Trevyn's Western Civ

Coronavirus is causing many hardships in our life with schooling. We are all responsible for our work and responsible for our schedules. We are all figuring all this online stuff out and the best way to do it. We all also have to manage our workloads properly or it can get out of hand.SO together we all need to take responsibility in or work and everything we are doing.

Both plagues are killing tons amount of people in a little amount of time. The viruses both cause the lack of religious things because people did not want to water up around a lot of people because they could contract the virus. Everyone was so scared of both viruses because they are so highly contagious that it causes straight fear. The symptoms are very very similar but the COVID-19 attacks more of the lungs.

Phillip the 2- He was a king of many places. Some of those places are: Spain, Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily, he was married to the English Queen and was also a duke and ruled the Netherlands' 17 provinces. Alexander the Great- He ruled Macedonia, and was born in Pella. He ran a military expedition running through Asia and Africa conquering land. He had a famous horse that helped him. He had one fo the greatest ancient empires and it stretched from Greece to India. One of the reasons his expedition was so successful because he used cultural diffusion. Darius the 3rd- He was the last king from the Persian Empire, and his empire was unstable. Then Alexander defeated the Persians and looked to pursue him later. Later Darius was killed by his his cousin.

Bucephalus was Alexander the Greats horse and people say he "conquered the world." He was a good  race and he had the same condition as Alexander where one eye is blue and the other is black. Alex got the horse by making a wager with his dad. Apparently, the horse was crazy and wouldn't let anyone ride him until Alexander came around. Bucephalus would go into battle with Alexander. It is said that he died at the age 30 which is a pretty good life for a horse back then without all the vet stuff we have today .

It has been a long week. It is tough doing your work on your own time but it is also nice. I have had good communication with my teachers and clear instructions for the most part. It has been nice getting to sleep in and has been nice being home but I can't do this for the rest of the year. It feels like it has been a month because it feels sooo long.

Socrates would question traditional culture because he grew up as a thinker. He grew up thinking of the possibilities of what can be. He didn't like democracy because all the people voting were highly uneducated and he thought voting was a skill. He also didn't like that anyone can step up to be the "manager of the boat'" and that the people in charge should be skilled. That is why he questioned the the state of democracy and also when against traditional culture and beliefs.

In the video it showed how Pericles' planed not turn out so well. Instead a plague hit his city and it showed the weakness of Athenian democracy. When the plague came it hit hard and then he was belayed for 6 months until he finally died. All they had was magic and stuff to rely on. When Pericles died there was no leader to step up and that was the main weakness in the democracy because there was not like Vice President/ tyrant.

Pericles a wise man. Pericles held on to popular support for 32 years. He was a well known politician who dominated Athens through the years 461 to 429 BC. He had three goals: the glorify Athens, strengthen the democracy, and hold and strengthen the empire. He created the direct democracy which was a big part of his legacy and a big part of western culture. During his time is when the plays which were comedies and tragedies became popular. 1) Pericles was a politician that ruled Athens. And his goals were to strengthen the empire, strengthen democracy, and glorify Athens 2) Direct democracy ran through the people not representatives. So you would vote by yourself and everyone could come up with laws to be voted on. 3) The Delian League was an alliance between Greek city-states. They all came together to defend from the Persians. It was also led by Athens.

Greeks are the foundation of western civ. Their achievements are what shaped us. Cylseneas was a very famous politician. He wanted the people to govern themselves. People should shape their own destiny. He grew up in a world of great fortune.His grandfather did a good deed for a great king and then he was able to take some gold but he took some more and then that's where his family wealth came from. He was told he was an aristocrat. Helots were forced to work in the field. They declared war on the Helots every year. Spartans looked like they could build an empire. Middle of the 6th century one man seized control as a tyrant. Athenians welcomed him. Needed allies. With all the trading athens was striving. A potter in Athens had no respect. They didn't realize how much people would value these pots on later in the years with the designs. When Hippyas was ruler he became very harsh and didn't rule fair. Olympics brought inn almost 40,000 peaceful people. If you won you got gre...

Gods interacts with human Poseidon- brother of Zeus, king of the sea, king of water, interfered with Odysseus Aphrodite- goddess of love, her lovers were: Ares, and many other greek gods and Demi gods. Zeus- ruler of heaven , earth, father of Athena, god of sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice. Athena- goddess of wisdom, warfare, peace, intelligence, battle strategy, She was born from Zeus' head fully formed and armored. Apollo- god of music, arts, knowledge, healing, father was Zeus, Artemis was twin sister, he is associated with the sun and she is associated with the moon had gods or goddess for everything that was important/significant in their life

Today we got our test handed back. I got a 97 and I thought I did well. I studied a bit so I felt like I should have done that good.