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Today we took a test. Twas much harder than I expected. Im not sure how I did on it.

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Today I was sick.

The Germanic Kingdoms.

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The middle ages, also known as the medieval era, was the era succeeding the reign of the Roman Empire. This era lasted for nearly a thousand years form 476 to 1453.

This new society is an amalgamation of the old Roman customs and traditions, customs of the Germanic tribes, and the Religion known as Christianity.

During the fifth century, the Roman Empire was in shambles, on their last knee. They were just about done to put it lightly, especially when they were being invaded by Germanic tribes whom their measly leftovers of an army couldn't handle anymore. As a result of the invasions, law broke down and the rides were no longer safe to travel. This led to a lack of trade routes and so the trading industry broke down. Without trade, there were hardly any jobs available in cities, and so the citizens began leaving the cities to find work in rural areas, farming and working the land.

During this time, culture also began to kind of reverse in an evolutionary sense. Instead of getting smarter as we had been for thousands of years, the average human being in Europe became dumber. Most people didn't know how to read an write, a skill common and essential in the old Roman Empire. Those who could write were usually priests and nuns, as they had to read scripture and copy books. Average people told stories through the classic way of oral tradition. around this time the romance languages began to develop as well. France, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.

In the beginning of this era, there was no central government. A lord would own a large chunk of land in which a few hundred people would work and live. He would hire soldiers and they would basically be their own little country. There were hundreds of these, not united by any king.

There was an exception though, as Clovis ruled the Germanic people of Gaul, known today as France. During a battle in 496, him and 3000 of his soldiers convert to Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church thinks this is awesome. By 511 the Franks are united into one Kingdom.

Pretty Cool.

The Crusades. Not totally radical.

During this time the Holy Roman Empire is among the largest an most powerful. The Catholic Church has the most power it has ever seen.

In the late 11th century, Jerusalem, the Holy city for all three Abrahamic religions, was controlled by the Muslims.

In 1093, Emperor Alexius Commenus wrote a letter to Pope Urban II, encouraging him to send his troops and supplies to help win back the holy land. In a way he was kind of guilting the Pope into helping him, saying god would condemn those who do not help, and would reward those who do.

Pope Urban listened, and form 1095 to 1291 the crusades, military campaigns aimed at taking back Jerusalem, were waged.

The soldiers took vows to take back the holy land and the Pope promised those who helped take back the holy land would receive immediate remission for their sins.

There were 9 crusades, which saw the capture and loss of the city from both sides several times. The fighting even continued outside the city, as Christians and Muslims fight at other cities as well.

COME ON GUYS, STOP FIGHTING ALREADY.

Jesus Christ Amen Hallelujah.

Today in class we talked about cool boy Jesus Christ. The freshest, funkiest Messiah the world has ever seen. He's a pretty cool guy. One time he gave me a high five on a motorcycle through my car window. Another time he he hang out with me and my pals and he told us some crazy wild stories about all the fun stuff he did back in the day. He said that one time he got pulled over by a legionnaire   on the side of the road for speeding, and he got out of by saying, " Hey, I'm Jesus, chill bro." Jesus then gave him a fresh fish and they were best friends. The legionnaire's name was Ocobulus Monoboboluvus. Then they went on crazy adventures.


Ok that obviously didn't happen, or did it?
No it didn't.

Anyway, Jesus is cool, and he wasn't a caucasian. It's impossible.

Some kind of goose I guess?

Today I was sick. See ya later.

Notes on Chachachachachachachachachachachacharlemagne. aka lil' Charlie

Charlemagne became emperor of the Frankish kingdoms after Pepin The short, his father, died in 768. Then his brother died in 771. He was especially tall for the time, standing at 6 feet 4 inches, very ironic when you consider his father's nickname.

Charlemagne built an Empire to rival that of Ancient Rome's. Each summer he led armies against his enemies to conquer new territory. Through the conquests, he further spread Christianity.

He reunited Central Europe for the first time since the days of the Roman Empire. By 800, his empire was bigger than the Byzantine Empire. He was the most powerful king in Europe.

When lil' charlie defende Pope Leo III against an angry mob, he was named crowned emperor.  This was a first in history as the Pope had given himself the right to name someone the Roman Empire. This marked a beginning of the joining of Germanic power, the church, and the heritage of Rome's Empire.

One year before he died in 814, lil' Charlie named his son,  Louis the Pious, as emperor. Louis was a very religious, man as well as an effective leader.

WARNING! EXTREMEMLY VOLATILE POST. DO NOT TOUCH.

Today we took a test. It was ok I guess.

I can't find the turtle.

Today we took some more notes about Julius Caesar....and...um..emperorrrrs....and........fSgsbsfjmhg
jfxfzgSDvVSBFSBDrb6hvc 66tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Oops sorry, fell asleep for a moment there. Anyway we learned about really weird perverted emperors, and dumb looking, drooling, shaking emperors, who surprisingly got the job done. There was Augustus Caesar who carried on the legacy of Julius after becoming emperor. He became emperor by pretty much getting rid of any other political adversary who would be opposed to him taking so much power. For instance, Mark Antony, who committed suicide after his armies were defeated by Augustus. Anyway, there's a squirrel eating those peanuts I left outside, so I have to go.

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Today we took more totally radical notes about Julius Caesar and Pompey, and stuff. Julius backflipped across the Rubicon and landed with a thumbs up. Rome didn't find this impressive and Caesar took control with his Legions of totally radical dudes. Caesar formed the triumvirate, with his bros Pompey and Carrot. HE WAS THE COOLEST AND HE WAS REALLY COOL!

Radical Blog Time.

Today we took some totally radical notes about Rome n' stuff. It was super cool, and they were the best notes ever! I learned about Roman Politics snd all sorts of wacky, crazy stuff. Those darn plebeians were really, super sad about their lad being sold after they went to war and couldn't tend to their farms. They moved to the city to find jobs but guess what! There were none! All the good jobs had been taken by the slaves who didn't get payed at all, so the business owners had no reasons to hire citizens that they would need to pay. Totally not radical. Also slavery is bad. The government feared possible plebeian uprising and created public entertainment and offered free food. Cooooolllll!
For the most part, it worked too! Everyone was distracted by freed cheese and blood and guts is the colosseum. Ewwww. Well goodbye everyone, and death to Marmalade!

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Today we continued working on our project. I've still yet to decide on what I'll do but I do have an idea. Some kind of fake documentary with me as the narrator. or I'll just do a powerpoint because I'm boring. Either way I hope it turns out good.




Oh yeah, by the way, this is a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger ausf E. Not sure why I made it the title, it just kind of happened.

Cats.

Today in class we started working on our projects for after Spring Break. I decided to work with myself, a difficult choice considering how hard it is to get along with that crazy rascal. No but seriously, it's not because I don't like working with other people, it's because I tend to get more work done alone. Also I tend to disagree with some of the choices when working in groups. Good, glad we've gotten that straightened out.........Who am I talking to? As for the project itself I haven't decided what I'm doing yet. So all I can say for now is guten tag und auf wiedersehen.

Rome's super fantastically awesome empire.

Civil War - a conflict between two groups of people within one country. A violent civil war followed the death of two brothers named Teberius and Gaius. They were two political figures who attempted to help Rome's poor by making reforms and giving land to the poor.

Julius Caesar - joined forces with Crassus and Pompey to be elected consul. these three men ruled Rome as a triumvirate, or group of three rulers. Caesar eventually turned on his old friend Pompey after being told to disband his legions, killing him and marching on to Rome. When he returned home  he had the support of the military and most of the civilians. In 44 BCE he was named dictator, then eventually dictator for life. During his short career, Caesar made several reforms helping the common citizens, rather than the wealthier people.  Several people feared losing power, others viewed him as a tyrant. Cesar was assassinated by a group led by Marcus Brutus on March, 15 44 BCe.

After Caesar's death civil war broke out. Among the victors were Mark Antony and Octavian. The eventually became political rivals after 10, years, their brutal feud ending in Antony's suicide. Octavian is named "Augustus" and is Rome's first official empire.

Pax Romana - the period of peace throughout the roman empire from 27 BCE to A.D 180. 207 years of peace and prosper except for border disputes with tribes on the edge of the empire.

Llamas are cool.

Can't remember what we did today, It must have been a pretty forgettable class. I don't remember taking down any important notes, but maybe I did. Oh wait no! Well, I forgot to mention in my Glorious Russian Post yesterday that Schick-ago came and performed. It was a mediocre performance at best. I really expected more form such a talented musician.

But seriously, I thought we took some notes, but I can't find any, so I guess we didn't. Or we did, and I lost them.  Oh wait, yeah we looked at some pictures of the founders of rome and a wolf in some pretty disturbing situations. ewww. Of course these were Rome's founders only according to legend.

Well, all I can say now is have a great day and stay golden!


Did I seriously say "Oh wait" twice? I need to widen my vocabulary.

Garrett's Glorious Russian Post

Сегодня в классе мы не делали много, за исключением делать заметки , учиться и играть на наших компьютерах . Я , конечно же , только делал заметки и учился , потому что я звезда студент . Определенно.

Translation - we really didn't do much except study an take a few notes.

Republic - Rome's political system for most of it's life was a republic.

Patrician - they were the wealthy groups of  powerful landowners who struggled for power against the Plebeians in ancient Rome.

Plebeians - the common farmers merchiants, and artisans who made up the majority of the population of Ancient Rome.

Tribunes - were assemblies formed by the Plebeians to protect their rights form the acts of the patrician officials.

consuls - Rome had two of them, they were like kings who commanded Rome's armies and directed the government.

senate - the aristocratic branch of Rome's government. It had legislative, and administrative functions in the REPUBLIC! Eventually Plebeians were allowed to have seats in the office.

A dictator - has absolute power over the people and government. Early Rome had several dictators.

legions - one of Rome's most effective formations used throughout their empire to conquer other lands and cities.

Punic Wars - the war between Carthage and Rome over control of land.

Hannibal - a brilliant Carthaginian military strategist who's goal was to avenge Carthage's earlier defeat.

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Today in class we pretty much just did what we wanted. We went over some stuff for the test but that was about it. We could study or just mess around on our computers. Try to guess which one I did.

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Today in class we came up with questions for the test. Here are some of mine.



What was the name of Alexander's trusty steed.

a. Silver
b. Phil
c. Bucephalus
d. He didn't ride a horse, he rode an ostrich.


Who was the Persian King murdered by one of his officers and why was he killed?


How large was the Macedonian phalanx.

a. 1 x 1
b. 10000000 x 10000000
c 16 x 16
d. cat x cat


What did the Macedonian soldiers yell to taunt their enemies.

a. A-bloolgy woogly woo.
b. a-la-la-la-la-la-ala-la-al-ala-ala-a
c. *beatboxing*
b. they told yo-mamma jokes to infuriate their enemy.

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Today in class I wasn't there. I was home sick. That is all I have to say.

Amazingly incredible post. 10/10. 5 stars. 100%.

So today we continued watching the video on Alexander the great. I mentioned Alexander's Persian conquest in a previous post, so I will be talking about what happened a little bit after that in this one. After conquering most of Persia, Alexander still hadn't had enough. He set foot farther and farther into the east, leading his troops through treacherous mountains, causing the troops' morale to plummet. They had been traveling further and further for EIGHT years and all they wanted to do was go home. He eventually got to India in which he fought a massive battle against adorable little elephants, of DOOM. He was able to trick the Indian soldiers' elephants, and won the battle. However, he admired the Indians' bravery, and gave back their land. On the way back, the monsoons hit. His troops had never seen anything like it. They headed home through the desert, a mistake Alexander made that cost thousands of lives. At this point they were very infuriated with their leader. They were starting to lose lots of respect for him. after he began doing some questionable things. On the way back he made his officers marry Persian brides, an odd order that made the officers even more upset with Alexander. When they reached Babylon, it seems as if Alexander wasn't going any further because he intended Babylon to be the central city of his empire.. This brought his soldiers to the breaking point, because they hadn't seen Greece in over eight years. One night, after heavy drinking, Alexander fell mysteriously ill, and died. It;s a possibility that his officers could have poisoned him for what he had done to them, but it's also possible he died form alcohol poising. He could have even died from a disease, like malaria. We'll never really know.

Incredibly awesome, totally amazing spectacular post.

Today in class we began watching a video on Alexander's conquest. I acquired a lot of important information form said video. For instance, Alexander's mother was really weird and part of a cult that worshipped Dionysus, the Greek god of partying and wine. This weirdness eventually led to King Philip, pushing her to the side and marrying a different woman, eventually another son whom he grew fond of. Alexander, however, was studying with Aristotle at the time and didn't know what was going on. When he returned home after five years of study, he was infuriated that, not only did his father leave his mother, but that his new half brother seemed to be favored by his father as the heir to his thrown. Alexander and his father grew apart due to violent arguments and conflict. On day, at some sort of party or whatever, King Philip was fatally stabbed in the neck by on of his officers, dying almost instantly. Thus, Alexander was free to take the throne, and did just that. A new age of conquest would soon be ushered in.

Super Duper Amazing Spectacular Post of Coolness.

The Spread of Hellenistic Culture. AWESOME!

As a result of Alexander's conquest, Greek culture also known as HelleniC culture, was spread to Egypt, India, and Persia. These cultures blended together like a smoothy. SMOOTHIES ARE AWESOME! This blending created what is known as Hellenistic Culture. It spread across all the major cities of the region, which in my opinion is pretty darn cool. Oh yeah, a dialect of greek was used throughout the regions as well, that's pretty swell.

The Egyptian city of Alexandra became the biggest center for commerce and Hellenistic culture. Being located on the wester edge of the Nile delta, it became a center for trade with it's spacious harbors. this trade made the city grow and prosper into something awesome. By the third century BCE, it was an international community, with rich cultures and customs form Egypt and Greece. The diverse population exceeded 500,000 people. THAT'S A LOT! WOAH. WOOOAAAHHH!

Alexandria had some of the finest and most elegant architecture in the world due to its vast wealth and prosperity. It was among the most impressive cities of the ancient times. It sounds like a really cool place. yeahhhhhhhh!

Super lame, boring, not totally radical post.

Today in class we didn't really do anything that important that I can think of. Maybe we did. I do have a terrible memory. For all I know we could of talked about dogs for fifteen minutes.....................

But anyway, we just did some work silently on our computers.

Alexander and his totally radical empire.

King Philip II, after the Pelopponesean Wars, had his eyes set on invading the weakened Greece, as well as Persia. He wanted to avenge the Persian invasion of Greece as well. Demosthenes warned the Greeks of impending danger form the Macedonian armies. The city states, however, had trouble agreeing on a single policy to unite. By the time they did, it was too late. After defeating the Greeks in many battles, the Macedonians had control over Greece. They were no longer a free people.

Philip had plans to invade Persia next, but was murdered at his daughter's wedding. His son, Alexander, immediately proclaimed himself the King of Macedonia.

Since Greece was secure, Alexander decided to carry out his father's plan to invade Persia. In 334 BCE, he led 35,000 soldiers across the Hellespont into Anatolia. Persian messangers sent word of the army, and an army of about 40,000 men rushed to defend Persia. He won a GLORIOUS VICTORY over the Persians. He went on to defeat even more of Persia's armies despite being greatly outnumbered. Alexander's brilliant battle tactics won the day, not his numbers. He conquered Persia, which was pretty darn cool.

Presentations Day 2.

Today more people presented cut to the fact that we didn't have enough time to have everyone present  the first day. Some of the most interesting information I learned form today's presentations, was about Greek theatre. I learned abut the history and lasting effect on today's theatre. The Greeks focused on two types of Dramas. Tragedies and Comedies. Tragedies were, as the name suggests, tragic. Many characters died over the course of these tragedies. Comedies, again as the name suggests, were comedic. Usually involving one or more comedic character in situations that would relate to the Greek people watching the play. I also learned about the stadiums themselves. How they were enormous stone stairs and seats, fitting thousands of people, surrounding the stage in a kind of half circle. The stage itself was large an impressive, with usually a large stone structure behind the stage. This structure has a particular name, but I forget to copy it down in my notes. Shame on me. Of course there were more presentations today, but that was the one I got the most information from. It was also my favorite. Anyway, have a great day and say golden. Or silver. I guess it's really a preference regarding your favorite precious metal. Me personally, I like silver or even bronze. What am I even talking about? Sorry about that. I can sometimes go off on their random thoughts. But anyway, marmalade is evil, goodbye.

Presentation Day.

Today we presented our google slides about the Delian League. I think it went pretty good, although it seems we had a lot less slides than some of the other presentations. Our slides were good though. We packed a lot of content into them. As for the other presentations today, I learned a good amount of information form them. For example, I learned about Pericles and how he led Athens during its golden age, turning Athens into one of the most beautiful and prominent cities of the time. However, his hubris eventually led him to make terrible decisions. He thought he could take on the city state of Sparta, and failed. He walled his people within Athens for protection, only receiving trade and supplies from the sea. The sea trade eventually brought the plague, decimating Athens' population and leading to constant destress. The plague eventually took his own life, and his son's. So yeah, I got some useful information form their presentations. Of course this isn;t all the information, just the reasonable amount to put in one post. Anyway, have a great day snd stay golden.

Today

Today in class we continued to work on our presentation in slides. Our presentation will be on the Delian League. Hope it goes well.

SUPER RADICAL AWESOME SPECTACULAR POST. Not really though......

The Greek Acropolis was a stone high rise in the center of Athens which housed several iconic and historical buildings.

The Acropolis was used for prayer by the Athenians, or in times of war, protection from invading forces..

The Parthenon was built over 2500 years ago as a temple to the Goddess Athena, the goddess fro which Athens was named.

The Parthenon was ordered to be built by Pericles, an important Greek politician.

Construction began in 447 BCE.

The Parthenon was composed of 30 tons of fine, white marble.

By Doric - style constriction we mean simple, unadorned style characterized by simple columns.

Some things found inside the Parthenon are a 40 foot statue of Athena,

The Parthenon was damaged in 1687 by the Venetians.

post # 7 Super radical party fun time.

1. An aristocracy was a small group of powerful, wealthy landowners in power, while an obligarchy was on a few powerful people in charge. So, they were pretty similar, but slightly different.

2. Solon reformed the set of laws made by Draco, making them less harsh and most importantly not allowing citizens to own the citizens as slaves. Cleisthenes introduced the system of direct democracy  after his supporters overthrew the tyrant that had seized control and banished him from Athens.

3. Living in Athens was different form living in Sparta for several reasons. The first major reason, is that in Sparta, service in the military was mandatory for men starting at the age of seven, while Athens being a Democratic State for most of its reign, had no such rule. Athenian adult men were however, sometimes called to fight in the event of a war. As mentioned before Athens was a Democratic City State, while Sparta had a monarchy of sorts, having two kings ruling the military and several government branches with elected officials. Besides the two kings, it was kind of like a Republic in my opinion...........I say "in my opinion" because I'm not sure, ok!.......jeez. Also the Spartans had LOTS of slaves, while slavery was a big no-no in Athens for most of its history.

Post 6. Athens in it's golden age. Super COOL.

A wise statesman named Pericles led Athens in much of its Golden Age.  He had three goals in ruling Athens. To strengthen the democracy of Athens, to hold and strengthen the ever growing Athenian Empire, and to further glorify Athens. One of Pericles most important acts, was that of introducing Direct Democracy. In a Direct Democracy the citizens rule directly and not through representatives.

After the defeat of Persia in the Persian Wars, Athens organized the Delian League, an alliance of several city states including Athens. Eventually, Athens took over leadership of the league, and dominated all city states within it. The Athenian empire was growing.

Pericles used some of the league's money to create beautiful art and architecture in the city of Athens. Of course, this was without the League's approval, seeing how it was doubtful they would allow this. He persuaded the Athenian assembly to do this, and began to further glorify the awesome, super totally radical, Athenian Empire.

Of course, nothing good ever lasts forever. The Spartans formed the Peloponnesian League and went to war with the Delian League. Both sides fought valiantly, and they eventually signed a truce. Of course, this peace didn't last forever. Athens attacked one of Sparta's closest allies, Syracuse, and failed miserably. There army, navy, everything was wiped out. Very few of Athen's men returned home. They were able to to defend against Spartans attacking Athens for nine years, but eventually the could defend no longer. The Athenians and their allies surrendered. The Golden Age had come to an end.

Post #5 Athens. Democracy. Fun!

Hippias was a tyrant of Athens, who when his brother was murdered, became very paranoid and began a very harsh rule over Athens. Eventually, the people had had enough and ostracized him form the city. In revenge he began working with King Darius I to invade Marathon.

With Hippies out of the picture, two aristocrats named Isagorus and Cleisthenes began to "run for office." Isagoris had support form fellow aristocrats, as well as form Sparta. Cleisthenes had support form the majority of the Athenian people. Isagoris became the tyrant, and ostracized Cleisthenes from the city. However, Cleisthenes' supporters and the ordinary citizens of Athens revolted against Isagoris' tyranny. THIS WAS THE FIRST TME A PEOPLE REVOLTED AGAINST THEIR LEADER IN RECORDED HISTORY! They trapped Isagoris on the acropolis for two days and on the third day he fled and was banished. The date of all this cool stuff was 508 BCE.

Cleisthenes', now in power, saw the value of the knowledge and talents of everyday citizens, and the seeds of DEMOCRACY were planted.

Post Number #4

In the seventh and sixth centuries, BCE, aristocrats were the dominate political power. Aristocrats were wealthy landowners, who had political power and control of the people of a city state simply due to the fact that they were wealthy and influential.

Aristocrats attended meetings in the symposium, a kind of fancy meeting room within a palace, where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry and performances by dances and acrobats. These men also had the company of prostitutes, in the modern terminology.

In Aristocratic society, the women held no power and were not welcomed in the Symposium, unless they were entertainers. No people from the middle class, even men, were allowed to have power. There were certainly no slaves even with little power or voice. Sometimes, even other Aristocrats were cast out, due to there opinions regarding certain issues, or even if they starting running low on wealth and falling out of favor with other Aristocrats. These excludes Aristocrats would sometimes team up with Hoplite, elite soldiers, to overthrow the others and set up a form of government known as a tyranny.

A leader of a tyranny was known as a tyrant, but not in the modern sense. A tyrant was simply someone who assumed power in the way mentioned before.

Blog #3

Notes for Ancient Greece:

Mycenaeans - their influence began around 200 B.C. Mycenae was located on a rock ridge on Peloponnesus, protected by a 20 for thick. Mycenaean king dominated Greece form 1660-1100 BCE. They controlled trade in the region.

In 1440 BCE, the Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture.


The Trojan War.

The Trojan war is believed to have been fought in the 12th or 13th century BCE. It was thought to only be part of Greek mythology until the 19th century when evidence of a real war during the assumed time period it occurred was found. The reason people thought of it as a myth was due to the fact that the story of the Trojan War had to do with a quarrel between the Gods and Goddesses when Paris decided to judge who among the Goddesses was the fairest. Paris judged Aphrodite as the fairest, who then made Helen fall in love with Paris, who took her back to Troy. This is how, in Ancient Greek Mythology, the Trojan War started.

But now today, we do know for a fact there was some kind of large scale war fought in the time period. It's highly likely the Trojan War was a real conflict in Ancient Greece.

Around 2000 BCE, a mysterious culture only known as "the sea people" began to invade Mycenae and burn down palaces and other buildings.

The Dorians, seeing an opportunity, moved into the war torn region and claimed it as their own, dominating form 1150 - 750 BCE.

Of course, the Dorians weren't necessarily beneficial to Ancient Greek society. The Dorians were far less advanced than the Mycenaeans and other Greek states. They hadn't developed the skill of writing, and due to this, the art of writing disappeared for 400 years in the Dorian dominated region. They also eliminated one of the best economies of the Ancient world by allowing the trade business to collapse. These times were known as the "Dark Ages." We have little knowledge of what actually happened during these dark ages due to the lack of written records.

There was, however, one man, or possibly several people, who are believed to have composed and passed down the famous stories of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey".  The man most associated with creating and telling these stories through Greek Oral Tradition, was a blind wanderer named Homer. It is said that he would go from town to down, presenting his incredibly long stories to audiences, in return for money, food clothes, etc. Whether Homer existed is still a mystery. It seems that he, in the classical sense, may be some kind of mythological figure. A blind man who wanders around, telling amazing, detailed stories of the warriors and adventurers of the past, seems like some kind of Hero form Greek mythology.

If Homer possibly didn't create these stories, then who did? Some theories suggest the stories are a product of several people telling different and similar stories, which through centuries of Oral Tradition, developed and amalgamated into what we now call The "Iliad" and "Odyssey".



That's it for now, have fun reading.

On Friday I was home sick. I still have a bit of a cold actually. Anyway, Socrates is cool. Have a good day.

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Notes for Greece.

In ancient times, Greece was not a united country. It was composed of several separate city states in which Greek speaking people lived. The Minoans created a civilization that had great power in the Mediterranean area. Near the same time, people form the plains along the Black Sea and Anatolia migrated and settled into mainland Greece.

The geography of Ancient Greece can most easily be described as being a rugged and mountainous landscape surrounded by water and also consisting of thousands of islands spread across the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, the Aegean and Ionian Sea. The sea was very important to the Ancient Greeks it. It was their main source of trade and resources form other lands.

Greece has a varied climate. The temperature ranged from 48 degrees in the winter all the way to 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. The moderate temperatures allowed for outdoor life for many of the ancient Greeks. They met together outside for public events and other aspects of social life.

The Mycenaean Civilization.

A large wave of Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian steppes migrated and settles into what is now known as mainland Greece at around 2000  B.C. They were known the Mycenaean. Their name came from one of their leading cities, Mycenae.