5-27

Today we spent they whole day on the beach again. Their were people fishing on shore and someone caught a four foot shark! My other cousin Abbey got here around 7pm because today was her last day of school. Lucky. Later that night we went to the boardwalk and me and Abbey road the sling shot. right before we went off the guy said he forgot something onthe ride so i started freakingout and then he went to reach for it and we shot up in the air. I guess he was just joking becasue im still alive but it was not funny.

may 26

Today i wasn't in class because I was in Ocean City. My family and I spent the whole day on the beach then went to dinner at dead freddies. After that my cousin Jen and my parents and I went tp northside park and walked around. They have some of the biggest houses i have ever seen on 125th street. After the park went to go look at all those huge houses even though all of my family's money combined wouldn't be able to afford one. Last, we went back to the condo and whatched the Hangover

May25

Commodus- Roman empire began its decline while he was in rule

Diocletian- In 214 he was the emeror he was a strong willed army leader and a son of a slave

Constantine- a young commander who was one of the four rivals competeing for power when the civil war broke out

Eastern Empire- the wealthier half of the empire and was ruled by Diocletian

Western Empire- not as wealthy as the east and was not ruled by Diocletian

Battle of Milvian Bridge- the clash between Constantine and his rival fought near the bridge which is two miles outside of Rome. Constantine won!

Edict of Milan- it is when Constantine announced the end to the persecution of Christians and their religion was approved by the emperor

Constantinople- the capital which was given its new name of Constantinople after the center of the empire shifted from west to east

Germanic Peoples-  lived near the Rhine River the Huns raided them

Huns- people who were feared and as they moved west the Germanic People moved too and eventually destroyed the western half of the empire

Alaric- marched across the Alps towards Rome and was the king of the Visigoths in 410

Gaiseric- king of the Vandals in 455 sailed to Rome from north Africa and was a ruthless leader

Attila- one the the Huns leaders that made them seem more dangerous

Leo I- the Pope in 452

Romulus Augustus- the last Roman emperor who was 14 years old

Odoacer- a barbarian general who took the throne from Romulus Augustus

1. In the third century they had economic problems such as poor harvests, disruption of trade, no more plunder from wars, gold and silver drain inflation, and crushing tax burden.
2. Romes military had changed because their soldiers only fought so they could earn money so then they had to find barbarians who would accept lower pay fo teir military.
3. The religious change that Constantine brought was when he ended the persecution of Christians. The political change he brought was when he gained control of the western and eastern empire and changing the capital.
4. Germanic tribes invaded the empire because the Huns were moving and they felt threatened and moved west just like the Huns. Their army wasn't strong so the empire was unable to drive invaders out.
5. Diocletian should be considered a successful emperor because he made the empire stronger, he divided the empire into two parts, and he was ranked as one of the greatest emperors. Three reasons why Diocletian could be known as a failure is because not 100% of the reforms were a success, taxes were higher because of him having to pay the soldiers more, and when he tried to control the prices that mission failed.

5-24

Today in class we were making changes on our papers due tomorrow. I have a lot of work to do on my paper.

Powerpoint 2

Persecution of Christains
ROmans were harsh toward those who didn't worship the emperor. Christains who were viewed as followers of a new upstart religion were escpecially persectued. They were thrown to the lions. Despite everything Christianity grew quickly and around 10 percent of the people in Rome were Christains.

Essay for test
What is the difference between the Roman Empire and Roman Repubic.

Powerpoint

Agustus
 Begins the Pax Romana-a period of peace and prosperity, Buily roads, aqueducts (brought water to the cities) Set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service. Augutus dies at age 76 in AD

Jesus/Paul
 a roman citizen practicing Jew. at 30 e began his ministy. The governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilaate sentence Jesus to death by crucifixion. Some people believe he will return someday but other people don't.Instrumental in telling the world about Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and message. He travels far and wide: Cyprus, Anatolia, Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, Rome, Jerusalem, and maybe even Spain and Britain. He writes letter to many of those he spoke to these epistles are a part of the Neww Testament. If not for the efforts of Pau, it is likely that Jesus remains an obscure preacher, insted of the central figure of the world largest religion.

Most influential People in History
1. Muhammad
2. Sir Isaac Newton
3.Jesus
4. Buddha
5. Confucius
6. St. Paul of Tarsus

Tiberius
Setpson of Augustus and adopted sun.  he was dark, somber, reclusive, and reluctnt emperor. He didn't get a long with Senators he said the were "men fit to be slaves". Died in AD 37 at the age of 77.

Caligula
Germanicus' son. he was Tiberius' adopted grandson and great-nephew putting him nex in line for emperor. He granted bonuses to those in the military. Then he began to fight with the Senate. He claimed to be a god and has staues displayed in many places. including inthe Jewish temple. Other example of cruelty and insanity; he slept with men's wives and bragged about it. Induldege in to much spening and sex and made his horse a consl and a priest.

Claudius
Was made fun of by his family because of his disabilites. He was the last adult male in his family when Caligula was killed. He rose to the occasion: He conquered Britain; he built roads, canals, and aqueducs; he renovated the Circus Maximus. married Messalina who was unfaithful. She was plotting to seize power for her lover Silius through a coup so Claudius had the killed. Married 4 times.

Religious troubles
Christianity and Judaism: monotheistic. ROmans had many Gods, plus at times the emperror was viewed as a God. A group of Jews called Zealots tried to rebel but Roman troops put them down and burned their temple. the western wall today is the holiest of all Jewsish shrines.

Friday

Caliglia is now Emporor and envaded Brittin. He was a crazy leader and during the Brittish envasion he order his men to stop and collect sea shells and decides to kill a priest. Coliglia wanted a statue of himself in the temple of Jeruselum the biggest worship building for the Jewa. After Coliglia Claudius is empror and his wife Mealena had affairs with other people.

Thursday

Tibirius in his elddr ages engaged in porn and got people to make statues of it and paint pictures. Romans were trying to avoid having one extremel powerful ruler but thats whar they got. In this part of the video it explains the first time you hear about Jesus in ancient history. Paull was an historical figure. In Romes eyes Jesus was a criminal.

Wendesday 5-15

Octavius becam emporor after the trumprage. This is the point where Rome change from republic to an Empire. Tiberious, Caligula, Claudius were Octavious's Heirs. Greece, Syria, Africa and Spain wa all apart of Rome. Tibirius was leader fter Octavious and he was Octavius's step son. Tibirius was an indecisive leader. Calig is a baby in an army uniform. Their were public baths and Sagan was hung.

5-9

Today we went over our Greek and rome test. I got an 80 on both! I was really suprised and happy because i thought i failed the Rome test!

5-6

After two weeks  on studying Rome we had a test today. It was pretty hard and I don't think i did well at all:(

Rome

Better Goverment
Rome didn't have a tryant. The had three different goverments in one which were
-Democracy
-Aristocracy
-Monarchy
Plebians were the lower class everyone but slaves wer eknown as Plebians if you weren't rich you were a Plebs
They used a legion consisting 5000 men. A century was a subgroup in the Roman Legion.
Puenic wars- in Northan Africa in Carthage. A lot of people traded there.

Latifundia
Large farms that were formed when landowners bought up smaller farms
Hannibal destroyed there farmes and village. They sold there land to the wealthy and moved  to Rome.
Gracchus Brothers- Tiberious and Gaius. They were PLEBIAN they attemped to pass land reform legislation-tried to get their land back. Both were assassinated, both tribune. Tiberious was clubbed to death. Gaius took offivve 10 years after brothers death.

Ceasar
Pompey and Crassus formed an alignance with Ceasar and they formed a triumpance. Ceasar recrueded Crassus. Crassus had a military backround and one of the richest people. they conquered GAUL when he died. Pompey also had a military backround was Ceasars fathern in law.

Ceasar's Assasination-became dictator, March 15 he was assassinated he was stabbed 23 times in the chest because he was becoming too powerful. perpetual means dictator for life. Brutus was the main leader of the assassinataion. His mom was one of Julias's mistriseses. Planned to kill him in a meeting at the Theater of Pompey. the last words were "Et tu Brute" which means and you Brutus.

5-4

Today Mr.Schick was not in calss and me and Fiona finished our powerpoint so we didn't have to do much work in class today except add some more pictures.

5-2 Octavian

Today we only had about 8 people in our class, but we broke up into groups of two and got a paragraph from the rap to make a powerpoint about. My partner is Fiona and we got the Part about Octavian aka Agustus. He was Ceasar's adopted son and his enemy was  Antony. They went to war against eachother where Octavian had to go against Antony and Cleopatraa. Octavian ended up winning the war and got the name Augustus

Rome Rap

Legion

 
Hannibal

Ceasar

Tiber River

Octavian


Cleopatra

Roman Tunic

Brutus

pompey
Rome

Gaul

Plebians