Why Rome Fell...?

Read the article given in class, then complete the following activity. Email it to Mrs. Velez zoraida.velez@gmail.com by 10pm tonight and then post it on the blog by 10pm Monday, May 25.

Activity: After reading the article, give three reasons why the author believes Rome fell? Explain each reason with facts from the article.

The Fall of Rome: Huns, Vandals and Aetius

Read the article given in class and answer the following question "Why is the title of the article "The Fall of Rome: Huns, Vandals, and Aetius"? Answer this question in a form of a paragraph, email it to Mrs. Velez zoraida.velez@gmail.com by tonight at 10pm (5.22.09) and then posted on the board by 10pm on Monday, 5.25.09

Spartacus

Read the article given in class, "Spartacus" then answer the following questions. Send the questions in a word document to Mrs. Velez to zoraida.velez@gmail.com by 10pm on 5.19.09. Then you will have until 10pm on 5.20.09 to post your answers on the blog.

1. Where was Spartacus born? Was he born in slavery?

2. How did Spartacus escape slavery? Was he alone?

3. How big was the slave revolt at its height?

4. Where was the final battle of the slave's revolt fought?

5. Who was given the task of defeating Spartacus?

6. According to the article, Historians believe that the true significance of the Spartacus revolt was....

What sort of women was

Discuss the following statements. Tell me if they are true or false and why. You will have until Thrusday, at 10pm, to make comments on two other entries.

1. Most historians agree that it was Cleopatra's great physical beauty that charmed her many suitors.

2. Cleopatra's first husband was also her brother.

3. Cleopatra's husband, Ptolemy XIII, was executed by Caesar shortly after Caesar married Cleopatra.

4. Following Caesar's death, Cleopatra and Antony became lovers.

5. Being the skillful negotiator that she was, Cleopatra made a treaty with Octavian giving her complete power in Egypt.

6. After the Roman senate stripped Antony of his political power, he and Cleopatra combined forces to fight Octavian.

7. How did Cleopatra die and what made it a dramatic death?

Crime and Punishment in Antiquity

Crime among the ancients was much as we know it today. Punishments, though horrid, proved insufficient as deterrents. Read the article and, share with the class what was, in your opinion, the most inefficient form of punishment and why. Also state which form of punishment was, in your opinion, the most cruel.

After posting your entry come back during the weekend and comment on two other comments. You have until Monday at 10pm to comment.

Law in the early Republic: The Twelve Tables of the Law

Read the article given in class. Explain, in your opinion, what was the importance of the Twelve Tables to the citizens of Rome. Make sure you use details from the article. Your entry is due on 4.28.09 by 10 pm.

The Etruscans

Read the article given to you in class. Write 5 facts you believe made the Etruscans important to the Roman history. Email your response by 10pm tonight.

Resources for Final Project Chapter 11

1. Architecture: http://www.digital-images.net/Gallery/Scenic/Rome/rome.html

2. Make your own mosaic: http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/mosaic/index.htm

3. A little of everything: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/romans/mosaics.html

The Significance of the Hellenistic Era

Read the article given in class, then answer the following question. Make sure each answer reveals the paragraph # where it can be found on the article. Email (zoraida.velez@gmail.com) your answers by 10 pm on 4.15.09. You can post your answers on the blog by 9 pm on 4.16.09.

What made the Hellenistic Era important? Mention at least 5 facts from the book.

Essay Webquest - The Hellenistic Era

At this points you should have selected what type of project you will be working on. If you have selected to work on an Essay, this webquest will be used at home as a resource for your project. However, if you have selected the Model option, then you need to complete this webquest in class. You will have two days to work on this mini project in class.

Copy the following instructions on a Word Document and then proceed to find the answers online. Copy links or pictures on the word document, save it and then email it to Mrs. Velez: zoraida.velez@gmail.com

1. Using resources online, find the definition of Hellenistic or Hellenic.

2. Read the following link and then explain whether or not the changed horizons of the Greek world altered the way that people saw their relationship with the divine, or whether what appears perhaps most strikingly new (the use of cults to honour living people) can be linked primarily or solely to behaviours that were already current withing the pre-existing polis structure. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/read.html

3.Use the information found on this link to explain the Family structure during the Hellenistic Era. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/readings/family_structures.pdf

4. Finally, read the following essay and explain how architecture was used as a medium of public relations among Alexander's successors. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/readings/architecture.pdf

Model Webquest - The Hellenistic Era

At this points you should have selected what type of project you will be working on. If you have selected to work on a Model, this webquest will be used at home as a resource for your project. However, if you have selected the Essay option, then you need to complete this webquest in class. You will have two days to work on this mini project in class.

Copy the following instructions on a Word Document and then proceed to find the answers online. Copy links or pictures on the word document, save it and then email it to Mrs. Velez: zoraida.velez@gmail.com

1. Find a sculpture of the 3 generals who took over Alexander's empire after his death. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/rulers1.html

2. Find pictures of the different column styles. Explain what are the differences. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/architecture1.html

3. Find a picture of the Temple of Apollo and describe the main characteristic of this temple. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/architecture1.html

4. What can you say about the city of Alexandria by looking at the layout of the city? http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/alexandria.html

5. Find at least 4 pictures from the city of Pergamon: Acropolis, Temples, Gymnasium, Palace and, or Sculptures. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/pergamon.html

6. Take a look at all these sculptures; which ones would you consider to used as a decorative piece in a garden or a park during the Hellenistic Era?http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/freestanding.html

7. Find the map that shows the Hellenistic Kingdoms. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/maps.html

8. Find the definition of the following Architecture terms and then find a picture to describe it. Keep in mind that some of these terms are a description of some items you have seen already in this webquest.

arch
barrel vault
basileia
Corinthian order
cornice
entablature
frieze, triglyph, metope
heroon (pl. heroa)
hypaethral
Ionic order
naos,. naiskos
orthogonal (Hippodamian) grid plan
pediment
peripteros, dipteros
peristyle court
propylon
prostyle, amphiprostyle
"Rhodian" house
tholos

9. If you would choose this option, how would you design your city? Describe your city with the pictures give and a short description for each.

Alexander the Great - The Early Years

Read the article: The Early Years of Alexander the Great. Answer the following questions:
1. Waht was the original name of Olympias?

2. What was the name of Olympias' brother who succeeded to the throne of Epirus?

3. Analyze the reading and explain what characteristics (of his character) Alexander enherited from Olympias and from King Philip?

The other side of Aristotle

In your opinion, what theories made Aristotle so valuable that King Philip II summoned him to serve as tutor to his son? Write your answer in a two-paragraph format (minimum)

The Socratic Method

In you own words, summarize the Socratic Method. Answers should be on Mrs. Velez's email zoraida.velez@gmail.com by 10pm on 3.11.09. Then after 10pm you may post your answers on the blog by 6pm on 3.12.09

OATH AND LAW OF HIPPOCRATES

Read the following article and answer the question as a comment on the blog. No need to email it. After you are done, make comments on three entries.

From "Harvard Classics Volume 38"Copyright 1910 by P.F. Collier and Son.
This text is placed in the Public Domain, June 1993.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

HIPPOCRATES, the celebrated Greek physician, was a contemporary of the historian Herodotus. He was born in the island of Cos between470 and 460 B.C., and belonged to the family that claimed descent from the mythical AEsculapius, son of Apollo. There was already along medical tradition in Greece before his day, and this he is supposed to have inherited chiefly through his predecessor Herodicus; and he enlarged his education by extensive travel. He is said, though the evidence is unsatisfactory, to have taken part in the efforts to check the great plague which devastated Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. He died at Larissa between 380and 360 B.C.

The works attributed to Hippocrates are the earliest extant Greek medical writings, but very many of them are certainly not his. Some five or six, however, are generally granted to be genuine, and among these is the famous "Oath." This interesting document shows that in his time physicians were already organized into a corporation or guild, with regulations for the training of disciples, and with an esprit de corps and a professional ideal which, with slight exceptions, can hardly yet be regarded as out of date. One saying occurring in the words of Hippocrates has achieved universal currency, though few who quote it to-day are aware that it originally referred to the art of the physician. It is the first of his "Aphorisms": "Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

THE LAW OF HIPPOCRATES

1. Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment connected with the practice of medicine (and with it alone) except disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons are the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape, and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instruction; a favorable position for the study; early tuition; love of labour; leisure. First of all, a natural talent is required; for, when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labour and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of the earth. For our natural disposition, is, as it were, the soil; the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in youth is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper season; the place where the instruction is communicated is like the food imparted to vegetables by the atmosphere; diligent study is like the cultivation of the fields; and it is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and having acquired a true knowledge of it, we shall thus, in traveling through the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund to those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and audacity. For timidity betrays a want of powers, and audacity a lack of skill. They are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

5. Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to impart them to the profane until they have been initiated into the mysteries of the science.


The Hippocratic oath has served as an ethical guide for many generations of physicians. According to what you just read, how would you describe a good physician?

Ancient Greek Civilization

Copy the following questions into a Word document. Answer the questions, saved them and then copy them onto an email. Send your email to Mrs. Velez's email address: zoraida.velez@gmail.com by 10 pm tonight. Then post the answers on this blog by 6pm tomorrow.

1. How would you describe the Dorians?

2. What was the Dorian's way of rulership? Was it effective?

3. What evidence can be found of Dorian influence in Classical Greece?

The Expansion of Christianity

1. Summarize the origins of christianity


2. Who was Paul? How did he influence the expansion of Christianity?


3. Who was Peter? How did he influence the expansion of Christianity?


4. What language was spoken by the earliest Christians?


5. List two differences between the "Christians" and the "Pagans"


6. Why were people attracted to Christianity?


7. Summarize the Imperial Opposition to Christianity


8. Explain how were Christians persecuted

9. How did the church become organized?