Ancient+Rome


 * **Ancient Rome: BBC**
 * **History - Death in Rome:**
 * Large coins were one-sestertius.
 * Smaller coins were one-denarius.
 * A wax tablet was a writing tool common to Rome.
 * A typical lunch dish was pork escalope with sweet wine cakes.
 * Flowers and herbs were used in industry, the kitchen, the temple, and to treat or prevent illness


 * **History - Gladiator:**
 * A Retiarius gladiator used the tools of a fisherman.
 * One weapon of a Retiarius gladiator is associated with Neptune.
 * A Hopomachus gladiator's helmet resembled a griffin like figure.
 * The sheild of a Hopomachus gladiator is based on the round bronz sheild of the Greek hoplite
 * A Murmillo gladiator takes his name from a Greek word for a kind of fish.


 * **Ancient Rome: Google Earth**
 * **Ancient Rome: Powerpoint**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PPT - 1:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Founded by twin brothers Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C.E.They were from a wealthy family and abandoned by their uncle. A She-wolf took them in and raised them. Then Romulus killed his brother Remus and took control of Rome.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The people who claimed to be original descendants, the governing class, and Magistrates were considered Patricians. Then the Plebians included the non-Patricians large land owners, less wealthy land owners, and Artisans, Merchants, and small farmers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Phoenicians controlled Carthage in earlier times. Romans sent an army to Sicily on order to intervene in a local despite; Carthaginians considered this an invasion of their territory. In 241 Carthage gave up all rights to Sicily due to Roman dominance in naval strength. Hannibal began the second Punic War. Hannibal led an army of 30, 000 - 40, 000 men, 6, 000 horses and elephants across the Alps and defeated the Romans. Roma invaded Carthage and beat Hannibal, a peace treaty was signed in 201 B.C.E.; Carthage lost Spain.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Julius Caesar made land reforms and gave land to the poor. He also increased the Senate to 900 members and then packed it with supporters of his reforms. Gave people in provinces who helped him, the status of Roman citizen.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All family members lived in one household, and father ruled. Women had considerable power and ran businesses and managed estates. However, ancestor worship was extremely important to the family.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PPT - 2:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Roman Republic from 509 BCE - 30 BCE. Roman Empire from 30 BCE - 476 CE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Primus inter pares means 'First amoung equals' Being the 'first amoung equals' gave the illusion that an emperor was the most prestigious and important member of the Roman state.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Augustus attempted to reform the public morals, encouraged growth of business, extended citizenship to provinces, built and maintained the empire's infrastructure, and also established fire and po-po departments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Pax Romana was Roman Peace.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Caligula and Nero both had a horrible rule, and were both either forced to commit suicide or were assassinated.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PPT - 3:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diocletian did this because it was the first step in the creation of what would become two separate empires.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Constantine and Christianity. Constantine's mother, Helena, was a converted christian. Therefore on his deathbed, once Christianity was legalized, he converted to Christianity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The accomplishments of emperor Justinian are as follows: he married Theodora (an intelligible courtesan), reunited the east and west, and rewrote Roman law to the Justinian Code.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Western (Roman) Empire officially ended in 476 CE when the last emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by a barbarian, Odoacer. The Eastern (Byzantine) Empire lasted until 1453 when the empire was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The reasons why Rome fell are as follows: gap between rich and poor, large estates became self-sufficient, armies made and unmade emperors, reliance on barbarian troops, decline in patriotism, East/West split, war/hunger/plagues, and religious divisions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Contributions the Roman civilization made to history were their science, languages, and law. In science, Galen (131 - 201 CE), summarized all Greek medical knowledge, and his work was almost the entire basis for anatomy and psychology. In languages they developed "Romance" meaning "Rome," therefore romance languages developed f4om Latin are as follows: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, ans Spanish. Finally, in Law the Romans developed Public law, Private (civil) law, and Peoples law. However there is another law, the Justinian Code, which is still used as the basis of civil law in many parts of Europe.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ancient Rome: Wordle**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I believe that without the Roman/Greek civilization our society today would not be the same.