Day 16 - A Trip to Greece
Today in WHAP we had a discussion about Greece and took a clicker quiz over the crash course videos we watched last night.
We started off class by assembling in our table teams and talking about the crash course video, and going over some of the questions we had. Then Cameron asked a question about how the Persian war started, and our whole class' purpose was transformed. Mr.Profitt gave us an option to either discuss Greece and the Persian war in detail, or for him to give us a little blurb. The catch was that if we discussed it in detail, we would miss out on something in class. No one answered, so Mr. Profitt chose to discuss Greece in detail.
First we discussed the geography, and the various peninsulas in the littoral region. Then, we talked about how greek cities are called a "polis", and that when the Greeks ran low on resources, they would go to war with nearby city-states.
I won't go over the whole summary of the Persian War, as you could easily glean that elsewhere, but I'll emphasize a few of the points I thought were interesting.
Mr.Profitt mentioned how lots of cities wanted to become a part of the Persian Empire, because they basically let everyone do what they wanted as long as they paid taxes. The Greek cities agreed to this, and joined the empire. Then when the Persians came to collect the taxes, the Greek cities wouldn't pay, even though they had already agreed to the terms, and looked for refuge within Greece. I suppose it's all fun and games until you have to pay taxes.
Then, later, after King Phillip had died and Alexander took over, Alexander conquered much of Greece. Then, to unite the Greeks with him and to brink some sort of order, he suggested they go fight the Persians, who they all hated. Alexander then led them to fight and eventually defeat the Persians. I like this little anecdote just because it's one of many historical instances where countries or cities that don't get along unite in order to fight a common enemy.
After this, the bell rang and we turned in our Frayer model drawings, and we were dismissed. Until Monday!
Postscript: I went to casino night tonight (21st), and after feeling a little lucky at the end, I went all in. Suffice to say I lost all my hard earned chips, which is a little lesson that applies to WHAP; Don't put all your chips(time) into one game(question), but spread the chips out over many games to maximize profit(final grade).
We started off class by assembling in our table teams and talking about the crash course video, and going over some of the questions we had. Then Cameron asked a question about how the Persian war started, and our whole class' purpose was transformed. Mr.Profitt gave us an option to either discuss Greece and the Persian war in detail, or for him to give us a little blurb. The catch was that if we discussed it in detail, we would miss out on something in class. No one answered, so Mr. Profitt chose to discuss Greece in detail.
First we discussed the geography, and the various peninsulas in the littoral region. Then, we talked about how greek cities are called a "polis", and that when the Greeks ran low on resources, they would go to war with nearby city-states.
I won't go over the whole summary of the Persian War, as you could easily glean that elsewhere, but I'll emphasize a few of the points I thought were interesting.
Mr.Profitt mentioned how lots of cities wanted to become a part of the Persian Empire, because they basically let everyone do what they wanted as long as they paid taxes. The Greek cities agreed to this, and joined the empire. Then when the Persians came to collect the taxes, the Greek cities wouldn't pay, even though they had already agreed to the terms, and looked for refuge within Greece. I suppose it's all fun and games until you have to pay taxes.
Then, later, after King Phillip had died and Alexander took over, Alexander conquered much of Greece. Then, to unite the Greeks with him and to brink some sort of order, he suggested they go fight the Persians, who they all hated. Alexander then led them to fight and eventually defeat the Persians. I like this little anecdote just because it's one of many historical instances where countries or cities that don't get along unite in order to fight a common enemy.
After this, the bell rang and we turned in our Frayer model drawings, and we were dismissed. Until Monday!
Postscript: I went to casino night tonight (21st), and after feeling a little lucky at the end, I went all in. Suffice to say I lost all my hard earned chips, which is a little lesson that applies to WHAP; Don't put all your chips(time) into one game(question), but spread the chips out over many games to maximize profit(final grade).
Just a quick comment about Alexander conquering Greece, he conquered some of it, but really, it was his father, Philip, who did much of the heavy lifting in getting many of the Greek city-States to join his rule either through force or diplomacy.
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