Today was our review day for our test tomorrow and we looked over some new notes. There was a leader who let the broke/middle class people have a voice in the government. The agora was the city hall and citizens would go there to argue about political things and share there opinion. They had lots of fake gods who in stories they had interacting with real humans. 2 very know God’s are Zeus the god of thunder and Athena the god of war. Athena was she’s daughter but she wasn’t born by a women. Stories say she came out his head fully grown and dressed in armor and they named Athens after her. The trireme was the worlds fastest ship tower by 170 men on 3 levels, it was agile and fast, and could be used as a battering ram.
day 8
1) Greco - Roman culture- The mixing of elements of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman culture produced a new culture Pompeii- Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Virgil- wrote Aeneid-legend of Aeneus; poet Tacitus- historian-presented facts accurately, wrote about good and bad of imperial Rome aqueduct- bring water into cities and towns 2) I think the law would be the best accomplishment because it set up a lot of governments today by giving people the same set of laws as everyone else and giving the people the say. 3) Greco-Roman culture is t he mixing of elements of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures. 4) The Greeks were known for beautiful but idealized sculpture; Roman sculptors created more realistic works. 5) It forms the basis for Western languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian; more than half of English words have a basis in Latin.
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