to need to bang out papers fast in college. In the long run this will help us.

Today in class we went over the test took before spring break and went around the room answering all the question correctly. Then we got our papers back on ancient Greece and met up with our group to look at it and talk about our grades.