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Today in my Western Civ class my class and I took a test on the Renaissance, some of the questions were who was the ultimate  Renaissance Man, what were people called who sponsored artists, were was Luther born, and other questions like this one.

Greco-Roman Culture - The mixing of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Culture Pompeii - Early painting Virgil - A poet who spent four hundred writing the most famous work of Latin Literature Tacitus - A roman historian Aqueduct - To help bring water to the cities/towns 5. Latin was the language in Rome, and remained the language of learning in the West long after the Romana Empire fell.  It was also the language for the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century.

Predestination - People God chose from the beginning  Calvinism - Based on Calvin's teachings Theocracy - Government controlled by religious authorities Presbyterian - Followers of Knox Anabaptist - Baptize again Catholic Reformation - Helping  Catholics remain loyal was a movement within the catholic church Jesuits - Members of the society of Jesus Council of Trent - Catholic bishops and Cardinals agreed on several doctrines 3. He Believed that they were chosen ahead of time and would be saved God no matter what. 4. 

Inflation - A drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise in prices Mercenary - Foreign Soldiers who fought for money Diocletian - A strong-willed army leader, became the new emperor Constantinople - A cities name or referred to as Constantine Attila - A powerful chieftain's name 3. Germanic Forces drove out / destroyed the Empire 4. He ruled with an iron fist and severely limited personal freedoms 5. The Germanic Forces invaded Rome mostly due to unifying under the leader named Attila and working as a team to destroy Rome

Renaissance: Means rebirth and refers to a revival of art and learning Humanism: An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements Secular: Worldly rather than spiritual and concerned with the here and now Patron: People who spend a lot of money on a certain kind of art for a long time Perspective: Shows three dimensions on a flat surface Vernacular: a type of language 2. Some of Italy's advantageous was 3. Some of the characteristics were that they all made amazing art/brought it back from it previous dormant state of being forgotten 4. 5.

Today in my Western Civilization class my class and I took a test about Rome, the entire test was multiple choice questions and I honestly don't think that I did well on this particular test.  I mean I did study a lot before the test, but as soon as I started taking it  I completely lost everything that I had studied.  I am not the best test taker, but everything else is pretty good for the most part, I do well on papers/projects, but tests are not my strong suit.  The test had  question that asked who certain peole were like who Nero was, who Tiberius was, etc.

Today in my Western Civilization class my class and I studied/reviewed how the Government came to be in a PowerPoint presented to us by our teacher.  Today was also the first day of seeing Mr. Schick since his surgery, he looked to be in good health and was, as always in a cheery mood.  We studied things such as the executive, judicial, and legislative branch of the government.   The American Government is taken almost exactly from the previous Roman one.    A strong military leader was chosen as the head of the Executive Branch, it has since been more career politicians.   The Legislative Branch was made up of Senators that came from wealthy individuals or families / backgrounds, not much has changed since then as it’s pretty much the same today.   The Judicial Branch spoke more, as it does now, for the common man. 

I was not in Western Civ class last Wednesday because I was flying down to Sanibel Island with my family for vacation.

I was not in Western Civ class last Thursday because I took a trip to Sanibel Island with my Family.

The history books provided for my class talks about how Pompey became Julius Caesar's politoical rival in the rap there is no recollection of this happening.  In the rap there is also talk of draining a swamp and building Rome on top of this dries out swamp there is no mention in the books about this.  I do however like that both the rap and the books cover that Julius Caesar team up with two other guys to attain political power, Pompey was one of these two guys that Caesar decided to team up with.  I think that both the rap and the books cover important point that the other one had missed 

I beleive hat the U.S. is not declining, yet.  I believe that we will out live the Roman Empire and remain as one of the more major World Powers, I say this because we have better medicine, weapons, and Allies around the world willing to help us to times of need.  An example of us remaining resilient was during the Great Depression, I am using this example because many people thought that the economy/stocks market would crash and a new system would but like the stock markets we came back stronger.  We achieved this through our Allies helping us and giving up in the government to do the correct and best thing for our Nation.  Another example of us being resilient is during World War 1 and 2, the Romans I can assure you did not have technological weapons such as guns, tanks, bombs, planes, or any of the other things, except for ships; the Romans also didn't experience the bombing of Pearl Harbor like we Americans did.  This is why I think that we will outlive the ...

Jesus - Savior sent from God, conceived in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit Apostle - People that supported and followed Jesus Paul - Big figure in early Christianity, helped convert people into Christians Diaspora - The dispersal of Jews Constantine - Fought 3 rivals for control of Rome, approved Christianity in rome Bishop - Was a priest that supervised several local choices Peter - One of the Apostles that traveled with Jesus, also became the first bishop in Rome Pope - The leader of the all of the Catholic churches/all of catholic church related things I think that one of the biggest things/impacts was when Christianity was accepted into Rome, this is a big event because it allowed Christians to come out of hiding ive a normal life in Rome again 3. Monotheism and the principles of the Ten Commandment 4. The Christians were exiled because they did not worship the same God's as the Romans did and were  seen as opposing the Roman Government 5. t he Nice...