Today is Mr. Socrates' class we were told that the class was going to get more difficult as the year continues. We discussed maps and how we are going to work on them now that the whole Socrates thing is over. After talking about the next section we were given a packet to work on. I was a little nervous about doing the packet at first though because I am awful at mapping. I finished after a little bit which is surprising because I am really bad at geography. Maps are definitely not my strong suit. We were told not to turn it in but to instead keep it, now I'm probably going to lose it. As I am writing this Socrates is still talking about how Mexico and Hawaii can grow coffee and we can't. He is also talking about how when you travel to Canada you don't need a passport. I have visited Canada before to see Niagara falls and it was really pretty. I took the boat that actually goes under it and you can get soaked. Canada is in fact very peaceful but I like the US better. Then class ended and we all left.
FILM Athens lay in the middle of a Mediterranean peninsula. Reading and writing was a rare skill and there wasn't a such thing as medicine or science. The common people lived under the rule of the aristocrats. The Corinthians dominated the Greek trade. In the southern part of Greece Sparta built up a brutal fighting force so they could not be overtaken by newcomers. Images of Greek fighters are found all throughout Greece painted on walls and ceilings. The land around Athens grew olives and grains for the people to eat. People would boat into the Mediterranean Sea to be met by others to trade their goods. Hippias took over after his father and began to reign like him. After Hippias's brother was murdered, Hippias ordered execution after execution for revenge for whoever killed his brother. He became paranoid and suspicious of everyone and killed those he no longer liked. He ordered mass executions for the people that murdered his brother and for those families of the men who ...
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