Finishing touches

We had to out the finishing touches on our papers. We also had a video about Ancient Greece and there culture.

DA paper

We had put the finishing touches on our paper. We are expecting to have 1500-1700 words on our paper. We have to explain the Iliad and the Odyssey and a summary of the two stories. We also had to explain his life and any other information needed by the reader about Homer. 

Paper

We had worked on the paper that we need to turn April 1st. It has to be 1000 words and uses all the information from our power points. It has to be made by every body in our group and has to give good information about the topic such as Homer and others such as the Trojan war.

Greek Gods

Today we had talked about the Greek gods and goddesses. How Zeus was the king of them all. The three main gods are Zeus, Posiden, and Hades. Zeus is the king of the Gods and the God of Thunder. Posiden, Zeus's brother and God of the sea. Then Hades the God of wealth and the ruler of the under world and also Zeus's brother.  

Presentation 2

Today we had talked about the hoplites and triremes. The hoplites were solders that had little training they had heavy armor and had long spears and short swords. They also controlled the sea with triremes. Large ships with a peace of metal on the front of it. They were controlled by 180 rowers.

Presentations

We had done the presentations on Athens vs Sparta in the Peloponnese war. We also did Homer the story teller. With Athens and Sparta they hated each other and but had more in common then one of then and the Persians. Athens treated there women with no respect and were put down. The armor they had was poor and the rich had the best and the poor were lucky to have a helmet and a side weapon. The Spartans were a very militaristic people. They were forced to train for the military at the age of 7 and actually start combat training at the age of 20 and don't get out of the army until the age of 60. Homer was thought to be a group of people that had told the stories and other believed that he was a single person that had composed the stories and told them by thought and had written them down over time. 

Isagoras and Cleisthenes

There were two people that were aristocrats that tried to take control of Athens. Isagoras and Cleisthenes. Isagoras had the vote of the other aristocrats and upper class. Cleisthenes had the vote of other upper class and lower class. When Isagoras had won to be leader he had banished Cleisthenes. His followers didn't like that so after a few years they had banished Isagoras and then a democracy was born in 508 B.C.