crucible of civilization review

A placed defined by a confluence of powerful, intellectual, Social, economic.

• Cleisthenes gave more power to other people
• He was inspired by Greek stories 

Ancient Greece-

• Geography of Greece
• Mountainous Peninsula
• Mountains cover 3/4 of Greece
• Approximately 1400 Islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
• Location shaped its culture 
• Skilled sailors
• Poor natural Resources 
• Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small, independent communities 
• Geography (Continued)
• Approximately 20% of Greece was suitable for farming
• Fertile valleys covered 1/4 of peninsula
• Because of geography the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives 
• Lack of recourses most likely led to Greek colonization
• Temperature range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summers 
• Mycenaeans 
• Began around 200 BC
• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600- 1200 BC
• controlled trade in the region
• 1400 BC Mycenaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language
• Culture in Decline  
• Around 1200 BC sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
• The Dorians moved into the war torn region
• far less advanced 
• Economy collapsed 
• Writing disappeared for 400 years
• Homer and Myths
• Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth
• Homer lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages" 
• Recorded stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad  The odyssey
• (Written 750-700 BC)
• Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans 
• Arete
• Virture and excellence
• Epics
• Narrative poems clebrating heroic deeds
• Myths were created to explain creation 
• Zeus: Leader of the gods
• Hera: Zeus' wife
• Athena: Goddess of wisdom
  
  

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• pandemonium 
• Athenian nobleman 
• He saw ordinary people needed freedom
• born around 570 BC
• he had been taught he was an aristocrat 
• they controlled everything
• Athens
• reading/ writing rare skill
• no medicine
• life span 15 years
• didn't have the type of government you would expect
• Spartans brought up from birth to be soldiers
• separated from families
• lives structured around discipline and war
• cloaks dyed red to not show any other's blood
• food sucked
• Oddesy 
• mythical figures
• war like figures- heros
• story of tyrant came to power was preserved
• noble baring rode into Athens
• beside him was tall beautiful woman, she pretended she was a goddess
• demanded he was ruler
• he was excellent politian  
• turned to common Athenians for support 
• reduced taxes
• introduced free loans
• bounded on east by persian empire, south by egypt, west romans
• greeks scattered 
• potters- worst
• greek- millions of dollars 
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Yesterday

Yesterday we started a new project. I put in from wiki

" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia

• "Ionia (Ancient Greek Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatoliain present-day Turk
•  "Never a unified state, it was eponymously named after the Ionian tribe who in theArchaic Period (800-480 BC)"
• "According to Greek tradition, the cities of Ionia were founded by colonists from the other side of the Aegean."
•  "Anatolia before the Greeks was the home of Anatolian language speakers who occupied the peninsula from the Aegean coast to the mountains of the west where resided the various constituent peoples of the later Armenia. The Anatolians created various semi-autonomous states which eventually came under the dominion of a central authority, the Hittite Empire. That precarious state was continually threatened by civilizations speaking other languages on all three sides, the fourth being protected by the Black Sea. Eventually its neighbors combined to overwhelm it, which happened in the Late Bronze Age."    "

Modern egypt

(I learn better typing it and copying)

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Economy

Tourism (Who wouldn't want to see the pyramids?) 

oil, natural gas, manufacturing

agriculture- making the most of their limited arable land )3%)

the old pattern of dealing with the Nile has been changed since 1970 building of the Aswan High Dam

the dam controls the flooding of the Nile and increases the amount of reclaimed land

Demographics

79 million people- biggest population of middle eastern nation third biggest of all African countries

Official language: Arabic

English French and German also taught to some

religion around 90% Muslim, most of the rest are Christian (Coptic) but there are major conflicts

Egypt- politics, government, revolution

1922- end of protectorate with the United Kingdom

1952- Egypt declared a Republic

1954-1970- rulled by gamal nasser

• nationalized the Suez Canal
• forms allegiance with Soviet Union

1970-19 81- ruled by Anwar Sadat

• switches allegiance to the united states
• attacked Israel over Sinai Penisula, but later made peach
• Sadat assassinated 1981

1981-2011- ruled by Hosni Mubarak

• kept alliance w/US (Helped in the Iraq war_
• accused of corruption, political persecution, human rights violations 
• driven from office following mass demostrations last month

What's next for egypt?

Egypt currently ruled by military junta but democratic elections scheduled from September 2011

some want Mubarak arrested and tried for embezzling from the government our friend Sarah and other Egyptians say he may not have stolen $50-70 billion

revolting is the air throughout the middle of east and northern African

libya has been ruled by Muammar gaddifi since 1969

Vinny's rap was good. Egyptian "President" leaving office, people don't think it's fast enough. Egypt heard about the other nation's president thrown out and got encouraged by it and decided to throw out their guy. Switzerland on their side.

Have you ever been threatened to be tortured
if so, what did you do after threatened
and for what?
what's your job?
Are you into politics?

We had a few groups of people do their raps. Watching a movie now about a girl who wants the Egyptian president to leave, but her family doesn't want it.

Egypt presentations

• Sphinx represents lion and Pharaoh 
• built as tombs for the pharaohs and queens
• chambers- grand gallery
• queen's chamber
• underground chamber
• Hieroglyphs- formal writing system used by Egyptians 
• people who wrote them were called scribes
• Ideogram
• phonographs
• pictograph
• over 2,000 different symbols 
• Nile- 
• longest rivers in the world
• main river
• name from the Greek word "Nelios"
• 4184 miles in length
• ability to produce extremely fertile soil
• also used for drinking water