quinns western civ blog

today in class we finished up our projects. We decided that Lauren was going to make the stadium and shelby was going to edit our power point and ill finish the essay. and we added a video. The Ancient Games started in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD,  1503 years later the olympics returned. A Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who presented the idea in 1894, rebirthed the idea of the olympics Over 1,500 years ago the olympics started, only 50,000 came to watch The ancient games were a religious festival they were set to honor their God Zeus. For the opening ceremony they lit a torch. The first olympics attended in the city of Athens There were 240 participants 13 nations 43 events Ever since this is when the winter and summer olympics have been separately. There are theories that the olympics might have even started in the 9th or 10th century. The Stadium of Ancient Olympia was a holy place for the Ancient Greeks, where a

Today in western civ we talked about the bad storm we had over the weekend.  Mr. schick showed us the damage at his house and told us everything he had to do to clean. For the rest of class we worked on our group projects.  In ancient greece you could only compete in the olympics if you were a: Greek male free citizens not a criminal and whose city states agreed to participate Any social class Orsippos,  a general from Megara Polymnistor, a shepherd Diagoras, a member of a royal family from Rhodes Alexander I, son of Amyndas and King of Macedonia  Democritus, a philosopher I also started to work on the essay.

Today in class we were assigned to take notes from the textbook pages  142-145. Notes: Macedonia is located north of Greece it had a rough terrain and a cold climate.  Macedonians were hardy people that lived in villages.  359 B.C. Philip 11 became king of Macedonia, he organized his troops into phalanxes of 16 men across and 16 men deep, each on with a 18 ft pike, he also used fat moving calvary to crush his disorganized opponents.  Demosthenes, the Athenian orator.  The Macedonians defeated the Greeks at the battle of Chaerona. In  336 B.C. at his daughters wedding, he got stabbed to death by a former guardsmen.  Philip's son immediately proclaimed himself.  Cause of his accomplishments over the next 13 years, he was became to be known as Alexander The Great.  Alexander was only 20 years old when he became king.  Under Aristotle teachings Alexander learned science, geography, and literature.  He kept a copy of the Illad under his pillow.  When the people of Thebes rebelled, he d

Today in Western Civ we finished watching the video by hank green about philosophy.  Once we finished the video we got with our groups and we worked on the group project. my part of the project is about the different events in the  Ancient Greek olympics.  The ancient greece olympics only had eight events including: Running - the stade race, which was a test of speed, the diaulos (two stades - 400m foot race), dolichos (ranging between 7 and 24 stades). Jumping- Athletes used stone or lead weights called halteres to increase the distance of a jump. They held onto the weights until the end of their jump, and then release them backwards. Discus throw- The discus was originally made of stone. It is very similar to today's freestyle discus throw. Wrestling - highly valued as a form of military exercise without weapons. This event ended when one of the contestants admitted defeat. Boxing- there was no weight classifications, scoring system, and no time limit. Boxing was brit