Blogpost Caesar and Augustus

I think that Augusts was a greater leader, and contributed more than Caesar to the Roman Empire. Augustus brought a lot of good reforms, that the Roman people contributed from. Augustus brought a great Era of peace to the Roman empire known as the Pax Romana. During Augustus reign, arts and philosphy flourished in Roman. Roman soon became the most advanced city in a big area, trade evolved and soon Rome was the trading capital. Augustus provided more jobs, and made a proffesional military which was paid, and you served you whole life in, this meant that Rome had one more job to offer.

When Augustus started his military campaign he conquered more lands than Caesar did. Through Augustus's military campaigns he conquered the whole of Spain and Gual, and big parts of modern day Austria, Hungary , Bulgaria and Romania. Augustus reformed parts of he Roman army, he added the Praetorian guard, which guarded the emperor, this army consisted of 9,000 men.

Caesar started big reforms in Rome and was a great leader that was the spark of a new Era , but Augustus was the one to take all Caesar has created and go further, he was the one that made Rome, so succesful. When we think of ancient Rome we think of what Augustus created.

Juilus Caesar

If I was a pleabian Cirizen in ancient Rome I would very much appreactiate and like Julius Gauis Caesar for all his acomplishments and acheivements. I would support Julius Caesar and his attempts to reform Rome and make it stronger and better. He gave the poorer people a bigger chance, He gave them a chance in the world and gave them land they could own and make a profit from. He stopped the amount of poverty and landless people and gave a lot of people a chance. On the other hand, he was growing very powerful, and he grew into a bigger and bigger threat amongst the Rich and powerful Roman citizens, mainly the Senate.

Juilus Ceaser

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The geography and climate of Italy greatly influenced it's development and played a great factor in forming ancient Rome. The geography of Italy is very accessible and unlike Greece there were little mountains, so the people were not isolated from one another, which meant they could share ideas and contribute to the development. The people could come together to form a city, just like the Romans did.
The geography and climate allowed the people to have a surplus of food which they could trade but also keep for when there was a shortage. The climate wasn't too hot or too cold which meant the people could farm and grow food for longer periods during an year, it also meant they had mild winters which they didn't have to prepare for a long period of time. Most parts of Italy were accessible to water, which meant the Romans could earn money by trading with other empires at the time, such as the Egyptian empire. Because this great accessibility to water the Romans could travel quickly.
The Roman climate and geography was perfect for building a great and very successful empire. Their empire became so successful partially due to there good climate and geography, which helped them stay successful for so long.

The Beginning of Rome

There are two legends to the beginning of the mighty Roman empire. The first legend is the traditional legend were Romulus and Remus, were left near the tiber river, a wolf raised them. They decided to form a city, one day Remus made fun of Romulus's wall, Romulus killed his brother. The village was then named after him and he became the first king. The second legend is that the Trojan Hero Aneaos survived with a couple followers after sailing for some time, he landed at the riber river and mixed with the latins to form Rome.

Historians believe that latins lived in the area 1000 years B.C.. They built huts on Roman hills, tended herds and grew crops. Sometime in 700 BC they banded together for protection and formed a community known as Rome.

Alexander the Great

Does Alexander the Great really deserve his title? I say yes. He deserves this title, because he conquered half of Asia and most of Europe. But Alexander wasn't a ruthless leader, he included the Greek culture in his rule, and he tried to tie the Greek culture and the culture's of the cities he conquered together. Alexander is believed not to have lost a single battle he fought, and that just proves his physical and mental superiority in that time, which should give him the title of great. According to historians " Alexander was very smart, he was even tutored by the great philosopher Aristotle, While conquering the world, Alexander came across the great Gordian knot, which was untied for centuries, he just cut it." I think this quote shows us Alexander mental readiness, and how his always thinking, that was the reason for his great success on the battlefield,

Alexander deserves this title, because he was truly unbeaten in battle but he also, in a way helped the cultures he conquered. Instead of killing or capturing enemy soldiers he hired them for his army, he also invested in the cities he conquered and improved the living standard. All of this Alexander the Great completed and that's why his title is deserved and will stay with him forever.

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Spartans and Athenians, are two different people, they had there conflict, but they also combined there forces in times to fight the common enemy, Persia. These two civilization's have similarity they are the two largest cultures in ancient Greece. The Spartans are Dorions, while the Athenians are ancient Greeks.

The Spartans are people that are focusing all there time and effort to form a strong army. This is because most of the people they are surrounded by are enemy's. 250000 inhabitants are slaves while 10,000 are actual citizens, this is why the Spartans rely on a strong army. Spartan education for boys, begins at the age of seven, where they are sent off to barracks with there peers to learn how to read write and most importantly fight and become a soldier. While spartan girls have only a physical education so they stay healthy.

Athenians are different they have a strong economy, and farming. There culture does have military aspects, but they also support art,music, math and philosophy. There citizens have a variety of jobs not only soldiers. In Athens only rich boys can be educated. They learn about reading, writing, solving math problems, writing poetry, drama but also athletics.

AS you can see these people and cultures are very different.

Olympics

Olympics are a great sports manifestation, which was first held in ancient Greece. From writings of famous poets it dates back to the earliest forms of poetry. The Olympics were a gathering of Greek athletes, people and monarchs. There was a truce between all the city-states and the people watched many sports events during this festival. The first events were, footraces, chariot races, wretsling, and panctrium (A type of fight among people, which could end in serious injuries).

During the first 127 games women, were not allowed to participate or watch the games. But a newly elected emperor changed the rule. As time progressed more and more games were added. The Olympic games became a place of celebration banquets and a 5 day holiday. During the Olympic games leaders of city-states made deals, and formed truces and made trade between there states.

The decline of the Olympic games occurred when the Romans conquered the Greeks. They took out the sports and replaced them with fighting to the death. The Romans turned the Olympic games into a aggressive sport.

Greek Values

The Greeks had 7 to 8 important values, but the three most important, were respect, loyalty and teamwork. These three are most seen in Greek epic poems. To the Greeks these were important, because they guided them through life and should them the most important values they should always follow and keep in there mind.

Most of the old Greeks values, are found in the modern world. Respect would fit into caring and openmindess, while loyalty would fit into caring and principled. In this modern world teamwork would fit into communication. As you can see all these values fit in these modern values and connect. The modern Greeks invented a lot of the values we use today, at least the basis

Minoans and Mycenaeans

During early ancient Greece there were to main civilizations, the Minoans that came from the Greek island of Crete, and the Mycenaeans who were located on mainland Greece. The Minoans where an older civilization, and were friendly, diplomatic and peace loving. They were great traders and advanced architects, who even built flushing toilets. There culture consisted of many peaceful activities and celebrations. They worshiped the Earth goddess who was, peace and nature loving.

On the other hand you had the Mycenaeans who were military organized. They were bloodthirsty and liked warfare. There Idea was train there military and conquer new lands. They were also advanced architects, and built all there weapons out of gold. They had a little feasts and celebrations. The Mycenaeans Had a Earth mother who protected the warriors. The Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans without any resistance.

Both Civilizations left something for later Greek civilizations. They left there advanced architecture and building ways. The Minoans probably left some of there activities and celebrations. While the Mycenaeans left there weapon building ideas and plans. They probably left there good shipbuilding techniques and plans, and there trading routes. And most importantly some parts of Religion.

End of year reflection

WOW! The time machine actually worked, in front of me i could see the huge and vast plains of Africa, animals roamed free like they used to years ago, their were people, but they looked nothing like us much hairier and simpler, they held tools that resembled weapons, these humans were chasing after an animal, minutes and minutes passed they seemed so persistent, and then the animal finally fell before there feet in exhaustion, but this wasn't enough they chased after other animals close by.

I disappeared! and reappeared but the scene was different I was in a town Catal Huyuk, a town of sun dried brick, but unlike normal towns I was standing on a roof instead of a street. The town bustled with activity, people were all around walking carrying stuff. People entered and exited building through rooftops, I could smell grain, I watched and watched this interesting town, and as I started to get the hang of it I disappeared again.

This time unlike the times the times before I was on a boat in the nile , on either side I saw a sandy bank and desert continued onward, here and there villages appeared people were fishing and tending there everyday lives, houses were wooden, and all people were farming. Soon I disappeared again to repaper.

I was again In a town, as I looked towards the horizon I saw huge mountains, people here were in different outfits, some looked wealth and some poor, now and then a person wearing orange appeared, on the sides of streets some people were peacefully meditating. I even saw a untouchable doing dirty work. And then I disappeared this time I was home this was a amazing adventure

Right View

The first step to achieving the eight fold path is having the right view, the right view means to see and understand things in a way they really are, and realize the 4 noble truths. The right view means seeing through things and intercepting and understanding them it means. Right view is not intelligence it is something you attain, and then have to sustain. The right view begging with the insight that all creatures suffer and ends with the complete understanding of nature and the surroundings and environment around you.

Vishnu

Vishnu is the supreme god in the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism. Vishnu is described having divine color of water filled clouds. He is one of the three main gods, known as the preserver, while the other two are the creator and destroyer. The belief that Vishnu is the preserver in Hinduism cam quite after the creation of the religion. When the nine powers on Earth are upset and not equal it is fought Vishnu comes to equalize them and make them fair. Vishnu is portrayed as blue or black shinned and has four arms. He has a thousand names and their repetition is an act of devotion.

Map reflection

Our three maps are very similar. The maps show different aspects of India and when you sum it up you learn a lot about the climate, elevation and physical features. They relate to each other in the way that it all makes since the climate for example depends on the elevation and and physical features.The area is a desert there surely wouldn't be rain forest climates. Or in the Himalaya's there wouldn't we ocean climate.

I through this I can draw a lot of conclusions about India. An example is where people settled, through observing the map I see, most of the main cities are located on flat land which is at a pretty low altitude usually not exceeding 400 meters. Through the map I can also draw a conclusion that weather in India varies in each part of this massive country but that they have two main seasons, the normal one were, during the days it's pretty hot and the monsoon one were it keeps on raining.

As you can see you can observe and learn a lot about a country by only studying it's map.

Lost City of Mohenjo Daro

Archeologists didn't know the Indus civilization existed until 1921 when in the are of modern day Pakistan scientists found the ancient and mysterious city of Mohenjo Daro. The city was organised, which meant that the people were great Urban planners, and easily controlled water.

One interesting fact about the city is that it has nor palaces nor temples, which meant they didn't have a king or queen who ruled the whole time. Experts believe, Mohenjo Daro was a city-state that was governed bye elected leaders, such as modern day president's.

Unlike most religions and beliefs their one was based on something else. The closest found to a temple in the town of Mohenjo Daro was a building that somewhat represented a temple. It is believed that this ancient civilization believed in cleanness every house had a well and a bathroom.

Ancient Egypt Reflection

While studying ancient Egypt we learned a lot. We learned how there daily lives looked like, and how a lot of the technology and customs were based on the ones Egyptians made. While learning about Egyptians we did not just learn facts, we used a lot of the MYP learner profile traits. The trait I think was the most important and we all used the most was thinking, we were thinkers. We connected Egyptians to the modern world, and realized how much we actually got from them. We also thought about how were similar yet different them Egyptians. The second was communicating, we used this skill mostly while presenting are projects we communicated with our classmates and thats how they learned the topic. Thirdly I used Inquiry, I asked myself questions on the lives, and different periods in Egyptian history, and at the end of the unit I had answers to most of them. And Lastly I used Reflection, At the end of the unit I reflected on The whole theme. What I learned during this unit and how I could use it.

How do natural features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains hep unite people or keep them isolated?

Natural features can keep people united but also isolated. Rivers oftentimes unite people, because they can trade and travel down the river to establish communication with other town or villages along the river. But a river can also isolate people, if they don't have boats or transportation to get over the river. Lakes can also act like rivers you can get to the other towns and villages and communicate and unite. But people can also unite walking around the lake which is also and option. Mountains mostly isolate people especially if there tall. It takes time to climb onto a mountain or over it, mountains can also be very dangerous and treacherous.

Traveling Down the Nile river

I am traveling down the Nile river in a Greek trading Vessel. To the right and left side of me I can see small wooden homemade Egyptian fishing ships pushing there way through the strong currents of the Ferocious Nile river. Suddenly on the right side a small town appears the streets are bustling, and ships take turns entering and leaving the harbor. I can smell the pleasant aroma of fresh fish being unloaded off the small Egyptian vessels. I hear fisherman at the fish market debating the prices for the fish they proudly caught with the unsatisfied merchants, Who think the fishermen went mad. I can feel the afternoon breeze pushing at my back as we sail further on. Inside I feel intrigued by this ancient civilization, but at the other hand satisfied that I visited great river.

Answers to Questions

1. There is a relationship between mummification and natural environment. Mummification can happen through the environment, if a person dies near a bog or airless area there body will stay untouched or just partially decayed not fully.

2. Some of the reasons people have been mummified is ancient people believed that mummies have a much better chance in there afterlife, they believed mummified people will live a rich and prosperous life, and be powerful in there afterlife.

Defining Words

The words I didn't know were

Cadavers: A corpse or lich, is a dead human body

Societal Outcasts: A person who is rejected, and sometimes isolated

Bogs: is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat

Transgressions: a crime usually created by social or economic boundary

Cryonics: A low temperature Preservation of humans and animals

Mummy: An ancient cadaver whose soft tissues has partially or wholly resisted decay

1. Mummies have been part on parts of the Andes, China, Europe and Egypt.

2. Mummies were usually found in wet and damp places such as bogs, you can also find mummies on really high altitudes such as the Andes, Some mummies are found indoors such as the Pyramids in Egypt.

3. Ancient Egyptians preserved the dead by wrapping the in linen and then putting them in a sarcophagus.

4. Ancient Egyptians took a lot of care to embalm the dead because they believed that the way there buried that's how there afterlife I going to look like, If they were buried with lots of treasures, they will be rich and powerful in there afterlife.

5. Wet areas such as bogs attentionality mummify people, also places without a lot of oxygen.

6. Some mummies were intentionally mummified in order to life an afterlife, others were executed and then mummified.

Questions

1. Does mummification have to do with religion ?
2. Do certain areas of the same religion mummify people while others don't?
3. Do all culture's that believe in afterlife mummify?
4. If a culture mummify's do they mummify every single person?
5. Does your mummification depend on your place in the community?

Phoenicians Project

This is are ancient empires poster about Phoenicia.

Unit Reflection

Through the domestication of plants and animals we got new things, and we always had food. Animals such as dogs could help us hunt other animals for food. We didn't constantly have to move and settle in different places. The transition from hunter-gatherers to early civilizations was very important. We started producing surplus and we started to live in bigger settlements that didn't migrate. Governments formed and there were social classes and a division of labor. Early beliefs and religion were also very important. They gave people a chance to believe in something. If someone told me that learning about Sumerians wasn't important, they were one of the first civilizations, lot's of the things we have today we owe to Sumerians who invented them. We couldn't do lot's of the thing's we do today without the Sumerians they were the first civilization with kingship and that's how government started.

Endeduana of Sumer

Enheduana was the first known author in mans history, she was also the first bestseller. Enheduana lived 4300 years BC and was the daughter of King Sargon, considered the best king of the Akkadian empire. Her father used to be a cupbearer for the king for the king of Kish and managed to get the throne and expand the empire. When Enheduana became a teenager, her father thought she was responsible and appointed her the high priestess to Nanna, the important moon-god of Sumer. Enheduana had to move to the city of Ur to live and work on top of the 7 story ziggurat which was situated in the middle. As the high priestess Enheduana had to preform rituals and prayers throughout the year, she also had to offer sacrifices. Enheduana wrote a great cycle of poetry, which was sung and preformed. A nephew of Enheduana came in power and sent her into exile.

1. At the time Enheduana lived books weren't paperback they were clay tablets which were much more durable.
2. Enheduana lived in the city of Akkad, her father used to be a humble cupbearer for the king of Kish and he somehow became the king then he expanded the empire and included new states.
3. Enheduana was the High priestess of Nanna the important moon-god of sumer, when her nephew became king after the death of her father she replaced her with his daughter and sent her into exile.
4. Archeologists found over 50 copies of her work, back then only some people could read, it was also very hard to copy onto clay tablets.
5. Enheduana she wrote about her father and how at one point city-states he united had a revolt against him but he finally broke the siege and there was peace again

From earliest times, people have changed their environments. How have people today changed their environment. Discuss both the good and the bad

We've changed are environment in many ways. We domesticated animals, which helped us, but also provided shelter for lots of animals such as dogs. We used animals for different resources such as milk for that we domesticated cows. We clear the rainforests and forests to obtain wood and fields for farming and fields for grazing. We sometimes build mountains or islands to be able to house more people. Sometimes we blow up mountains to look for gold or diamonds. People did lot's of things to affect are environment during are history and we still do today. All of the things we do we gain, but sometimes it badly affects are environment.

Why is Catal Huyuk An Important Archaelogical Find?

Catal Huyuk was one of the biggest settlements in the world at that time. And by studying it archeologists could find out a lot about the life of earlier humans in one of the first big settlements in the world what there living standards were like and how an average person lived. Through this one city historians and archeologists already found out that the people of Catal Huyuk mostly farmed, they also know the people traded there surplus and made hunting weapons and tools out of obsidian. Catal Huyuk was different than we would think of it there were no roads but everybody walked on each others roof you entered the house through the hole on the roof, to historians and archeologists revealed a lot about the peoples culture and thinking. Catal Huyuk is also very important because through out this we can see how most of the people in this region lived and worked and what the design was of most nearby settlements.