Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Chapter 15

Section 1: Renaissance- means rebirth. The renaissance was a good time in the middle ages. Started in Florence, Italy. The Medici brought the Renaissance to life. Lorenzo the magnificent was a very important person in the beginning. The humaniss were people who stayed with the classics. The artist- They relied on perspective- which is life like things. Michelangelo, was a great painter/sculptor who created the Sistine chapel. Leonardo Di Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Francesco Petrarch wrote love poems to Laura. Machiavelli - Mcnaboes man. He was from Florence and wrote about the Prince.

     Michivelli- Is it better feared than loved, or loved than feared?
1. As a person: I would rather be loved as a person. Being feared would mean not having any allies on my side. It would also mean that people would want to stay away from you because they are afraid of you.
2. As a leader: I would rather be feared because then you will be respected. People would not try to suggest things they know I disagree with. If I was a leader and feared then the people would obey laws more often.

Section 2: Johannes Gutenberg- Created mechanism that could copy movable books. Desiderious Erasmus- Wrote the "Praise of Folly." Thomas More- He thought that every man should be treated fairly. He would not support King Henry 8th, so he was beheaded. William Shakespeare- Wrote Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. The Flemish- First to paint in oil on canvas.

   

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Sections 3, 4, and 5

     Section 3: In each town, there was a merchant's guild that had the right to trade there. There were also craft guilds, where skilled workers came together. In guilds, there were apprentices, young boys that served the workers. Next there were journeymen, these boys were paid wages by a master. In time, the guild members, merchants and master workers, formed into the middle class. They were between the classes of nobles and peasents. In the middle ages, there was a disease called Black Death, that swept through Europe. The plague began in Asia and spread along busy travel routes and ports from black rats that carried the disease and it was spread because the rats bit people.
     Section 4: In the middle ages, European culture underwent changes such as language and literature. People with little education spoke vernacular languages, which is everday speech that goes throughout town to town. Speaking of town to town, troubadours were travling singing who wrote poems about love and chivalry. In the middle ages, vernacular literature reached its height in works with two writers, Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer. Scholasticism was the attempt to bring faith together and reason. Peter Abelard, was a very important philosopher of scholaticism. But the greatest midievil philosopher was Thomas Aquinas.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

     During the 1000's the seliq turks gained control of Palestine. It was known to the Christians as the Holy Land. The turks went on to attack Asia Minor. When they threatened Constantinople, the byzantine empire called pope Urban II in Rome for help. In 1095, Urban caled a meeting of church leaders and feudal lords. The met in Clermont France. He asked the lords to stop fighting amongst themselves and join in a war to win back the holy land. The wore the cross of Christ on their right shoulderor back and cry out God wills it, God wills it.
Thus, the crusades began, a series of military expeditions to regain the holy land. 10,000 Europeans took up the cause. cruciata means marked with a cross. Some joined to save souls,some hoped to gain land and wealth in Palestineand southwesdt Asia, and some saw a chance for money.

  The first Crusade lasted from 1096 to 1099. French and Itailian lords led several armies of crusaders from Europe to Constantinopl. The Byzantine emporer was suspicious of them. After discussion, he allowed them to pass. Started long march to Palestine. Had few animals to carry supplies, so they had little suplies. The forged to Antinoch. Their main target was Jerusalem. Italian ships bbrought supplies. The Turks, were disunited and unable to prevent crusaders from surrounding a city. After many battles, the crusaders captured the city.

The capture brought much of the holy land under European rule. They set up four small states. They introduced the idea of European feudalism and subdivided the land into fiefs. The Christians and Muslims grew to respect eachotehr. Europeans began to ajust to customs. For 100 years Eurp Christians held onto Palestine.

Second Crusade- By 1146 the turks united their forcess. In 1147, the second crusade began. King Louis the seventh of france and german king conrad the third led seperate armies across euro.

1187- third crusade began, saladin gained control of Jerusalem three Eruo rules fredrick barbossa king Philip the second and king richard the first of england led seperate armies to 3rd crusade from 1189 to 1192. It failed, when barbossa drowned.

Fourth
Pope innocent gathered French Nights for Fourth crusade. 1202, tehy left to venice. The Venitians Persuaaded the crusaders to attack Zadar, a christian city. 1204, raided Constantinople. because itt was a christian city, the crusaders were later excommunicated by Pope Innocent. Constantinople was ruled by by western europe for 60 years. Byzantine eventually gained rule of Constantinople, but never regained strength, but collapsed when the turks seized them in 1453.

1212, childrens crusade started. Young people tried to take the holy land. Some of the children were sent home buy the pope, and some that made it to france were tricked into getting on a boad that would lead them to slavery. Several thousand children were lost, mostly from Germany and France, on the journey.

For many years, Euro. crusaders tried to recapture the holy land. The crusades lsted until 1291, when the muslims captured the ciry of Acre, teh last christiain stronghold in the Holy Land. With Acre's fall, the crusades ended.

The goal of the crusades were to take the Holy land from the turks. All, but the first failed to reach the goal. By the end, the muslims controlled Palestine.

During the crusades, the choice weapon wass the crossbow. The weapon fired a short heavy arrow called a bolt with the pull of a trigger. It also required less skill than the original bow. It could penetrate chain mail and plate armor. They learned how to undermine walls and use catapults.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Black History Month

Micheal Jordan
1. Born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York.
2. He played college basketball for North Carolina from 1982 to 1984.
3. He won 6 NBA Championships as a Chicago Bull.
4. He retired from the NBA in 1999.
5. He and his wife were married for 12 years before going through a divorce.

Tiger Woods
1. He was born on December 30, 1975.
2. In 1997, he won the Master's.
3. Wood's won his third U.S. Open in Pebble Beach.
4. He won 8 PGA tour events in one season.
5. Wood's had to pay a $100,000 fine because of his filming of a Buick.

Whoopi Goldberg
1. She was born on November 13, 1949.
2. In 1974, Goldberg moved to California.
3. She recieved a Grammy award for best comedy album.
4. Goldberg's latest work was in 2001.
5. In the early 1990's Goldberg was breifly married.

Duke Ellington
1. He was born on April 29, 1899.
2. On July 2, 1918 Ellington married Edna Thompson.
3. From 1927 to 1931 Ellington shared the leading position in the Jazz World.
4. From 1932 to 1942 was considered Ellingtons best decades.
5. Duke Ellington is generally considered to be the most important composer in jazz history.

Benjamin Banneker:
1. Banneker was the son of two slaves.
2. He was called the first african american inventor.
3. Banneker was the first to make a striking clock.
4. After his parent's died, Banneker studied astronomy.
5. In 1980, the U.S. Postal Service made a stamp to commimerate him.

Marcus Garvey
1. Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887.
2. He published a periodical called the Watchmen.
3. In 1914, he formed the UNIA.
4. Garvey was imprisoned in 1925 for lost investments.
5. Marcus Garvey was married twice and had two kids with one off those two wifes.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1. Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta.
2. He was assassinated April 4, 1968.
3. In 1944 King entered Morehouse College.
4. In 1957 King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
5. King was assassinated on the balcony outside his Memphis motel room.

Colin Powell
1. He was born in Harlem, on in 1937.
2. He graduated from the (ROTC) in 1958.
3. Powell stood at six feet and 200 pounds.
4. The youngest man to serve as chairman to the Joint Chiefs.
5. Powell was sworn in on December 16, 2001 to the U.S. Senate.

Lena Horne
1. She was born on June 30, 1917.
2. Her father's name was Edwin Horne.
3. In 1937, she married Louis Jones.
4. In 1947, she married Lennie Hayton.
5. In 1973, she toured England.

Ralph Bunche
1. Ralph was born August 7, 1904.
2. From 1928 to 1942 was a member of the department of political science.
3. In 1947 he was a member of the UN Secreteriat.
4. In June 1971, Bunche retired from his post as undersecratary general.
5. President Kennedy presented him with the medal of freedom.

Hank Aaron
1. He was born on Febuary 5, 1934.
2. In 1958, his batting average was .326.
3. In 1970, he had hit 500 home runs.
4. His second marriage was in 1973.
5. Aaron was one of the first black's to work in a major league front office.

Thurgood Marshall
1. He was born on July 2, 1908.
2. Marshall practiced law in Baltimore until 1938.
3. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases.
4. In 1967 President Johnson nominated Marshall on September 23, 1961.
5. His career emitomized the potential of American democracy.

Jackie Jayner-Kersee
1. She was born on March 3, 1962.
2. She had asthma and overcame it.
3. She won gold medals in 1988 to 1992.
4. She retired in 1998 following her final victory.
5. In 2000, she competed in the long jump.

Wilma Rudolph
1. She was born in 1940.
2. She won her first gold medal in 1959.
3. At the age of 4, she contracted polio.
4. She joined Tennessee State University in 1957.
5. Her autobiography was published in 1977.

Derrick Bell
1. He was the first tenured African American professor at Harvord.
2. He was born in Pittsburgh.
3. In the 1960's he taught at California.
4. In 1980, he became the dean at Oregan.
5. He was very important in the teachings of civil rights.

James Booker
1. He was born on December 17, 1939.
2. His father was a dancer from Texas.
3. When he was still a kid he was sent to Mississippi.
4. Throughout the 1960's, he worked with many artists on his work.
5. He died on November 8, 1983.

Wilt Chamberlain
1. He played 14 seasons in the NBA.
2. He scored 31,419 points over his career. 
3. He was elected to the hall of fame in 1978.
4. He scored 100 points in one game.
5. He won 4 MVP awards over his career.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Slide 7

No hero nero
Instead of caring
He decided to stay home alone:
While Rome was burning, Nero chose to stay away from all of it and not help his people.  It is also said that he was looking for a scapegoat during the abolishment of the city.

Slide 6

No hero nero
When it came to the burning of Rome:

 During the night of July 18, 64 A.D. fire broke out in Rome. It left 70 percent of the city diminished.

Slide 5

No hero nero

The Emperor Nero
Was not a hero:
It means that while Rome was burning, Emperor Nero chose not to care.

Slide 4

No hero nero
The Emperor Nero
Was not a hero
When it came to the burning of Rome
Instead of caring
He decided to stay home alone

Slide 3

Little Jack Horner

Advertisement:
Grand Opening of
Hawkins Pie Shop.

We chose a pie shop because in the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner is eating pie.

Slide 2

Little Jack Horner

 Jack Horner was the Steward (a very important role for managing the house hold) for the Bishop of Glastonbury. When it says, eating Christmas pie in the nursery rhyme, it meant that the deeds that Jack Horner stole were hidden in pie. When it says, he pulled out a plumb, it means that he found the Manor of Mells deed which was the most important one of all.


Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner,
Sat in a corner,
Eating of Christmas Pie:
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”




Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Technology Video

     In the video we learned that technology is becoming a major factor in our lives and the later generations. We learned that the average teenager sends over 2,000 texts a month, or that 250 million  people have visited facebook this month. We learned that twitter is now playing roles in presidnetial elections elsewhere in the world. We are now learning about jobs that don't even exist yet, and that China has the highest IQ in the world. that todays 21 year old's have watched 20,000 hours of tv, and talked for over 10,000 hours on the phone. This month, there were over 2.7 billion searches on google. Itis a fact that 1 and 5 teachers use technology in their everyday teaching. It is believed that in the next few years China will be the number one speaking English country in the world. It is amazing how every 1 and 8 couples that are married met online. The frist text messege was sent in 1992, now there are more than 1 million texts sent every month. During the video, 395 babies were born in India, and only 69 in the U.S.