End of the Year

Time, Is it really that time again? It seems as if we have only just arrived. We've done a great deal in a small time span. It seems as though I have only spent a couple of days in this class and wish I could stay another year. However, like all good things in life, I must move on from this class of fun and randomness. As Max said in his blog there are many people in this class who were annoying at times, but I tolerated them and didn't move away, I wasn't scared. OK maybe a little bit scared. I still think that this was the best class this year, and probably the best I have had ever. Now, as Max did, it is time to share my favorite quote with you: "The right man in the wrong time can make all the difference in the world. So wake up, wake up and smell the ashes."

Exam Layout

120ish question
15 on Guns Germs and Steele
10 on Ancient civilizations
10 on Ancient Egypt
35 on Greece
20 on Rome
12 on Feudalism

-GUNS GERMS AND STEEL-
Sega
14 domesticated animals
Cuneiform
Prehistory-Not written down
History-Written down
Agricultural Revolution- When people settled down and farmed
-ANCIENT HISTORY-
Tigris and Euphrates
Hammurabi's Code
-ANCIENT EGYPT-
Nile center of Egyptian life
Nile flowed south to north
Pharaohs
Pyramids were Tombs
Sphinx was guarding Pyramids
Sphinx was built 2500 BC
-GREECE-
Oligarchy was a small group of men that ruled the government
Monarchy was a king who passed his rule down his family line
Athens was into individual effort
Sparta was into working for the group
Athens held off Persia twice
but failed to defeat Sparta
-ROME-

-FEUDALISM-

West Civ Blog 5/28/13

Today in class we took a test and got results for it almost immediately, I got an A. I don't know what else to say here so yeah.

West Civ Blog 5/22/13

Today was a great day. Max and I taught the class because Mr. Schick believes that students connect better with each other rather then a teacher. We reviewed what we did yesterday such as feudalism, fiefs, vassals, lords, barons, Oh and the iron plow. We may have even referenced the iron plow more then Mr. Schick.

West Civ Blog 5/21/13

Today during class we learned about the age of Feudalism. Oh, and iron plows. The iron plow was invented around the time of Feudalism and was used by serfs and women to plow the lords and barons fields. Many variations of the plow, and some originals, are still used today by modern day farmers. However, the iron plow was the first of its kind and was made completely out of iron. Iron. IRON! Oh did I mention the Iron Plow?

West Civ Blog 5/20/13

Today in West Civ we, section 1, got our tests and quizzes back (lucky us!). I was quite surprised at the number of people who got less than 100s on the pop quiz, however, I still managed to get all of them right. That's pretty much all we could do this class because of mass and freshman retreat.

After Rome 500-700 Blog 5/17/13

Barbarians!!
-Barbarians were nomadic tribes that moved all over Europe and Northern Africa
-The Huns even came over from China
-Barbarians who assimilated into Roman culture became the "nobles"
-The Angles and Saxons dominated Britain
-Anglo-Saxons were mostly converted to Christianity
-The most powerful Germanic tribe was the Franks
-But the real power came from the "mayors of the palace" who were royal officials and nobles

Meanwhile...
-The Eastern Empire changes names to Byzantium
-Justinian tried to take back the West in 527, but failed and lost a TON of men to plague and war
-Justinian succeed for a time but ended up having to retreat from a loss of men
-Byzantium goes Christian
-Leaders from Byzantium saw themselves as the Roman leaders and Heads of the Church
-Justinian built the Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") the most glorious church of all time
-Took three years to build, but it was worth it