4/29/2014: The Roman Empire

Why did the Senate kill Julius Caesar?
The senate had lost a lot of power and they had the most to lose.

• The Ides (occur every month) of March are when they kill Caesar by telling him that they need to have a meeting.
• Stabbed in the chest 23 times

The First emperor:

• Octavian- came and took over power at age 18
• begins the Pax Romana- a period of peace and prosperity 
• built roads and aqueducts 
• set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, and even a postal service
• dies at age 76 in A.D.14
• PASSES POWER TO..............

Tiberius:
From Jesus to Christianity:

• He is a Jew when he is born
• goes to temple
• is a Roman citizen 
• very little known about him when he was young except that he got in an argument in the temple at 12 and we don't find out more about him until he was 30
• government thought Jesus was trying to over throw power 
• Romans began to plan his execution 
• Romans sent Jesus to his death
• DURING JESUS' LIFE TIME HE WASN'T A BIG DEAL 

4/28/2014

Today in Western Civilization we took more notes on Rome and watched an interesting video about Rome at least I found it interesting. Learning about the fall of Rome seems really cool and also a lot of it is like the United States which is sort of scary. I think I would rather have a government with one person with the most of the power maybe not all though so that way if you wanted to get rid of them you possibly could.

4/25/2014

Today in Western Civilization I was half asleep because I went to a concert Thursday night which was a lot of fun. I believe we had finished up projects so that was good and Grant went and we got to eat a bunch of different foods.

4/23/2014

Today I presented my project for Western Civilization and I believe I did a pretty good job on it. Delaney's project was amazing as was many of the other projects in the class.

4/22/2014

Today in Western Civilization we watched people present their projects and also fail at presenting their projects. I am going to be presenting tomorrow and I don't know how that is going to go but I hope I do well. I didn't taste any of the food people made which i felt sort of bad about but I don't think anyone cared and apparently a lot of it didn't taste that good. I can't wait for the end of the week already and we just got back from break. That is really all I have to say.

4/11/2014

Today in Western Civilization I came late but I still finished my test and it was actually really easy. Today has been going by really fast and I am glad. I can't wait to leave for vacation tomorrow but I still have to pack and do laundry tonight. Class was pretty easy today. A lot of my classes I am not going to be taking very many more tests which could either be a good thing or completely awful. I can't wait to get out of the state for a little bit and go somewhere warm although it is supposed to be nice here this weekend and next week i think.

4/9/2014

Roman Military: (Roman Legion)

• 5000 soldiers 
• infantry- WENT INTO BATTLE FOOT/ cavalry- SOLDIERS WHO GO INTO BATTLE ON HORSE 
• 80- CENTURY- either on the left or the right so that they could split up

First Punic War:

• fought over Sicily 
• the Romans won

Second Punic War:

• Went through the Alps to get to Rome
• Carthage Indians fought to sack Rome
• Romans won

Third Punic War:

• The Romans went over Carthage- didn't want to wait for Carthage to attack again
• Romans sacked Carthage

If the Romans had lost we would probably be speaking a different language.

• Carthage was in North Africa