Day 3: Wednesday July 4th

Its very strange not being home for the 4th! There is absolutely no hint here that today is one of America's biggest holidays! I wish I was at the lake with my family watching fireworks, but instead I am in a gorgeous country and going to class......so tough :-P

Today we went over all the really cool things we saw yesterday and went in depth about the Minoan civilization.
we learned:

• There are a commonalities among all Minoan palaces
• Center Court (a picture of this is in yesterday's post)
• West Court
• Religious Rooms
• There are specific entrances for visitors
• When you visit Knossos the entrance you use is the ancient Visitor's entrance
• At these entrances there are paintings depicting people carrying gifts into the palace to remind visitors they must present gifts when seeing the royalty
• In Minoan paintings that depict people the men are Red where as the women are White  
• the Prince is a pinkish color because he is considered to be above the common men 
•  The Minoan Civilization in Greece was around between 2000-1380 BC 
• it is one of two palatial civilations in Greece
• The Minoan Civilization of Greece remnants are found on the island of Crete (Knossos Palace for example)
• The Minoan Palaces had many roles in society
• economic uses
• administrative uses
• they were religious centers
• served as the residences of the powerful elites

We also went over the type of governmental systems found in Greece versus the US. As we all know, the US has a Presidential System of government. Greece, however, has a Parliamentary Multi-party Democracy. In the Presidential System of the US our leader is, obviously, the President; whereas in Greece it is the Prime Minister. Our teacher also pointed out that in Greece the natural physical, cultural, and transactional environment effects the public administration of Greece.

After all this information my head is spinning with knowledge, and am very ready for a nap.

Tomorrow we have another field trip so be prepared for pictures!

~ αγαπώ ~