Philosophy and Art

• Epicureanism and Stoicism: founded the school of philosophy. Founded the school of thought

Sculpture

• Colossus of Rhodes- a bronze statue more than 100 ft high, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. 150 B.C the hellenistic world was in decline.
• Rome was growing and gaining strength
• Epicurus 
• Epicurus taught the God's do not care for humans, they just set up the world
• Also taught that the only real objects were ones that the 5 senses could perceive 
• discuss the differences between different types of government aristocracy monarchy democracy 
• describe the philosophies of Socrates, Artistotle, and Plato 
• describe the progression of greek civilization from Minoan to dorian 

Hellenistic Culture

HELLENISTIC CULTURE 

• Hellenistic Culture in Alexandria
• Hellenistic Culture: Greek culture blended with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian cultures
• The world today would be completely different if Alexander lived past 32
• Trade + Culturally diverse:
• Alexandrias Attractions 
• Alexanders Coffin
• Alexanders library and museums 
• Pharos lighthouse
• Library has 500,00 papyrus scrolls
• Science and Technology 

• Astronomy 
• Aristarchus found out that the sun is at least 300x bigger than the earth; said that planets revolved around the sun
• Ptolemy disagreed with Aristarchus, says earth is the center of the universe, this is taught for the next 14 centuries 
• Eratosthenes - estimated the real size of the earth, says its round. He estimated it to be 28,000-29,000 miles in circumference and he was really close for his time. The actual measurement is 24,860 miles.
• Mathematics and Physics
• Euclid wrote the book of Geometry that contained 465 presented geometry propositions and proofs (elements)
• Archimedes - Accurately estimated the value of Pi, explained the law of the lever.
• The Archimedes screw could pull water out of the ground.

Chapter Outlines

Alexander's Empire:
1.  Philip builds Macedonia Empire

• Philip is Alexanders dad and king of Macedonia
• King of Macedonia who invaded Greece and WON!
• He was going to conquer Persia, but he was murdered.

2. Alexander names himself king at 20 years old. 

• ALEXANDER DEFEATS PERSIA!!! (Darius III)
• When young; tutored by Aristotle
• Relied on the Iliad 
• Alexander va. Darius: Alexander is outnumbered by Darius's army, but wins anyway
• Crowned pharaoh in 332 BCE, He told them he was a God.
• Alexanders Army moves East to Mesopotamia. Darius's army outnumbered him again with a HUGE army. Battle at Gaugamela. Alexander used phalanx and won. Again. 
• Second time that Darius fled, which led to him being killed by his own army. 
• Alexander continues East to Perserpolis, and burned and destroyed it. 

3. Alexanders other Conquests

• Now reigned as unchallenged ruler of southwest Asia.
• 326 BCE Hydaspes River, defeats India.  
• Been fighting for 11 years and marched 11,000 miles. So army turned around.
• 323 BCE, Alexander and his army reach Babylon and says he isn't going all the way home.
• Alexander died at 32 years old, never carried out full plans. Cause of death is unknown: Fever, Syphillis, or Murder?

Pottery and Weather

Kelsies group went today and shared their presentation on pottery. Their pottery turned out really good and they were very knowledgeable on the subject. Then we talked about the weather and policies. I think were either gonna have off tomorrow and Wednesday or we will go to school tomorrow and then end up leaving early. Mr. Schick was telling us how some roads can get super icy and dangerous so I really hope they end up calling it because I'm super exhausted from track and the weekend. Some extra sleep would really be nice.

first day of presentations

Today was the first day of presentations. Chase, Ellie, Faith, and Maddy went first with their food. The honey cake was actually really good and had a really good texture. The bread was also really good especially with the oils. I thought they did a really good job keeping the class entertained and they seemed pretty knowledgeable about the subject. The next group was Ben and Owen who made a trireme. The model was really cool and Ben knew a lot about the subject and had memorized a lot of facts. After that, the pottery group was supposed to go but Kelsie isn't here and they hadn't finished painting either. Then Frankie, Vlad, Aiden, and someone else i can't remember went and they did pretty good.; I thought the trident was really cool

discus throw

Discus - The Discus throw was an event in the ancient olympic games, and was one of the five events of the pentathlon. The discus was usually made of either stone, bronze, lead, or iron. From artifacts that have been excavated from the past weighed from 1,3 km to 6,6 km. They also ranged from having a diameter of 17 to 35 cm. The reason they had a variety of sizes were because boys and adults had different sizes of discusses, the boys having smaller ones. The official discusses of the olympic games were kept in the treasury of the Sikyonians. As for actually throwing the discus, methods varied. A thrower who was right handed might bring his left foot forward by shifting his weight to his right. He then may swing the discus back and forth and on his last swing, move his weight to his left foot, and throw the discus. The ancient greek athletes would not spin around like modern athletes do today, therefore they probably did not throw as far.

LOGIC

Today I brought in food for class I brought in mini bagels, big bagels, green grapes, sugar cookies, and mini chocolate chip cookies. Then we had the color debate. 

 

~Logic~

• Logic is the philosophers toolbox
• About reasoning 
• Giving strong arguments that don't fall victim to fallacies 
• A failure in reasoning or flawed reasoning that lends to an invalid or unsound judgement. 
• STEP 1- Try to understand
• STEP 2 - Critical Evaluation

Colors : What if we all saw different colors but they were called the same thing/