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Today in Western Civ we finished up the powerpoint on the renaissance and Luther reformation - Luther believes that from his 95 theses that 1. People win salvation by faith in gods gift pf forgiveness 2. All church teaching should be clearly based of the words of the Bible. 3. All people w faith are equal. People do not need priests to interpret the Bible for them -Pushback from the church Luthers ideas are becoming popular, church criticizes and calls his ideas heretical, Luther suggest tp over throw the pope Pope Leo X issues a degree treating Luther Luther throws the popes decree into a bonfire - excommunicates Luther Charles V wants Luther to recant Charles orders Luther to be put on trial in Diet of Worms Luther is declared to be an outlaw and heretic- "escapes"  ordered to be arrested on sight crime for everyone who gives Luther food and shelter writings are to be banned and burned the government would allow people to kill Luther Prince Fredrick takes him...

Today in Western civ we went over more notes for the test on the renaissance on Friday the notes we took in class today were: The Church is weakened and vulnerable.  Socially: the Renaissance emphasis on the secular and the individual challenged church authority Politically: Some rulers mean to challenge the Church's political power Economically: Northern merchants resented paying church taxes to Rome the Church now had corrupt leadership. Pope Alexander VI admitted that he fathered several children. Many priests and monks were poorly educated. Some priests drank to excess, money gambled. the selling of indulgences "releases a sinner from performing the penalty a priest imposed for sins'' Johann Tetzel was a monk who sold indulgences to help rebuild st. Peters Cathedral. A monk named Martin Luther objected to this practice. He was born in Germany and he studied the trivium, which was grammar logic and rhetoric. People were dying of the plague. He attended the Univers...

Today in Western Civ we took the Rome test, and I think I did fairly well on it I know that I got like 20 questions right for sure but im not sure on some of them I think I did good though and that the test was fair. But now we aren't doing anything besides wait for people to finish the test.

Today in western civ we finished the powerpoint for the test tomorrow and some of the notes I took today and the past couple days to prepare for the test; Etruscans: -came from north-central part of the peninsula. -metal workers, architects and artists Greeks: -they had many colonies around the mediterranean sea -Romans borrowed ideas from them (alphabet, beliefs and art) Latins: -descendants of Indonesia-europeans -settled on the banks of the tiber river -many streams flowed into the tiber -there was a marshy area called the forum between the hills -united states has so many things in common with Rome. The rule of kings is replaced by a rule of 2 consuls- -consuls are elected officials -term of office: one year -partitions traced their decent from a famous ancestor -dealt with justices Lucius Traquinais: -the seventh and final king of Rome -known as tarquin and proud Lucretia: -famous, wonderful woman who is older than Sextus. beautiful. Sextus wants to have sex with her but she refu...

Today in West Civ we took many many notes to prepare the test on Tuesday. I would write them here but I left my west civ book at school so I will post it Monday with notes -

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 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.

Day 7 i believe that the United states is headed toward a decline sort of like the roman empire. although, most would not agree because they only look at the good things that are happening in out country today instead of all the awful stuff that is going on almost behind the scenes. One of the only ways they can help if they get scholars or someone to do something. We have a lot of similarities and difference between the united states and the roman republic. one of the main things is that both had problems differentiating between public and private responsibilities and public and private resources. because of this, public services declined while the pockets of the public officials are large at their expense of common citizens. other similarity is the foreign wars. America has been preoccupied with wars. this includes dealing with the injuries preparing for the upcoming wars and such.  the romans middle class was crushed by cheap overseas slave labor. the rising income inequa...

Inflation- drastic drop in value of money mercenary- foreign soldiers who ought for money diocletian- strong willed army leader, became new emperor Constantinople- New capital protected by large walls in Rome Attila- powerful chief of the Huns 3) Political, social, economic, and the military are all factors to the fall of Rome 4) Diocletian separated the territory into east and west assigning a co-ruler for the East. When he died it failed. 5) After Julius Ceaser died, the empire was chais becoming week. Also when the divided into two, weak spots opened up.

Day 4 They both basically talk about the same thing. one thing I noted was that it stated on page 155 how the earliest settlers in Rome were the Latins, Greeks and Etruscans. “Well you got the Etruscans and the first Romans were the Latins.” Is what the lyrics state about this topic. Along throughout the rap it continues to mention many of the same things that are mentioned in the textbook. One more example of this is when they say, “two consuls gotta be better than one.” I think that this rap can be very educational and also fun at the same time. it helps you learn without being so serious and just reading words from the textbook.

Day 3 Questions 1.      Civil war: a conflict between two political groups within the same country Julius Caesar: known by his numen and cognomen, military general Augustus: was a roman statesperson and military leader; first emperor of roman empire  Pax Romana: a period of peace and prosperity throughout the roman empire 3.      The catholic religion split into different parts. This caused conflict, constant hammering of Germans and nomads and loosing money because of the raids.  4.      Augustus was a very capable ruler and he set up and efficient government with servents 5.      The government provided the games, races, mock battles and gladiator contests