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Back from Break

Today we got back from Easter break and Mert and Dylan did their tests. After they did that we went over them and started talking about Rome. Rome was supposedly founded by two twins named Romulus and Remus who were the children of the god Mars and a princess. Obviously this isn't true, Rome was built by many different people not two mythological twins. Rome's government was a republic which comes from the Latin word res publica which means " public affair." Republic is when people who are eligible to vote, vote for their leaders. Patricians are wealthy landowners while plebeians are common farmers. Tribunes were representatives of the plebeians.  Consuls were the officials. The senate was the aristocratic branch of government and dictators were leaders with absolute power over the government and the army. Legions were the grouping of troops in their army. The Punic Wars were wars between Rome vs. Carthage. Hannibal was a man who despised Rome and avenged Carthage...
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Test Review

Today we came up with questions for the test tomorrow. Some of the questions involved the emperors and kings of Rome while others involved the republic. There were also some on Hannibal crossing the Alps to launch a surprise attack on Rome. That happened in the second Punic War. A lot of people forgot what latifundia was. Latifudia were the big farms that became massive estates that were owned by the rich. Today there weren't any spiders, so no more Caesar the Spiders. Also here are some more things to know for the test. There were three Punic Wars, the emperor Nero was more involved with art than he was about helping his citizens, and Octavian was eventually renamed Caesar Augustus. Augustus meant "exalted one." Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by praetorians and the senate. Rome was built on the Palatine hill according to the myth of Romulus and Remus. It was Romulus' choice. Hopefully everyone does good tomorrow on the test.
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Designing the test

Today in human geo we discussed the questions everyone thought should be on the test. The one I said was which city does the Prime Meridian pass through which is Greenwich, England. Other questions involved what we learned on the C.I.A. World Factbook. Some of these included name the country with the most square miles and name the country with the highest population. One involved site and situation while others involved globalization. We also need to know what a cartographer is which is someone who makes maps. The United States has no official language and Sir Sanford Fleming introduced time zones, which there are 27 time zones instead of 24. The advantage of Peters over Mercator is that it has a more accurate representation of the size of the continents. The circadian cycle is your body's natural and biological clock. Think global act local means that you should change small local things and eventually it would make a global change. I hope that I ace this test.
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