western civ blog

Why do we do what we do why do we say what we say why do we think what we think why do we feel what we feel. Mythos=storytelling Philos=science philosophia- The love of wisdom Philosophy- The academic study of anything plato had his own school where you could learn about anything completely free of cost. philosophy- a way of thinking about questions what is the world like

Today in western civilization we learned about Ancient Greece's form of government and how they evolved from being a monarchy into a democracy and how when they first started the process the leader was draco and he had full control over his people and he used to give out really harsh punishments for minor charges then after her died solom took his place who changed the rules and started the beginning of the forming of a democracy because he began to give more power to the people by allowing citizens the chance to vote on things

in western civilization we talked about ancient  Greece  from the time of 2000 B.C. to 700 A.D. we learned that Democracy was developed in  Athens  during this time and that alexander the great had spread  Greek  culture and about how  Rome  became an empire and began conquering other empires 2000 B.C.  M inioan   civiliza tion prospers to  creat  1780 B.C. Hammurabi issues code of law 1500 B.C. Mycenaean culture thrives on  Greek   mainland  1472 B.C.  Hatshepsut  woman  pharaoh begins her reign 1200 B.C. trojan war takes place 1027 B.C. Zhou Dynasty begins in china 850 B.C. Assyrians expand their empire 500 B.C. Zapotec of Mexico build monte Alban 334 B.C. Alexander the great begins to build his empire 321 B.C. Chandragupta founds  Mauryan  empire in  India    

Today in western civilization class we learned everyone's name and learned how to set up our blogger. we also went over class procedure and how when we need to put our phones in the bin in the beginning of class and how we will need a composition notebook and how it definitely cant be a spiral because you can throw a composition and basically nothing happens but if you throw a spiral the pages gand things get massed up