Letter to future self

 This year has been one for the history book. This school year started with rare events and ended with rare events. This 2020 has been overall a good year so far for me but its not me who is affected by the things happening right now. Covid-19 mainly affects the elderly which now I am everything but elderly. In this year so far we have lost almost 400,000 people who most likely would still be here. There is still more happening this year that has been drowned out by the virus such as North Korea is starting missile tests again, Russia is now almost a dictator ship, NASA found evidence of a parallel universe but it is not confirmed yet. As i am typing this there are peaceful protest and riots around the world from the US to England about the death of George Floyed. In all this year has had more and more things happen each month and it seems to be getting worse by the day. I hope that in the near future everything goes back to normal but it will be you that can tell what really happened this year. I just have a few questions for the future. How fast has technology increased? Is it faster or slower than the 1900s or earlier 2000s or did it get faster? What is the economic state of the world? How did we recover from this year? How long is 2020s chapter in the history text book?What ever the answers are I hope it is better than now.  Have there been any other pandemics since Covid-19. What ever the answer is I hope it gets better. I hope you remember this year for the good that happened  rather than the bad. If i am reading this the future got better than 2020

Day 50- Emperors

After the murder of Julius Caesar this grandnephew and adopted son takes control at 18. Octavian and mark become rivals. Mark partners up with Cleopatra sharing power. Octavian defeats them at the battle of Actium. Octavian becomes unchallenged ruler of Rome and is presented with the honorific Augustus. He was also given the title imperator now emperor. Rome has now become an empire. He ruled for 40 years. He started Pax Romana which lasted 207 years. His accomplishments were expanded into Africa, build road network, collected taxes, established postal service, increased grain supply, built public buildings, set up police, fire fighters started. He died of natural causes. Now after Octavians death power was passed down to emperors. Some were good some bad some awful. Tiberius ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD and was a good general but bad leader. After his son died he went into exile and died at 77. Caligula ruled for four years because he one a power cycle after Tiberius' death. He was an insane tyrant and was assassinated. After the Assassination a group tried to remake the republic but it didn't work. Next is Cladius who ruled from 41-54 AD and was a fair ruler but possibly had cerebral palsy. Died by poisoning from his wife who wanted her sin in power. Nero ruled from 54-68 AD and wanted to rebuild Rome. He over spent of it and arts and raided temples for money. Historians don't like him

Day 49- Caesar

I will be taking my test on June 2nd at 1:25- 2:15. The plebeians were poor and Juvenal said the only thing that would keep them happy and stop revolts would be to "give them bread and circuses". The bread being free bread from the government and the circus being entertainment like the Colosseum or parties. Generals let their soldiers share in what was taken from the area they were taking. Since the soldiers were sharing in the spoils they became loyal to their commanders and generals rather than Rome. The next leader in charge was Caesar who was a military general that conquered large amounts of area and was generally successful. Once he was a leader he helped the regular people happy along with people who were in high power. Caesar seized power and became a dictator. He made reforms to expand senate, increase solider pay, started colonies, granted citizenship. He was assassinated because of how he seized power and was stabbed before entering the senate. He was also stabbed by one of his close friends Brutus. This is the end of the republic

Day 48- 160-165

As Rome was growing it was causing a wider gap in poverty to where the poor were getting poorer. The two brothers tried to help the poor and proposed to limit the size of estates and giving land to the poor. The brothers made enemies with numerous senators who felt threatened by them. The brothers died during a civil war. Caesar too over in a military take over. The three who took over became the three rulers of Rome. He was a great military strategist and a good leader who followed the rules for a consul. Caesar went to take over Gaul and he was ordered to come back. He took his troops to Rome and defeated Pompey army. Caesar took over the government and became an absolute ruler but started different reforms such as increasing number of senator and created jobs for the poor. Fears grew about Caesar and he was killed. An empire followed after him which happened because of another civil war. A general went to live in Egypt which cause another civil war. Octavian came out as the leader of Rome and almost gave some parts of the republic back. Int the next 240 years there was Pax Romania that created peace in. The empire stood strong for a while because of giving jobs to the poor. There were good and bad emperors the bad being Caligula, Nero, Domitian and the good being Nerva, Trojan, Hadrian, Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius. Slaves were important to Rome and helped to build and support the empire. The emperors would become gods in Rome along with the regular gods. In this time the classes were getting further and further apart. Many building were created to take the peoples minds off of the mass control. New practices started up such as Christianity.

Day 47- Hannibal

Punic War Main Fighters-
Rome- Parts of Italy With Some Colonies
Carthage- Northern Africa

Roman Army- The roman army was made up of legions who were a group of 5,000 soldiers made up of cavalry and infantry.

First Punic War(264-241 BC)- Consisted of strategic naval battles for control of importantly located Sicily. Rome wins and gains control of Sicily.

Second Punic War(218-201 BC)- Main player in the war was Hannibal who was a 29 year old general who almost took Rome. He was a great strategist who attacked Rome from the north through Spain. He couldn't make it all of the way to Rome so he laid a siege for 15 years but couldn't complete the the victory of taking Rome. One of the things he is known fro is he took elephants into battle which scared Roman soldiers because they have never seen them before.

Third Punic War(149-146)- In this war Rome goes on the final push and takes Carthage. The people of Carthage are taken as slaves and Carthage was taken into a province of Rome.

Day 46- Two Topics

9-12: It started out with Tarquin seizing power and becoming a tyrant. His grandfather died  and his widow Servius Tullias becomes the king of Rome. One of their daughter decides to kill her husband and her sister to marry Tarquin. Tullia after killing her sister and husband she convinces Tarquin to take the place of king from his father and after becoming king he throws him into the streets where he is assassinated. Tullia then hails Tarquin as the new king. Tarquin has Tullia sent back home and onn the way home she sees the body of her father and drivers her chariot over his body and they refuse to bury the body. His son tries to take advantage of Lucretia and she refuses and Sextus black mails her. Tarquin tried to cover it up but the common people rose up and kicked them out of Rome. The people were getting suspicious of when they would be the next ones killed or exiled. The people wanted to get away from them before he would come for the people. Because of him it stopped Tyrants in Rome for a while











13-22: The Roman system is what the USA is modeled after so it has many similarity such as the branches of government. The branches being executive, legislative and judicial The executive being the president in the united states and in Rome it is the two consoles. the legislative branch is the senate in Rome and USA but they differ in the house of representatives and assemblies. The judicial branch were the supreme court in the US and in Rome they had the praetors. They both also had a sort of bill of rights while was the twelve tables in Rome.

Day 45- Study Guide

Who settled in Rome
Etruscan- More of artists and more focused on crafty type things
Greeks- Gave religious beliefs, alphabet, art and military strategy
Latin- they were first and set up a system for trading ships to could navigate to Rome but not war ships they also built on serve hills

Many streams flowed into the Tiber and was very marshy

Tarquin- final king of Rome, was a true tyrant

After Tarquin they didn't want anymore kings (long story)

The king is replaced with two councils of elected leaders

plebs were 90% of population and were discriminated against with bad laws

Res public- a new republic that incorporated monarchy, democracy and aristocracy

The USA used Rome as a template for government

They had the same three branches that were alike

largest roman army unit is legion

used shields, swords, daggers and Armour tunics

Punic wars were against Carthage

massive amounts of slaves entered Rome

The plebs are getting poorer

Soldiers started fighting for their military leader not Rome

Caesar was a great general who gained the support of the people

Caesar took over as a sort of dictator

increased the spending for the general people

After Caesar died it was generally the end of the republic

Octavian became the unchallenged leader of Rome

given title of imperator

Rome becomes empire not republic

after death power was passed to emperors

Day 44- Rome by Chi Cago

I woke up this morning and thought I was going to be learning about a leader or the system of the republic but no i woke up to a good song. I don't know what my reaction would be if i listened to this in school but i was 100% surprised listening to it online. It is really well put together and when i saw this i was thinking ugh it is probably just a few words replaced in a song but no this was actually the best song i have  heard that a teacher make 

Day 43- The Twelve Tables

The twelve tables were written by plebeians to give them knowledge of laws because the courts have been run mainly by patricians. The laws were written down to protect the plebeians from the patricians abuse of power. Before the twelve tables were written the patricians often changed the laws to benefit them self and put the plebeians down.The twelve tables also let the people have a legal defense against other people mainly patricians.

Day 42- Roman Architecture

This is the temple of Jupiter. The temple which is now only six pillars is the largest temple built in Rome and survived in its second from for hundreds of years . These temples where designed as a place to worship roman gods. Its design resembles buildings from Greece in the ways of columns because of Greek architects leaving the slowing dying Greece to move to Rome. It wold have looked like other temples from this time period but it was destroyed by looters and war over the years.

Day 41- Plebs vs Patricians

The plebs are commoners or free citizens. The patricians were a small group of ruling class people. The plebs are not people who rule like the patricians but they did elect the patricians. The plebeians also are not as wealthy as the patricians with the patricians almost being like millionaires today. in ancient Greece the plebeians would most likely be the metrics while the patricians would most likely be the aristocrats

Day 40- Definitions

• Republic- a government that is run by officials elected by the people 
• Patrician- The ruling class of ancient Rome 
• Plebeian- the middle/regular class of the free roman citizens 
• Tribune-elected officials that made decisions on behalf of the people 
• Consul- one of the two chiefs of the roman republic
• Senate- an advisory and governing body of ancient Rome
• Dictator- someone who rules with full power of government
• Legion- largest military unit of the roman army
• Punic Wars- a series of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome
• Hannibal-Carthaginian general during the 2nd Punic wars who commanded the majority of the Carthaginian army

Day 39- Essay

 Oh my I said I would do Why were the Greeks so good at treating and see travel. For the essay it would consist of their naval superiority and their ability to sale around because of the geographical location. The first paragraph I will talk abou why were the Greeks so good at treating and see travel. For the essay it would consist of their naval superiority and their ability to sail around because of the geographical location.  In the first body paragraph I would talk about why other geographic location set them up to be a more of treating people instead of foremost that stay in one location. The next paragraph would talk about there naval superiority because of treatment you are that hope they’re treating it with him further. It would also include why they call a nice areas. The third Body paragraph which consist of how they are colonization and geography cause them to be a great civilization that is remembered and studied in today’s time

Day 38- Test questions

What is the noble lie?
a Every one not the decedents of philosophers are inferior and unfit to rule
b*There is a mixture of iron,gold,silver and brass that determine roles in life
c No one is fit to be in power except for descendants of previous leaders
d Greeks are the best people and need to be the dominate Europe and Asia

What was Alexander the great's favorite animal he owned
a*horse
b dog
c cat
d bull

Which plays were done the most at Athenian plays (select all that apply)
a* Comedy
b*Tragedy
c Epic
d Romance

Which leader was taught by Aristotle
a Genghis khan
b *Alexander The Great
c Charlemagne
d Constituent

True or False, Where pillars a main feature in Greek architecture

Day 37- Plato Bad Ideas

how does Plato define the forms

The ideal version and concept of things around us they serve as an instruction manual for us.

what are the three groups of Plato's ideal society

rulers, producers, warriors.

what are Plato thoughts on women

they were equally able to rule but he compared them to children along with him thinking that the womb moves around the body.

what was the noble lie Plato proposed

That people are born with a mixture of gold, silver, brass and iron that determine roles in life.

Day 36- Greek Architecture

This building is a very good summary of what Greek construction was. They used Many collums as in the picture for stability and also for design. The design shows that it is stable enough to survive thousands of years.


This is another example of using stone . The stone was used because of how readily available it was and also for its strength. This also shows the columns from before which was a key component of Greek design. The Greek columns are still used in buildings today because of how durable they are with their ability to look good in the process.

Day 35- Greek Theater

1) The plays that were tragedies showed focused on love, hate, war or betrayal and were designed to be on serious topics. The comedies were based on fun topics with jokes and other things.

2)The tragedies of ancient Greece were almost all based on mythological gods while today some movies still have gods in them from history. The main difference of the plays back then is that they were based on the focuses listed above and it is still used in today movies and plays because it they are the most tragic.

3)

The main stage of the theater was in the center with the stands around it. Before they had the steps and seats to sit on they most likely sat in the grass  or on a hill. The seats were arranged in a circular pattern so everyone could see the play. Some of them had orchestra pits for people to play music and sounds during plays.

Day 34- Summery of Online School

Students and teachers are facing challenges unlike any we have seen before. The reason I think this is so unexpected is because I have never had school close for more than a few days with no work. Online work is causing challenges I have never expected. I would normally wake up for online school at either 6 or 12. The reason I wake up at these times is because my dad leaves for work at 6:00 and I cant trust the alarm clock on my phone because my phone sometimes crashes at night and sends it into safe mode which stops alarms. The work that I am given for biology, Spanish and bible I must teach myself because biology is lectures and we don't do live classes for Spanish. My workload for today is bible, Gym, Western Civ, English, Spanish, Math HW and Math Exit. All of these combine to take longer than 6 hours most of the time which is strait work. Plagiarism and cheating is tempting in this scenario with almost no way for teachers to see if we are cheating along with no consequences. I don't even know what consequences there are because we cant have detention or go to the office or have in school suspension. The past few days have been like a movie the governor making an order to stay inside to reduce exposure and about 65,000 more people get infected everyday with even more people in the US having not been tested or have been asymptomatic. This is still going to go on and everyone needs to adapt to the future.

DAy 33- Athens Plague VS Covid-19

The Athenian plague shares some symptoms to Covid-19 such as Fever, sneezing, coughing and possible pneumonia. The deaths for the Athenian plague is 50-100 thousand while currently the death count is 22,184 but is probably in the 30,000s because China has stopped reporting numbers. The origin of the Athenian plague was likely from Africa. The virus Covid-19 is from China most likely because it is where the initial people showing symptoms are. The Covid-19 is a novel corona virus while the plague that hit Athens was most likely typhus, smallpox, measles or a from of the Black death. In 2005 a DNA sequence was taken from the teeth of a person from a Greek burial pit and it came back as Salmonella Enterica an organism that causes typhoid fever. Because of the plague in Athens law broke down which has not happened yet. There was no way to stop the Athenian plague but now we know how viruses work and have computer to help such as the Folding@Home project which uses multiple computers from around the world to act as one super computer to find a cure.

Day 32- Summary

Alexander the great- Leader who captured and held large amounts of land in Asia and some in Europe. From age 13-16 he was taught by Aristotle and was interested by philosophy, medicine and scientific investigation. He succeeded Phillip with no opposition by putting down his rivals. Put him charge of the invasion of Asia. By 333 he conquered Asia minor. Once Asia minor was conquered, he moved to invaded Egypt. Once he was dead the power was given to Phillip the 2nds other son who was a bad leader.

Darius 3- Last king of Achaemenid empire. His empire was unstable and controlled by unreliable leaders and rebellious people. Was chased by Alexander the great after he defeated the Persians attempted to restore his army but was defeated finally defeated by Alexander, he was killed by his bodyguards and bound him and put him in an ox cart.

Phillip 2- He expanded Macedonia and is the father to Alexander the great. He only had one great defeat was when he was too confident and did not have good Intel through reconnaissance. Started the league of Corinth which was designed to  keep the peace. The peace never lasted long. He was wise and built on the achievements of earlier Greeks. He was assassinated by a bitter noble who didn't like him too much.