Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
- Got stabbed to death by senate
- took over at the age of 18
- "The honored one" 
- Brutus:

• one of his close friends
• stabbed him to death as well
• Et tu, Brute? Even you Brutus?
• thought to be his last words because Shakespeare wrote them

- Octavian (Caesar Augustus) 

• AKA: Caesars grand-nephew 
• began his rule at age 18
• became known as Caesar Augustus 
• begins the Pax Romana- a period of peace and prosperity
• built roads, aqueducts (brought water to the cities)
• set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supple, even a postal service
• Augustus dies at age 76 in A.D. 14, and passes power to Tiberius 

from Jesus to Christianity:

• Jesus was a roman citizen and a practicing Jew
• at 30, he began his ministry (A.D. 31-33), preaching to the poor (and there were lots of them) in the empire, and reaching out to outsiders
• statements like "My kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the jew) nervous, and they began to plan his execution
• the governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (prompted by Jewish high priests), sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion 
• Paul is an instrument in telling the world about Jesus
•  life, death, resurrection, and message
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• He travels far and wide: Cyprus, Anatolia, Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, Rome, Jerusalem, and maybe even spain and britain
• he writes letters to many of those he spoke to- these epistles are a part of the New Testament
• if not for the efforts of Paul, it is likely that Jesus remains an obscure preacher, instead of the central figure of the worlds largest religion 

honorific: to honor someone/ someone honorable 

august: to be honored 

 

Rise and Fall of an Empire

Ancient Rome Video: Julius Caesar 

- Rome was the greatest empire the world has ever known
- war was fought against Gaul and Romans
- 6 critical moments that shape the empire 

• the empire was great
• but also fell

- Alesia Gaul, 52 BC

• Tibus Lebinus:
• general of Caesars war/army 
• Mark Antony:
• general of Caesars army/war

- Romans attacked Gaul and won the war 

• Gaius Crastinus:
• veteran Centurion 

"The war is not over, it is just the beginning"

Caesar:

• in charge of the war
• had many men behind him wanting to fight for him
• very in charge of things
• a powerful dictator 
• a powerful soldier
• but also a powerful politician 

Underlining and Note taking

We had to get out our textbooks today in class because instead of copying notes we were underlining notes from our books. We were still continuing to talk about Rome and also the Gracchus brothers. We were also talking about the lifestyle and how the families were back then. One of the Gracchus brothers, Tiberius, tried to pass a law through the senate which the senate did not like, at all. So they beat him to death with a chair and threw his dead body in the Tiber river. We also talked about Julius Caesar and how he was a really smart and powerful dictator. He was eventually killed but when he was alive he always had a group of friends and soldiers to back him up. He got many people to do what he wanted just like Hitler did. Except, Julius wasn't crazy like Hitler was. We are going to be talking a little more about Rome tomorrow I think and sadly underlining notes in the book is not that fun. But, it is a lot better than a test or project and it is also a great way to study for any upcoming tests.

Pg 99-101 notes

SOLDIERS, WARLORDS AND CIVIL WAR
- with the changes in Rome's society and politics, the character of its armies and their commanders also changed

• triumvirate: in ancient rome, an alliance of three politicians that enabled them to control the Republic's decision making

JULIUS CAESAR

- came from an old patrician family that had come down in the world

- he entered the city's politics as a young man determined to regain the fame and power of his ancestors 

- came to the identity Rome's key problems at home and abroad

- with the help of his new friends he won an appointment as proconsul of a province that included the southern regions of Gaul

"But that which brought upon him the most apparent and mortal hatred was his desire of being king; which gave the common people the first occasion to quarrel with him, and proved the most specious pretence to those who had been his secret enemies all along."

ASSASSINATION AND ANOTHER CAESAR

- romans at home and abroad applauded Caesar's deeds but they remained a stubborn core of senators who were disturbed by his successes 

Rome Test

Today we took the test and I did not think I was going to do that great. After we finished Mr. Schick took the test down to the office and graded them. He came back and I did not do good at all. I'm really mad about my grade but I know I will study a lot more next time. The forms of government really messed me up because I was really confused on them. I'm happy we have the 200 point project because then I have a chance to move up my grade. We had the rest of the time to just relax so I talked to Carly and played 2048. I'm really mad about my grade so I know next time to focus on the more important things. I knew most of the vocabulary but the government brought me down. I also was not sure where Carthage was. On the test I put Europe but it was actually Afirca. Today is the last day until Spring break and I am so excited. I am going to be making my food for my project over break to see if it is good or not them I am making it on Monday right before we go back to school. I need to get a good grade on this project so I can bring up my grade.

Last day before Rome test

Roman legion:

• the soldiers 
• if you needed to attack someone they would do it
• the "police"
• or army 
• divided into two section:
• one legion is 5000 people
• they did not got paid
• people joined the legion because they were in it to do it
• no women

century:

• 80 people 

infantry:

• soldiers on foot, marching 
• "ground troops:

Calvary:

• soldiers/ men on horses 

Punic wars:

• three wars
• first war:
• fought over Sicily 
• second war:
• Hannibal 
• third war:
• romans attacked carthage 
• Rome won all of them 
• punic wars were important history 

- latifundia: great estate 

• men go off to war and leave their wives at home
• women are forced to sell the farm to a wealthy aristocrat 
• wives now have to work for the aristocrat 
• when the men come home they move to the city or Rome to try to find work
• everyone is there now because most of the women sold their farm

Gracchus brothers:

• rich are getting richer
• poor are getting poorer 
• middle class is evaporating
• came up with reasonable solution:
• went to senate and said that this isn't fair
• give some of the land back to the people that sold 
• got a law passed saying that the rich had to give back their land
• senate then came and beat to death and killed Tibirius Gracchus and threw his body in the Tiber river

- people buy up family farms 

- made chickens have bigger breasts as a way to get more money for the chicken but that isn't fair 

Catching up on the project

Today Mr. Schick explained to us how our Roman project will be graded and the work that needs to be done to get an A on the project. After he was done explaining he gave us the rest of the mod to work on our projects with our groups. Hailey Carly and I got together and decided that we would be making a google doc and a powerpoint about our project. We will be doing different slides about our foods. The slides will be about what the ingredients were, how we made the food, where the recipe came from, and background information about the food. We are making four different things: bread, globi cheese balls, roman cookies, and stuffed dates! I think all of the food sounds great! I just hope the class likes it! Mr. Schick looked to see some of the foods we are making and he said they sounded great too! We are going to put a lot of effort into this project and we hope to get a good grade.

Rome notes

Etruscans: 
- made grid section 
- skilled road builders 

• roads were mostly muddy, dirt piles patted down
• made roads:
• to get to places quickly
• the roads had to be dependable 

- romans did gladiator fighting's

• as entertainment purposes
• "bread and circuses" 
• make the people not want to rise up against leaders 
• distracted them from their everyday life

- patricians: money; land; government listened to; high up; government influence 

- plebeians: lower class; ran the shops; farmed  

FORMS OF GOV. 

- senate:

• the aristocrats 
• if your father was in the senate you would be in the senate 
• if you are elected to the senate you are called a senator 

- the 12 tables:

• the first laws that were written down and publicly posted
• plebeians stood out and grew from the result of the 12 tables 
• plebeians were still lacking their own place in the gov 

- the assembly:

• like the senate but for plebeians 
• if your elected to the assembly you are called a tribune

- the consuls: monarchy

• 2 consuls
• they had 2 because they could keep an eye on eachother 
• consuls were only on the job for 1 year
• could run for consul again in 10 years after served once

- dictators:

• given all of the power 
• not an evil person 
• only a dictator for 6 months then you go back to the senate
• only for 6 months to get through the issue
• made big financial decision
• when there is an emergency the dictator would make the decision 

homework:

1. Rome and Carthage fought in the Punic wars from 264 to 146 BC
2. Rome won all the Punic wars

  

Rome Project

Since it was Friday Mr. Schick gave us the whole class to work on our Rome project. He said since it was the end of the week and we were tired because it was first mod, he said we could work on our project if we promised to get at least some work done. Since Hailey, Carly and I are baking food there wasn't much we could do. We couldn't do much except find more food online that we could potentially bake. Carly got a book from the library on Roman cooking also! We decided that Hailey is going to make Roman cookies, I will be making cheeseballs and Carly is going to find something in her book to make. I think that all the food were making sounds good! I just hope the class and Mr. Schick like it! It should be fun trying different Roman dishes that my classmates make. Not everyone is making food, but the majority of the class is. Baking sounded like the most popular topic for everyone, not only because it is probably the easiest, but because it would be fun!

Text Book Notes

Today in class before we all walked in, Mr. Schick was standing at the door with the text book in his hands. I was walking with Hailey and since we needed our text book we had to go to our lockers to get it. Hailey's locker is on the third floor and lucky for me my locker is on the first floor the same as the class room! Hailey decided to keep her book in my locker because her locker is all the way on the third floor. Once we got back to the classroom Mr. Schick told us to get out a highlighter or pen and to be ready to highlight because that is what we will be doing all class! He told us everything we needed to know. We went through a few pages and were talking about the Romans and the culture they had. I learned that women were not treated fairly when it came to women and men. I also leanred that men were so powerful that if they, for some reason, had to kill their child they could because they were the child's "owner". It is so much different now than it was back then! A lot of the Greek gods/goddesses and some buildings they had were copied by the Romans because they loved what the Greeks were doing! Like I said before, it is just so much different then by the way women were treated and the lifestyle than it is today.

Rome by Chi-Cago

- Etruscans and Greeks- first people to arrive in Italy- Latins very first 
- Mediterranean- "middle earth"
- Remus and Romulus:

•     two twin boys who were raised by a wolf
• Romulus- Rome
• get Rome from Romulus
• a mythological founding of Rome

- Tarquin "The Proud"

• last king in Rome
• got to angry "got a little loud"
• his town ran him out
• his town formed a new government 
• took 3 governments and rolled them into one
• democracy
• aristocracy 
• plus monarchy- some
• we (the US) model our gov like the Romans 
• Judiciary
• executive- monarchy
• legislative- Aristocracy/ democracy- house of representatives 
• respublica- the business for people- where we get republic 

Mr. Schick likes to rap!

Today was April fools day!! Not many of my teachers pulled tricks on us but Mr. Schick did something I did not expect! Once all of our class got into the class room Mr. Schick came in with sunglasses, a hat that was on backwards and a sweatshirt. He said his name was "Chi-Chago" and he was going to rap for us! I didn't really know what to expect! The whole class pulled out there phones and got into the back of the classroom and started to record Mr. Schick. He sang to the song "Low" by Flo-Rida but he changed the lyrics so it was about Rome! I was actually really impressed with his song because he wrote it by himself and it was really good! I had no idea he came up with it when I first started to hear him rap! But sadly the rap ended and we had to get back to class. Mr. Schick then explained a project that we will be doing before and a little after Spring break. We could work with a partner or in a group of two and we have a list of things we get to chose from. My group is Hailey, Carly and I and we are going to be making Roman food to bring into class. I think it sounds like a fun project! Overall, today was a really fun class!