Greece Is the Word

Today we started our class of by checking the answers on our Ancient Egypt chapter test. I got an 88% on the test which was the class average and our class had the highest class average. Then we were introduced to our new lesson of Greece! I'm so excited to start this unit because I absolutely LOVE learning about ancient Greece even after studying their work for two years. Mr Schick said we wouldn't be touching much on the mythology of Greece but oh my gosh I love read their stories. Greek mythology was my main eighth grade study and I love reading and understanding their adventures whether they were real or not. What we mainly went over today was Greece topography on a powerpoint. Greece has at least 1,400 islands off its coast and is also a peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean. Mediterranean actually means the middle of the Earth which the Greeks thought they were because they were so awesome. Most people were fishermen and built boats to take advantage of the peninsula. Kind of strange but Greece is a pretty mountainous area if you looked at a topography map. Even though Greece was a very advanced nation, they did not act like a nation. Sparta and Athens fought a lot and Greece stood more on the grounds of supporting your "county" more than your country. Greece was considered the peak of civilization and if things kept going like they did we might have been more advanced than we are now. I cannot wait to continue this lesson tomorrow and I'm so happy we are taking a whole month to learn it!