About me

What instruments do you play? I play guitar, trumpet, ukulele, and bass. The first instrument that I started out with trumpet, I practiced a lot and eventually lost my love for it because there wasn’t any music that was appealing to me that I could play on the trumpet. I stopped playing in 7^th grade. In 8^th Grade I took on the guitar and taught myself within a matter of months. I play a variety of music on the guitar, everywhere from Spanish guitar to grungy rock. Guitar is so far my favorite instrument and I want to continue playing. I picked up the guitar a little after I started getting pretty good at guitar, it was easy for me to learn and I continue to play and learn songs. I just recently started playing the bass I like it so far and I want to continue learning the bass. I’m trying to get a band and hopefully play until I get old, but I just want to do it for fun.

Manors, Towns, kingdoms

Feudalism
- Feudalism is the relationship between landowners and warriors.
- Warriors, also known as knights, would pledge to a lord, who would in turn give that knight land
- The lord would grant property to the knight, a servant or slave . This was "Feudal compact"
- The vassal must fight for the lord when he needs it and attend his court once a month.

Homage and Knighthood:
- A vassal was required to pay homage to his lord. This meant kneeling down and taking his hands and spoke and oath of loyalty
- Men are apprenticed to older knights before they could become a full knight themselves
- When a knight died, the lord would take it and wait until a knight was old enough to have the land.

The feudalization of the Church:
- Some clergy fought as knights

Feudal States:
- Barons were territories who paid homage to the King
- Baron's army would some times be bigger than the Kings

The Manorial Estate:
- The medieval society was divided into three estates: The Clergy, the Noble, the Common people
- Peasants would work on huge farms own by the Lady or King
- Iron-plows were a revolutionary tool that helped farms.
- The Iron-plows still did not produce tons of food.
- The "Three field system" was were two fields were planted ( one in fall, one in spring) and one was left to reconstitute its fertility, then were rotated
- People lived in awful comfort, often bringing animals in to their homes for warmth

The People of the Manor:
- The lord oversaw the people
- the lady did "lady" jobs

Trade and Towns:
- Farms produced and animals were sold in towns and people with wealth bought luxury items there
- Most towns were surrounded by walls
- Towns were dominated by a main church and a central marketplace
- Residences also sprang up outside walls in the suburbs.

The life of Townspeople:
- Townspeople were free, unlike serfs, they still had a hierarchy: merchants at the top, then skilled craftsman and artisans.

The Guilds:
- Merchants, craftsman and artisans formed their own groups called guilds which regulated their trade and protected its members
- Craftsmen were masters, journeymen, and apprentices
- Once a master, after spending years learning as an apprentice, working as a paid journeyman for a number of years, and completing his "masterpiece"

5/17/13

After Rome 500 AD- 700 Ad

- The Germanic Barbarians take over and become the Nobels of medievil Europe
- The Angles and Saxons were from Denmark and ivaded Britain and assimilated the culture
- Most of the Anglo- Saxons were converted to Christianity
- The most powerful tribe was the Franks

Eastern Europe
From East of the Empire to Byzantium

- The Eastern Roman empire was doing fine, while the west was being taken over by the Barbarians
-Justinian came into power in 527, he decided to reunite the Roman empire and wanted to conquer the western territory
-He succeeded a little bit, but was taken back over by barbarians

-Greek Byzantine emperors saw themselves as Roman empires and head of the church
-Byzantines kept Roman art, architecture, philosophy and writing despite much of it being non-Christian
-In 537 AD the finished version of the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia was finished
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Rome fades away

This is the era when Rome started to become non-important.

What happened:
Roman territory in the west became way to hard to take care of. It was far away and  barbarians were trying to take over. This took a lot of  energy  to defend and a lot of people.

The fourth century:
- Country dwellers get bankkrupt by endless tax collection
- New farming system: peasents work for landlords on large farms
- Peasant can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords
- Paying off debts and being "allowed" to live on land, in exchange for endless back-breaking work (great deal!)
- Landowners hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than the farawaay empire
- Foreshadowing feudalism

Western empire:
- Rome's power decreased, while barbarians gain power
- Rom becomes too poor, and begins to "forget" about the west
- Huns come from China to eastern Europe
- Visigoths takeover Spain and loot Rome in 410 AD
- Vandals control Carthage

End of Rome:
- 500 B.C the monarchy is abolished
- 450 B.C The twelve tables are established
- 44 B.C end of the line for Julius Ceaser
- 27 B.C- 180 B.C Pax Romana
- The last empire was a teenage boy and was deposed with out even killing him

Questions

Questions that may be on the test.

• What does the word "Gospel" mean?
• What were some examples of letters written by Paul?
• What is another name for Jesus?
• What set Jesus apart from other so called tMessiahs"
• What religions did Jesus partake in?

Questions that will be on the test?

• When was the Pax Romana?
• When did the Edict of Mulia happen?
•  How many people in the army under constantine? 500,000ES
• Why did Jesus target poor people with his message.
• What does Gospel mean? good news

99 problems

Third century

Epidemecs show up through the empire. Barbarians are raiding places in Rome because it is too hard to control. The Emperors begin to lose their power and had a hard time staying alive. The armies were too expensive. Poverty became a huge problems and citizens were upset.

Diocletian

increased the size of the army to 400,000

300 AD
60 million people in Rome
Most are Christian


It was they and them, two religions split Rome

Christianity in Pax Romana

Most of what we know about Jesus' life came from the 4 Gospels. Jesus was a Jewish teacher and was not widely known except for people who heard him speak and were moved by his words. Jesus said we must strive to be perfect for God, but we cannot be perfect and that God shall forgive us if we try hard and are on the right track. People in Rome were getting their land taken away and could not find jobs because there where so many slaves. Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collecters, people that society didn't like, but Jesus said that they were worth something. Jesus gave these people rights and respect. Jesus' people believed that he was the true "Messiah" who came to bring the worthy into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus was killed for claiming he was the Messiah and rose 3 days later. Paul spreaded the word of Jesus after he was knocked off his donkey and Jesus told him to stop persicuting his people and became blind. When Paul agreed to stop, Pauls sight was restored and Paul became a follower of Jesus.

Tiberius Graccus

Tiberius arrived in Spain and fought Carthage. The newmantides won battle after battle. Tiberius was forced to make peice with Spain and returned home to Rome non-vitorious. Tiberius was to sit bfore the senate to await hs punishment. One of the senators stood up for Tiberius and the general to whom Tiberius was taking orders from was punished. Tiberius marries one of the senators daughters. He does this for political power because the Senate was not on his side. Tiberius promised people land and wanted the people to vote, but was vetoed before he could do anything, Tiberius then put the Government at a standstill and the senate is thinking about killing Tiberius.

Rome notes

146 Bc- Rome attacks Carthage. This is Tiberius' chance to proove himself and not just be dads little boy. Rome won the war against Carthage and Tiberius became king and Rome destroyed Carthage and looted the city. Rome then started to hate the Plebians because there has to be a central focus point.

Chi-cago

Carthage and Rome share the island inbetween Carthage and Rome. Rome wins the first punic war.  Rome holds off Carthage and wins second punic war. Rome destroyed Carthage. Punic wars Rome wins all three. While the armies where fighting, the rich would help the poor out.

4/18

The Latins gave us our alphabet, they came to Rome first. They should rule becasue they were in the perfect location. Tarquin was the last king of Rome, old school type tyrant. He was harsh to the people and not very fair. The Romans loved how the Greeks did things, they modeled almost everything the Greeks did. They decided to get rid of the whole monarchy. Romans moved to democracy. They combined everything together to make respublica (latin for the people's job), combination of 3 governments. They formed the senate, 300 people, they made laws and interprated laws. There were a lot more common people than the rich people. When they first formed the government, it was the rich people ruled everything, rich people on knew the laws and the common people were punished because they didnt know the laws, the common people did the 12 tables and fought against the rich to tell the and keep them informed about the laws. The 12 tables was almost like the 10 ammenments, but it told the common people what the rules were and what the punishments were if they broke a law. The romans liked the idea of a monarchy, but they didnt like how they couln't kick someone out. the common people could veto, the senate elected new people every year.

LO2

-       The Romans where war like people whos first wars were against the Etruscans, Italian tribes, and barbarians.
      
-      After the Romans settled, they looked for allies an new land. The Roman military was exceptional friendly to the enemies.
   
-       Defeated enemies were often made allies and basically became a Roman citizen.

-       They controlled the Italian peninsula

-       The Roman Colonist were jubiliant about the rights of citizenship because it was almost the same as being a true citizen who lived in Rome itself.
     
-       The Allies wanted full citizenship, these were denied

-       Rome became an expanding, absoptive political entity

THE PUNIC WARS
-       By 250 B.C Rome conquered most of Italy, now this brought another rival city

-       Carthage was founded in 700 B.C by Pheonician colonists.

-       Carthage was a lot like Rome and had spred it's influences to North Africa, southern Spain, Corsica, and Sicily.

-       The wars happened between 264-146 B.C(three rounds)

-       The second punic war happened in 202 B.C

-        The third war happened in 146 B.C

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3/20/2013

Today in Western civ, we reviewed on what the deffinition of Hellenistic was. Hellenistic is the time preiod in which Greece ruled most of everything in the Medditeranian. We looked on why Athens lost the Peloponisian war. We started on a project about Alexander the Great. I was always very intrested in him. He never lost a war and died suddenely at age 32. Most people thought that he was the greatest war general of all time and was the son of Zeus. he did a lot of great things for Greece to make it what it is today.

78-82

Hellenistic- "Inernational period" of Greek history when much of the Medditerrenean and southwestern aisa was under Greek rule.




Athens was the stongest city-state and Sparta had a strong military. Athens one strong point was it's navy. Athens plan was to surround Sparta, but the exact opposite happened. Athens lost their ships and was unable to get any other resources. Sparta held on and the "Black Death" wipped out most of Athens people. In 205 BC the spartans destroyed the Athenian fleet. In 413 BC Athens lost two thirds of it's fleet. Then the Black plague killed their highest leader. This strongly hurt Athens because there was no one leader an it was complete chaos. After the Black Plague, Athens did not have enough people nor resources to continue with the war and eventually lost the war.



359 BC- Was the time of the pre Julian Roman Calender. The Macedonian king is killed and Pericleas dies.

LO1

             The Barbarians from sumeria and egyptian homeland eventually branched out to other parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Most people still lived in a prehistoric age after the agricultural revolution. Every one thought of these people to be slaves and theives. A Barbarian is a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C. Before this, peoples lives were advancing rapidly. In 4000 B.C farming and villages had come with an increase . By 3500 B.C came a higher population and wealth. People started becoming more independant from their tribes. A tribe is a social and politica, unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common intrests, traditions and real or mythical ties and kinship.
As population and wealt increased, more stucture of political and religious uses started popping. They had money to trade for resources, and the people to build it. These stuctures are called maglithic stucturs and some are still standing today. A megalithic structure is a massive rough-cut stone to construct tombs and monuments. Languages and common sense started to show with the barbarians. Armies and massive governments were formed. Rituals for burial were extreme. Still the main business of life was farming. Groups of villages or farmsteads formed tribes and trade was exploded with different tribes. Tribes formed relationships with kings or queens for battle.

1/30/13

Today in west civ, we took a pop quiz on prehistory. This quiz consisted of five questions. I was refreshed on what trhe first tools were and when first villages started showing up. Mr. Schick let us use the rest of our class time to write notes down on egypt. I learned a lot of intresting facts about eygpt and it helped me understand what life was like on the Nile. Egypt was one of the most advanced civilizations since Mesopatamia, the nile was a way of trade and life. Egypt had a government and a beleif in religion. They lasted for over 1000 years without internal conflict but were defeated after countless battle against foreign enemies.

notes on egypt

In the Neolithic age, people that live in the nile moved towards civilized spots. These Egyptian settlement were more stable than those of Mesopatamia. Political, foreign and sectional conflicts usually never occured and cultural influences were welcome. The country was so strong that it flourished for thousands of years, until countless attacks made their civilization shut down. Most of these villages were near the nile river, Because Egypt has a very hot climate and people need water to survive.

Geographic luck

John Perry

                Jared Diamond’s theory of geographic luck has little or no difference in what the book says. Jared Diamond has traveled across the planet looking for the answer he was asked in Papua New Guinea, “Why you white men have so much cargo, and us New Guineans so little? “ The answer is geographic luck. Thousands of years ago when advanced civilization started showing up, it was clear where this was happening. The fertile Crescent was the best place to be and was where the most developed civilizations sprouted. This started with a working government, shelter, and a good source of food and water. Papua New Guineans live in such an isolated place, that there are no crops to be grown. The soil is not rich enough. As for the Americans, they are highly advanced. Places with the same latitude share the same climate. Between 8000-4000 B.C was the Agricultural revolution. People started going from hunter gatherer to builder shelters with homes. This is all a result of geographic luck.

First Day of Western civ

Today was our first day of western civ. I am very intrested in this class and excited to get started. Mr.Schick showed us what we would be learning and helped us set up our new blogs. We got new books and i took a look in it and it looks very cool.

Class participation

I feel like i've done a pretty good job at being enthusiastic and being a part of the class and the disscussions. I would give myself a 90 because most of the time i am answering questions and asking questions, but some days im pretty lazy. I like to talk in class disscusions and work with groups.

Papua New Guinea

Today we did a report on Papua New Guinea, we learned that this country is putting 49 out of 50 people to work, which is amazing. This country has the 12th fastest growing economy. Papua New Guinea has a military and even an Air Service, they have helicopters and light airplanes, the legal age to be in the Army is 16 and there are over three million people ready to be drafted. Their is Net migration rate is zero. The number one religion in Papua new Guinea is Roman Catholic. Papua New Guinea is below the poverty line but they still want no help from the government. There are 2.4 million cell phones being used in a country with 6.2 mllion people. About 50% of people live in urban areas. The three main sports are Soccer, Rugby, and Cricket. Internet use is 125,000 out of 6 million.

Guns,Germs, and Steel

Guns,Germs, and Steel was a book wrote about the fate of humanity, it earned the Pulitzer Prize and multi million seller and there has been a documentary made out of it. Why some societies progress and just get stuck. Society needs buisness and trade and an infrasturcuture. Papua New guinea( the country Jared Diamond traveled to ) is very indigidous and still lives in t.he stone age, they are not aware of anyone outside of their country

Why Mr.Schick has us studying Jared Diamond

Mr.Schick may have us studying Jared Diamond because he was a philosipher in geography. Jared Diamond is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio geographer. Mr.Schick obviously likes this man, They both work in the same field. He has his doctorates from Harvard university. Dr.Diamond also is an author and works in many other fields. Dr.Diamond wrote many books and has 3 fan pages in Facebook. His a scientist at UCLA. Born in Bostin. PHD in Philosophy and Geography. Hes been to Papua new guinea.