Blog Post #6 Biased Biography on Alexander The Great

Alexander the Great was a king of Macedon, a state in northern Greece. By the age of thirty, he created one of the largest empires in ancient history. The empire stretched from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. He was undefeated in the battle and I think that is the reason he is called Alexander the Great and I think he did deserve this title. Alexander was born in Pella in 20 or 21 July in 356 B.C and died in 10 or 11 June 323 B.C. when he was 32 years old. He was tutored by the famed philosopher Aristotle. Alexander's reign lasted 13 years. It was from 336-323 B.C. Alexander had many other titles being King of Macedon, Hegemon of the Hellenic, League, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt and Lord of Asia, but the most important one was Alexander the Great.Alexander's father was Philip II, King of Macedonia. Alexander was really great because of when his father Philip died, he had the courage two fill in his crown and build one of the greatest empires.

Bibliography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/alexander_the_great_01.shtml
http://marius-goubert.suite101.com/the-army-of-alexander-the-great-a90146
http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGreat.html

Blog Post #5 A day in the life of...

    Choose the life of a person who could have lived during the Golden Age in Athens.
    Examples: wealthy merchant, seafaring trader, military, government, slave, metic, woman,
    child, etc. Recount one day in that person’s life using many details. You can include
    dialogue and other characters. Must be believable and realistic.

A Day in The Life of A Slave

The population of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries was divided into three groups. The citizens, the metics and the slaves. Slaves were very important to the ancient Greek way of life. Slaves cleaned and cooked, worked in the fields, factories, shops, in the mines and on ships. Most slaves lives were not that different from a poor Greek citizen's life. 

One day a slave called Alfred. He was really poor and had a wife. Alfred life was really difficult. He was a field slave. He worked in the fields from sunrise to sunset and at harvest time he worked 18 hours a day, just for bringing food for him and his wife. Alfredo was lucky this day because this was the day he received clothes. Slaved only received clothes one time a year. He received two linen shirts, two pairs of trousers, one jacket, one pair of socks, one pair of shoes, an overcoat and a wool hat. He thought he was saved for the rest of the year. After that he went to find some food. He got some cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month. Today was not the day for the eight pound meal. Him and her wife only ate cornmeal salt herrings in their house with wooden shacks with dirt floors. Near the night the slaves stored there food somewhere safe so they were sure that they wouldn't lose it after. The day was over. Alfred saved another day in the life of a slave. 

Blog Post #4 The Spartan Way

Visitors to ancient Sparta often heard the story about the boy and the fox cub. It was a story about a Spartan boy who stole a pet fox cub and hid it under its cloak. Most visitor who heard the story thought that the boy's behavior was strange. Sparta's most famous rival was Athens and both city-states shaped the modern world. Athens was the birthplace of democracy, where all full citizens had the right to vote on city matters. Spartans kept few written records and left ruins for historians to study. Almost everything we study and know today is second hand., but we still know that Sparta dominated ancient Greece about 600 B.C. to 371 B.C. leaving and unforgettable mark on history. Almost 10 percent of Spartan men were full citizens and their job was the serves as soldiers in Sparta's army. Sparta's government and strong traditions controlled every aspect of and equal's life. While boys in Athens were given lengthy educations, Spartan boys were taught only the basics of reading and writing. The trainers gave barely enough food to live on, encouraging them to find some other food for themselves. Men became full citizens at age of 30 after that they could vote or hold public office. All Spartans ate their meals at army halls, not with their families.While the main job of Spartan man was to be soldiers, the main job of the Spartan women was to have children and they needed to make them strong for the next army. Spartan women couldn't wear jewelry, perfume or nice clothes.

A quote from the notes I read was in the page 178 of these notes was "All their times was taken up by choral dances, festivals, feasts, hunting expeditions, physical exercise, and conversations." I think that you could learn  from this quote because that after it said free times was made possibly by two groups of conquered peoples. Which were perioeci and helots.

Sean Price. "The Spartan Way." The Ancient World. Print. 

Blog Post #3

Summarize the main ideas of the article in your own words. Use MLA format and include a minimum
    of one quote from the article. 
The Olympics started very early in Ancient Greece because the Olympics were mentioned in numerous writings by Ancient Greek poets. The Olympics were held to honor Zeus, the most superior god, and the god of the heavens. The Olympics were always held at a sacred site called Olympia, and all wars and conflicts were stopped during the games, to show respect for the gods. The Olympic Village had many sporting facilities.  The first man to win an Olympic event was Coroebus. The event he won was the footrace in 776 B.C.E., In 1896, the Olympic games revived. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was the  organizer of  the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
 According to Knight Thedore "Three footraces were especially popular. The dolichos was a race of twenty-four lengths of the stadium field." This quote describes the first Olympic activity they had. Than other running activities were added and others were also included which came to this day, which we have a lot of types. (page 171,Knight Thedore. "The Ancient Olmypics." The Ancient World. Print. )

Knight Thedore. "The Ancient Olmypics." The Ancient World. Print. 

Blog Post #2 Early Greek Values

The Greek Values: Athleticism, Hospitality, Intuition, Ingenuity,Justice, Loyalty, Respect and Teamwork




a) What values were most important to early Greeks and why were they considered important?
 The most important value in the early Greeks was justice and justice was important because when someone did something bad to another the early Greeks kind of wanted to revenge and always got it by teamwork and ingenuity. Both teamwork and ingenuity is important because people got revenge by using teamwork and ingenuity which is making smart plans/ideas.


  b) In what ways are early Greeks values found in modern society?
Early Greeks values are found in modern society today easily. You can see it everywhere. People trying to earn justice anytime when they get something from the opposite. You can see teamwork in groups, projects and team sports. Today ingenuity is seen as people sometimes making plans to trick others or people think really well and be sneaky in some ways to reach and get something.