Rome Rap Remix! By: Nicolette & Katie

                                  This is Katie and I attempting to rap "Rome" by Chi-Cago!

#32 Romulus and Remus Pixton!

Today in Western Civilization we made Pixtons based on the story of Romulus and Remus. We worked in pairs and Katie was my partner. I think we did a pretty good job of explaining the story. It started with the dad leaving his two twin sons in a river and then leaving them there to float around. Then, a she-wolf found them washed up on shore and took them and fed them. Then, a Shepard man found them and took them to live with him and his wife. They raised them and when they became adults Romulus killed Remus with a stone and then Romulus founded a new city and called it Rome! It was a cool project and I really like Pixtons because they help you learn and make it fun! I hope we can do these more often and maybe present them because everyone has the same basic story but in so many different ways!

#33 LO-2 Notes!

Today in Western Civilization Mr. Schick wasn’t here so we had Frau Stall as our sub! We are taking notes on LO-2 today:

LO-2 Roman Expansion

·        The Romans were, above all, a military people---patriotic farmer-soldiers

·        One of Rome’s main assets in this effort was its superior army

The Punic Wars

·        Roman methods of conquest and administration paid handsome dividends, for by 250 BC, all of Italy south of the River Po was in Roman hands

·        But this success brought Rome into collision with a rival city-state beyond the sea: Carthage, on the north coast of Africa

·        Founded about 700 BC by Phoenician colonists, Carthage had become an oligarchic and empire-building republic similar to Rome and had spread its influence across North Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily, lying between Africa and Italy, that brought them into conflict with the Romans  

·        The Punic Wars were waged on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 BC

Conquering an Empire

·        The former possessions of Carthage in Sicily, Spain, and Africa became the first Roman provinces

·        They were ruled as conquered lands by proconsuls (governors from the Latin words for “stand-in for a consul”)

·        It wasn’t until the time of Augustus after 27 BC, that the provinces began to share in the benefits of Roman order

·        Around 200 BC, ambassadors from various Greek city-states appealed to Rome for aid in resisting the king of Macedonia, who has been allied with Carthage

Rome by Chi-Cago Lyrics!

Well, you got the Etruscans and the Greeks

But the Latins came first

To the shores of the River Tiber

They drained a swamp (They drained a swamp)

Next thing you know

Livin’ in Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

Now Tarquin’s kinda proud

But he got a little loud (little loud)

They turned around and ran that tyrant outta town (hey!)

Next thing you know (next thing you know)

No kings no more

Happened in Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

Hey, we got three governments rolled into one

Patricians and plebeians havin’ some fun

Two consuls gotta be better than one

Brand new republic ready to run

Democracy

Aristocracy

Plus monarchy

Not a tyranny

Ho-o-o-old up wait a minute, do I see what I think I… hey!

That’s a Roman legion clear as day

5000 soldiers not in it for pay

Group of eighty’s a century

On horseback is the cavalry

Shield, sword, dagger, and armor and tunic

Fightin ’gainst Carthage in wars that are Punic

Hannibal riding on elephant back

Crossing the Alps just to launch his attack

So now you get the picture (picture)

All the rich are getting richer (richer)

And they’re livin’ on the latifundia

Farmers can’t cope (They just can’t cope)

They’re low on hope

They moved to Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

I can hear the brothers Gracchus

Sayin, “Rich, please don’t attack us” (don’t attack us)

“We got a feeling that the senators will whack us” (hey!)

They hit the floor (they hit the floor)

Next thing you know

It’s civil war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war

Hey, let me take you back to 60 BC

It’s the start of the rise of Julius C

He grabbed two dudes and he formed a team

It’s a triumvirate -- that’s a group of three

“Crassus (come on), Pompey (come on), I’m JC! (come on)

We three will rule!

What you think I'm playin, baby girl? I'm the man!

I'm conquering Gaul!”

All of his soldiers gave him their devotion

That’s why he swept over Gaul just like an ocean

Pompey couldn’t understand all the commotion

When he crossed the Rubicon, he kept up motion

It’s just like a potion

Caesar had self-locomotion

Power’s an ambitious emotion

Dictator is not a demotion

It’s promotion

But in 44 BC (BC)

On a day called March 15 (Ides of March)

Brutus and the Senate murdered Julius C

He hit the floor (he hit the floor)

Next thing you know

Caesar’s no more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more

You know he’s so depressed

23 stab wounds in his chest (in his chest)

He saw his friend and he raised one last protest (hey!)

“Et tu, Brute?” (Et tu, Brute?)

That’s what he say

Cuz he felt low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

Only eighteen, Octavian makin’ the scene

He says, “I tell you what,

Got a new triumvirate

Here’s my boy Lepidus

And Mark Antony I trust”

(‘Til Marky met this chick

Cleopatra from Egypt)

Octavian was freakin’

Lust for power started peakin’

“Don’t try to play me or my navy,

At Actium you won’t slay me”

“O” won that game

Did explain

Now Augustus was his name

All his subjects did proclaim

He’s in the Roman Hall of Fame

Twenty-seven BC (BC)

For a couple hundred years (207)

Pax Romana is the word that brings the cheers (Yay!)

They’re on a roll (they’re on a roll)

They built some roads

Leading to Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

Slaves don’t have many rights and

Then there’s gladiator fightin’ (OW!)

People find the Circus Maximus excitin’ (hey!)

Blood on the floor (knee-deep in gore)

And now you know

All about Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

(C'mon!)

#31 Greece Rap and Test Review!

Today in Western Civilization when we first went in Mr. Shick and his daughter Martha did a rap about Greece to Low by Flor-Rida. He called himself Chi-Cago and the rap was actually really good and it was a great way to learn but still keep everyone interested! It was funny and catchy and has been stuck in my head all day. After that, we got our tests back and went over them out loud. We also corrected them! I got an 87 so I only got two wrong and those two were: #4. Alexander had a unique relationship with his mother. Name her. And the answer was Olympias. I knew that one because that’s what some of my PowerPoint was about, but for some reason I wrote Athena! And then I got one of the continents and put Egypt, even though that’s a country. Other than that, I got them all right and Mr. Schick said I was one of the only ones who went into detail about where the elephant battle was at because most people put India, but I put Hydaspes because that was the specific battle! I’m really happy with my grade and glad I’m doing well! J       

Blog #30 LO-1 City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic Notes!

• The Romans not only imitated the Greek civilization but also improved on it, at least so far as government and warfare were concerned. DEMOCRACY
• About 500 BC, Rome became a Greek style city state and was no longer ruled by kings, but the Republic (Roman government system) was more stable and effective than any in Greece for several centuries
• Augustus Caesae managed to turn military rule into a workable system of government by one man

Italy and It's Peoples

• MAP ON PAGE 50 OF ITALY COMPARED TO GREECE (WESTERN)
• Our letters are formed based on how the latins & greeks did it
• LATINS, GREEKS, AND ETRUCANS MOVED TO ITALY BUT THE LATINS CAME FIRST
• During the era of Indo-European migrations when the Hitties moved into Asia Minor and the Greeks into the Aegean other tribes moved to Italy
• There were also Latin settlers, some of which settled near the famous "Seven Hills" around 750 BC these settlements joined to form one city state which was Rome
• The Etruscans- non-Indo European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere to the east about the 9th century BC 
• They gained control of territory, established city states under the rule of kings, and built up a civilization that combined native features and influences from Greece and farther east while they were there
• In the 7th century BC they conquered Latium and for a little while Etruscan kings ruled Rome
• From the etruscans, the Romans adopted such feathures as a gridion street plan for cities, gladitorial combats, and the masonry arch
• Around 500 BC Rome over threw its Etruscan rulers, and the monarchy was also abolished
• "people's business" in Latin is res publica , which is where the word republic came from
• Roman Republic underwent a long and turbulent developement under the influence of social struggles between aristocrats and commoners

Patricians and Plebeians

• the aristocrat side of the Republic was the patricians
• Patricians- Upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families
• Plebeians- everyone who didn't belong to patrician families, including workers, small farmers, & even wealthy citizens (KNOW THE DIFFERENCE)
• Senate- an assembly of about 300 heads of patrician families
• Senates voted on who took over when king died instead of just the next guy in the family
• Consuls (colleagues)- wielding for a year at a time the military and government power that had formerly belonged to the kings
• Dictator- with full power to give orders and make laws for a maximum period of six months
• before the fifth century BC, there had been no written code of law
• About 450 BC, in response to the plebeians' demand, the laws of Rome were set down in writing
• Tribunes- magistrates elected by outside farmers
• Step by step, the patricians gave way to the plebeians, until by 250 BC the distinction between the two groups no longer much mattered in politics and government

"Mixed" Government

• The Roman "mixed" government, as it was called on account of its combination of oligarchic and democratic features
• The separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution derives ultimately from the checks and balances between different branches of government in the Roman city-state
• Clients (hangers-on)- normally less wealthy citizens who were protected and paid by a rich patron in return for personal services and campaigning
• The Senate was originally an oligarchy of birth but became an oligarchy of wealth

Republican Values

• the "mixed government" of Rome, like Athenian democracy and Spartan oligarchy, was not just a government system but part of a way of life
• these deities were the sky-god Jupiter, whome the Romans beleived was the same as the Zeus whom nearby Greek city-states wprshiped; his consort, the fertility goddess Juno (same as Hera); and Minerva (Athena), goddess of skill and wisdom
• Pontiffs- a group of priests headed by the supreme pontiff (pontifex maximus)

Citizens and the Community

• Other values were distinctive to Rome, the qualities that the Romans admired most in the leaders of their city state
• Many stories were told of the simple country life that such men led, & of their contempt for self seeking
• Aorund 450 BC, it was said, when Rome was facing defeat in wars against neighboring tribes, the patrician Cincinnatus was plowing a feild on his farmstead when a deputation arrived to summon him to serve as dictator.

The Community and the Family

• a Roman man belonged first of all to a family and a clan instead of devoting his life to the city-state like in Sparta
• clans were held together by fathers
• Paterfamilias- "family father"
• Genius of the Peterfamilias- the life-giving and life-upholding fatherly power that he embodied
• Matron- a married woman (lady mother)
• Juno- the divine force of fertility and nourishment that she embodied
• Virtus- "manliness"

Alexander the Great Notes for Test!

*The Parentage*

*Alexander The great*
-Born in 356 BC
-Son of Philip
-Philip wasn't his real dad, Zeus was
-Aristotle tutored him in 343 BC
*Aristotle- the head of rhe royal academy of Macedon
-Gave Alex lessons on how to be a leader
-Greeks were his friends but he kicked the Barbarians butt
-Arrogent because of this
*Buscephelus*
-Alex's horse
-name means ox head
-won the horse for $1000's of dollars when he was 12 or 13 years old because he was the only one who could tame it
-if he didn't get it his dad King Philip would have gotten it for himself
*King Philip's Death and Power*
-killed in 336 BC
-Killed by a dagger
killed by Pausanioaus (Philip's Body Guard)
-was killed on the spot by tripping on a vine & was bribed by the Persians to kill him
-Alex had to watch someone kill his father
*Securing Power*
-came to power at the hardest time of Macedon
*Alexander The Great's Military Carreer*
-Battles and their importance
-Asia--> Africa
-he fought his battles with his men, beside them and the Persians wouldn't do that, their leaders njust sat and watched
*Some battles that defined his military carreer were:
BATTLE OF:
- GRANICUS
-ISSUS
-TYRE
-GAUGAMELA (violent & bloody
-All of these were fought during his military campaign in the Asia Minor
-He fought good battles
*Conquering Egypt*
-Conquered all of Egypt in a year
-conquered Egypt when he was 24 years old
*Battling the Persians
-won the war in 4 years & was soon faced by his own troops
*PERSIANS LOST*
-troops moved toward Indian subcontinent after the conquered Persia
* Alex invaded (attacked) India
-People would rather give up than tight bc they know they wont win
-named the city after his horse, Busephalus
*Hydaspes (BATTLE)
-Nandas -  battle on elephants & attack
*Macedonia blunted their courage
-why the men revolted:
*Alex won every battle he was involved in
*THE GREAT DEATH*
-died Hune 10/11, 323 BC
-c 32 years old when he died
-causes of death*
-*POISONING*
-typhoid fever
-Malaria
-Some type of flu
-Alcholholic liver disease
*CHAOS -NO ONE BELEIVED HE DIED* (AFTERMATH)
-Perdiccas was put in charge (body guard & leader of calvary)
*PHILIP III*
-preserved his body in a cofin (jar) of honey