The Roman Family Life

The Roman’s family life was based religion, values, and the community. They believed in many gods and goddesses that are similar to Greeks gods and goddesses. They believed in the three deities, whose joint temple was on the Capital. The deities were the sky-god of Jupiter, the fertility goddess Juno, and the goddess of skill and wisdom Minerva. They also believed in another goddess named Vesta, the goddess of hearth and home. In every house, the fire in the hearth was scared to Vesta and it was only put out when a family moved. The responsibility of maintaining peace of the gods was done by the pontiffs. Pontiffs are one of the Republics leading priests.

 They believed in many values. They believed that it was right and a duty of man of the community to fight in wars. A women had no right to share in politics and government. Also, Romans must admire in the leaders of their city-states.

             In the community, a Roman man belonged to a family and a clan. The families and clans were held together by paterfamilias. They are the family fathers in Rome, who had unlimited power over the household. In Rome, a married women had the title of matron. This is an honor to have this title. The ideal matron was very hard working, gave courage to warriors, and gave devotion to the men. Women were accepted to make sure that man had the qualities they needed to keep the Republic strong.

3/26/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s west civ. class, we took a test. I think that I did well but I am not sure. I missed three questions. I got confused about the names of the kings and generals. It took me a long time to think about the questions. I was really happy to hear that we could use blogs. That helped me a lot. I knew most of the information on the front of the work sheet though. It was just nice to be able to check back on answers that we did not know. I hope I did well on the test. I just want to start off the quarter with an A or a B.

3/25/14

            Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class, we talked about the test tomorrow. You said that it was going to have 40 questions on it. It would be multiple choice and fill in the blanks. It is going to be on the gods and poets work sheet. It will be on the video too. I hope that this test will be easy. I am going to have to study for it a lot. I left school early today because I had a game so I missed some of the review. This whole years feels like it is going by so quickly. It is crazy to think that it is already march and almost April. I would like to have at least second honors all year.

3/24/14

Today I was not in class today because I came in late.

3/22/14

            On Friday in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class, we watched our videos again and graded them. We also made some comments about them to. I enjoyed many of the videos. Most of them I would at least give a 87- to an 100. Many people had many nice things to say. They gave us an 92. I was very happy when I saw my grade. I got an 95. That’s really good and I am very proud of it. I also saw that it moved up my grade to an 90 which is awesome. I hope I will be able to get first honors. I think I might be able to. It all depends on my grade in Spanish. It is my goal to at least make first honors once.

3/19/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s class, we looked over some notes and went over the answers to the problem. You had us work in our rows. In my row, there was Taylor, Bradley, and Aiden. You had us say the questions out loud in class and we went over the answers. In class today, we had a shadow. We also talked more about Greece. I think we have a test on Friday but I am not sure what it is on. I think it will be on the worksheet our the information on our blogs. I hope the quiz will be easy. I would like my grade to become an A so I hope I do well.

3/18/14

Today in Mr. Schick's west civ. class we did not really do to much. I worked on my blog most of the time. We all just kind of sat quietly and did our on thing. I really enjoyed just having a class we did not have to do much in. I could do what I wanted and not have to worry about anything else. It feels like we haven't been in class for weeks. I enjoy being off from school, but the cyber days are so much work. I started working yesterday at 11 and ended at 4:30, 5 o clockish. It is just a pain sometimes. I would rather come to school then have to stay at home and work. I could be doing much better things. but I am glad to be back in class.

3/17/14

1. Mostly fertile land is not a characteristic of Greece.

2. Approximately ¾ of Greece is covered by mountainous.

3. Barbarian is a life based upon farming, warfare, and tribal organization.

4. Megalithic are massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs

5. A tribe is a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, tradition, and real or mythical ties of kinship. All of the above!!

6. Tribes were governed by warrior kings or queens.

7. The first European barbarian people to make contact with civilization were the Greeks.

8. China would not be considered a member of the western civilization.

9. The Aegan Sea is located east of the Greeks mainland.

10. The Ionian Sea is located west of the Greek’s mainland.

11. The major crops the Aegean people lived on are grains, vines, and olives.

12. Minoan civilization arose on the island of Crete.

13. Mycenaean’s established settlements along the Greek mainland southern shore and on some islands.

14. The Mycenaean people built massive walls to protect themselves from attack.

15. The Dark Age is when the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use.

16. The Greeks joined the Phoenicians.

17. c means around, about, and circa. all the above

18. these were called colonies

19. they are like counties

20. A oligarchy is were a small group of citizens dominated, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways.

21. A democracy is a form of government in which decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens.

22. A tyranny is a form of government in which a self-proclaimed dictator held power.

23. A monarchy is a form of government in which power is held by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son.

24. Spartans used oligarchy.

25. Boys were taken by the age of seven to begin their military training.

26. Athens was the wealthiest city-state.

27. An acropolis was the high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town.

28. Sparta is located on the Peloponnesus peninsula.

29. Triremes were massive fighting ships with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships.  

30. Hoplite was a heavily armed and armored citizen-solider of ancient Greece.

31. The Dark ages began c. 1100 b.c. and ended c. 700 b.c.

32. He wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey.

33. The word “Mediterranean” originally meant middle of the earth

34. Aristocrats were prominent and long-established Athenian land-owners.  

3/15/14

On Friday in Mr. Schick's West Civ. class, we watched a movie. this movie was about the story   of Pheidippides; the wars with Darius, Xerxes and the Persians; the brilliant leader Themistocles; the mysterious Oracle of Delphi; the battle in the Straits of Salamis; and the Golden Age of Greece. It was all very interesting. My favorite part was the mystery's of Oracle of Delphi. It was a very interesting topic and I enjoyed it a lot. I also really enjoyed learning just about the Golden Age. The time was filled with war and excellence. I still really liked doing the video it was very fun actually.

3/12/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s west civ. class we watched more of peoples commercials. As a class I think that we all did really well. Even though I thought It was going to be a pain, it was really not to bad. I am pretty happy with everything ava and I did on the project. It makes me wonder what other stuff we are going to do later in the year. I enjoyed learning about the Greeks too. I just think as a whole they are pretty cool people. I like Athens better. The Spartans are pretty intimidating people. Everything that they do are very intense. Watching the videos Athens just looks more appealing to me. I think that Nat’s video was pretty cool. She had many videos and pictures and I liked the music a lot. I am looking forward to what we are going to learn next.  

3/11/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class we watched some of the commercials. You showed Ava and I’s video. I was very proud about it. I think we did very well. We got to watch Hana’s, Ryan’s and Wills, and Austin’s. They all did really will. I liked how some of them had a video in it. Some had some good facts too. I am interested to see what grade I got. I think that you really enjoyed our video. You said that we had many pictures and you liked our music. I really liked the song we picked too. It was very up beat and it had a nice beat. I am really looking forward ot watching the others videos. I like to compare what I did compared to what they did. I also like to see that new thing they can come up with.

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class we worked on our projects a little more. My group did not have to do that much because we finished it over the weekend. I think we did really well. We put a lot of time and effort into this project and I hope we get a good grade on it. I learned much information about Athens and the ancient world that the lived in. I learned about land, life, the Olympics, Navy, and the beauty that they had in Athens. They had very cool structures of buildings. I learned about the Parthenon. The Parthenon is a temple of the Athenian Acropolis. It was dedicated to the goddess, Athena. She is considered the patron deity of the people of Athens. I learned that the Olympics were in honor of the God, Zeus. The Greek gods and goddesses are all very unique in their own way.

3/7/14

Today I was not in school because I was sick.

3/5/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class, we took some more notes and watched the video about ancient Greece. I never realized how tuff the Spartans were. They were the color red so if they were injured or bleeding you would not be able to tell. They eat tuff food and just seemed intimidating. I know I would not want to go against the Spartans. They would take in helots and use them as there slaves. Helots are people that lost the war against the Spartans. They were very harsh on them. In the video we see a worker looking very tired and the work goes up to him, and probably threatens him, and he starts to work up again. If I lived back in the time of ancient Greece I would defiantly live in Athens. They seemed like much calmer and less intense people.

8/18/14

Today in Mr. Schick’s West Civ. class we started the class watching the video you made for our cyber day. It was a nice video. Ava and I have started to work on our project. We are making a video. It is going pretty well so far. At first I was dreading this project, but it is actually pretty easy. If you use an app it is very simple. You just have to look up information about Athens or Sparta and then find pictures or videos and put it together. The most fun was picking out music to go with it. Like you were saying we need an upbeat song and I think I found the perfect one. We also have to do the outline of what are video is about. I dint think it will take very long. Later in class we started to watch a video about the gods and great people of ancient Greece.  

3/3/14

Today we did not have school today.