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!