Lincoln and Pericles Comparison

The Emancipation Proclamation and the Confederate State Constitution were documents and events that led up to the Gettysburg Address. ("U. S. History Primary Sources." Animated Atlas of American History. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .)

The Peloponnesian War led up to the funeral speech. ("Ancient Greece: The Pelopponesian War." Washington State University - Pullman, Washington. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .)

Lincoln says “These died will not have died in vain” and Pericles says that the Athenian men “nobly fought and died”. This shows that they both agreed that their men died nobly and will not be forgotten.

3/26/10 Viking Notes

• The name of the Viking King is Henry


• The Anglo-Saxon people were fighting against Normandy and the Vikings


• Harold Hadrada was the the general of the Viking army


• The battle of Fulford which is the battle between the vikings and the English


• The Viking archers were not very skilled

Roman Slave Essay

Slavery was important to thriving empires all over the world. An empire that relied on slavery was the Roman Empire. The Romans used slaves for various chores. Some of these chores and jobs include chopping wood, keeping a farm, and cleaning houses for no pay (Plautus). Because of the slaves the Roman Empire was able to focus on the battles and wars with other countries instead of tending to a farm and chopping wood. The slaves would also be used to serve the soldiers and entertain (Plautus). The Roman Empire would not have been as big as it was if it was not for the slaves that they had.
Slaves were used for many things including cooking, house cleaning, and just serving. Since the Romans did not really have to do any work with the farms or jobs of their empire they could focus on more important things like winning wars and gaining land. The slaves got barley anything in return. The slaves got a tunic of three and a half feet, shoes every two years, and some bread and wine to eat (Cato the Elder). The slaves did not like this way of life so they revolted for the last time and the Roman government caved in (Davis). The Roman government as a result of this result treated the Roman slaves better and gave them more rations and clothing (Davis). The slaves however still did not like their lifestyle so they revolted once again this time bringing knives and weapons (Plutarch). The Romans agreed to the slaves once again and that was the last revolt.
Slaves were so great in Rome that at the time Rome had more slaves than any other land known to them. John’s Hopkins University estimated that there were 300,000-350,000 slaves out of the Roman population of 900,000-950,000 (John Madden). This estimate shows that one in every three persons was a slave in Rome and Italy at that time. Pergamum had 40,000 adult slaves which was one third of the adult population in Rome (John Madden). Compared to Egypt which only had at the most ten percent of their population being slaves and as low as two percent, the Romans were well off when it came to slavery (John Madden). Many of these slaves would have either come from prisoners of war or piracy (John Madden). Before the Romans captured all these slaves they had a very few amount of them. The Romans started getting a lot of their slaves around 150 A.D. The average life expectancy for the Romans citizens was from 20-30 years. The slave’s life expectancy was shorter because they were treated like animals so they did not have good health or nutrition.
Slaves would die out rather quickly so they replaced them every twenty years (John Madden). There were male slaves then female slaves because of the body structure of a man were more useful for the jobs the Romans had the slaves do. They would use the men for building, mining, agricultural purposes, and industry purposes (John Madden). They used the women for different jobs like weaving, cloth making, and cooking (John Madden). The women slaves would also be used to populate Rome by having babies. These are the jobs that the slaves would so everyday to keep Rome a better place to live for the Romans.
The slaves were used for chores and tedious jobs that the Romans did not want to do. This in turn helped the Romans win more wars and get more land because they could concentrate on other things. The slaves were not paid and did work for almost nothing to the Romans. This helped the Roman economy and Rome in general. Without the slaves Rome would not have been as big as we know it as today. For all of these reasons slaves helped Rome to become the empire that we know and study today.

Citations: John Madden slavery in Rome and statistics "MADDEN: Roman Slavery." Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://web.archive.org/web/20031211005259/www.ucd.ie/classics/96/Madden96.html>.

Plautus, Cato the Elder, and Plutarch agriculture slavery in the Roman Republic "Ancient History Sourcebook: Slavery in the Roman Republic." FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1.html>.

Diodorus Siculus Roman slave revolts FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm>.

"Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome." FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html#Slavery>.

Required Daily (Gibbon and Tonybee)

Gibbon and Tonybee did not get along at all. They had completly different opinions about how and why the Roman Empire fell. Tonybee believed that the rise of Christianity had nothing to do with the fall of the Roman Empire. However Gibbon believed that because of the rise of Christianity in Rome caused the Roman Empire to fall. Anything that Tonybee would say Gibbon disagrees with. These two were in a different mind set when they used different perspectives to decide whether the rise of Christianity in Rome had anything to do with the Roman Empire falling. There is no right answer but these men backed up their evidence and used it to argue against the other.

Citations: "Medieval Sourcebook: Gibbon: The Fall of the Roman Empire." FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. .

"Arnold Toynbee - Christianity and Civilization." Welcome to MYRIOBIBLOS - The Etext Library of the Church of Greece. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. .

Picture Citation: "File:Arte Por Ruth Woroniecki De Jesus En La Cruz.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. .

3/22/10 Sumarian Notes

• The Sumarians were the first civilization to live in ancient Iraq
• The first system of law in the world is the code of Hemerabi
• They opened up the first trade routes
• The Zigarot was the temple in Mesopatamia
• They describe the place of the Garden of Eden is in Mesopatamia
• Tels are mounds of dirt and sand that are located over ancient structures sometimes
• Tutankan was found in the valley of the Kings
• The Pyramids are basicially big tombs
• The Pharoah had to be buried in a way where they would be able to make it to the afterlife
• They believed in a judgment day where your Ka would be judged
• They covered the walls of the tombs with paintings of the things that the deceased liked to do to keep their Ka ammused
• They weigh the heart against a feather to establish if you will go onto the afterlife or your soul would be killed
• Four months out of the year the Nile floods
• They sacrificed children to the minotaur and then a guy came and killed it
• Crete got blasted by tsunamis and ash to wipe out the civilization
• Thera was the name of the volcanoe that destroyed Crete

Viking Pictures

Good and Bad Article

Being good and doing what you need to survive are not always the same. Sometimes people do things that they think they need to do to survive, but other people may think are bad things to do. Many people view the Vikings as bad because of the way the Vikings fought with other people to take what they had. This was not the view of the Vikings themselves because they believed that they were only doing what they needed to survive. In this paper I am going to address the reasons why the Vikings needed to take over different countries, and why they thought that this was OK, and why the people that the Vikings fought with thought they were bad.
The land that the Vikings lived on was not fertile and they did not have a lot of fishing. This made the life of a Viking extremely hard. The Vikings mainly relied on their cattle to survive, but if their cattle died in one of the winters then they would be in trouble. When there was not enough to live on in their region, the Vikings turned to fighting to get what they needed. This was a normal part of their culture. The Vikings even turned on the different Viking clans to get just what they needed to survive.
In most cultures, if there were not enough crops or goods to support the people, then the people would develop tools or ways to produce more things, or move to a region that could support them. The Vikings did not do this. Instead, their culture led them to fight to get what they needed. They started trying to make a boat that could cross the ocean to get to England where they could take more things from others. They did succeed in this act and headed for the monastery of Lindisfarne (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html). They killed everyone and took all of their possessions. Since the monks were unarmed, the Vikings were easily able to take care of them. Most people would think that fighting unarmed monks was very bad but the Vikings did not see this as bad at all. It was part of their way of life. The Vikings raided monasteries because the Vikings considered silver as the most valuable precious metal. The monasteries had a lot of silver because they would have glasses, silverware, and crosses all made out of silver (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html). The Vikings thought that stealing from monasteries was good because it was easy to defeat them, but most other cultures would believe that it is bad to fight with defenseless monks.
The Vikings showed little mercy to the people that they stole from and did not stand by any other value than taking what they wanted. They went through the English Aisles, conquering and plundering all through the countries that were there. They were so feared in Europe that when they were coming to Paris, the king of Paris agreed to pay them almost four tons of silver and gold just to leave them alone (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html). The Vikings did this for a while but then realized that Paris probably had a lot more silver and gold that they could steal. The Vikings went back and raided Paris again, even though they took the silver and gold that was given to them to not raid Paris. The Vikings saw this as a good thing because they got more gold and silver, but most cultures would see the Vikings as bad because they did not keep their word.
The Vikings were not a friendly people. Instead of building up their country from the inside, they were taught how to kill. Killing was so important to the Vikings that they had a special process for training called a berserker. A berserker was a part of the training to become a Viking warrior. They would dress the young warrior in the hide of an animal and then they would become the animal (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html)
It is not hard to see why the Vikings were hated and feared by the other countries of their time. They would steal from a country, kill most of the population, and then leave. Vikings saw this as the right way to support their way of life, but all of the other countries saw this as very bad. Even today, the things that the Vikings thought were good, like killing, stealing, and lying, are thought to be bad values by most of the countries of the world. This is a clear example of how doing what you thing you need to do to survive and being good are two very different things.

Citations: "Viking -." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Mar. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking>.

"Medieval Sourcebook: Crisis, Recovery, Feudalism?" FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 19 Mar. 2010. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html>.

Picture Citation: "File:Vikings Enluminure.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 20 Mar. 2010. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vikings_enluminure.jpg>.

Viking Creation Story Daily

In the beginning there was nothing. No grass, no water, no heaven, nor an earth. Then Othin, Vili, and Ve started created land, grass, and water. There were leeks growing out of the ground which stands for fine growth. Then there was stars, the moon, and the sun. These were made by Bur's sons. They then sought out the gods and assembled them at the council. They gave names to them like night, twilight, and evening to represent the different times of day. They built shrines and temples to live in. The gods played games with each at tables. They then raised the race of dwarfs and Durin next. They also made men to go along with the dwarfs. The dwarfs found home in the fields of sand. These creatures had no soul or sense so Othin gave them soul and Honir gave them sense. Lothur gave them heat so they could live. Then there was the Yggdrasil ash that came up a tree. Hor had burned Heath three times yet she still lives. Then there were giants who sat and lived on hills. There was the rust red bird of Hel at the bars of Hel. They created elves to go on the earth as well. This was the viking story of creation.

Citations: "The Poetic Edda: Voluspo." Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. .

"File:Die Edda (1876).djvu -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. .

"File:Edda.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. .

Horns Daily

Vikings did not wear helmets with horns on them when they wentinto battle. The only vikings that wore helmets were vikings who performed rituals. The Vikings thought that the helmets would do more harm than good on the battle field. The horns were made out of stylized ravens, snakes, or horns. The idea of the horns came about in the 19th century. The helmets that the vikings would wear were made out of hard leather, wood, and metal reinforcements. The only true viking helmet is in Norway. This can be dated back to the 10th century.

Citation: "Viking -." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 17 Mar. 2010. .


Picture Citation:"Search Results for "viking Helmet" -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 17 Mar. 2010. .

2/17/10 More Viking Notes

• Each fleet acted independately
• They were considered terrorists because they relied on terror to win most of their battles
• They attacked monestaries more because of all the silver that they would have
• They set their target for Paris
• The Prince payed the vikings almost six tons of silver and gold to the vikings so they would leave
• It turned out that the opposite happened. The vikings attacked Paris more because they had more loot
• Erik the Red and Lief Erikson were two famous Vikings
• Fishing in Greenland was excellent but the land could not be farmed
• Lief Erikson was the first to find North America
• This colony was only around for a decade however
• Lief Erikson converted the Greenland colonies to Christianity
• The people did not like giving up their Pagan ways
• The test was that if the Pagan could pass through the Christian fire than the religion would be Pagan and vice versa
• Harold was the 15 year old boy

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3/16/10 More More Viking Notes

• They would only use the stars to guide them


• They thought that the world ended because it was flat


• Rome falls in 476 and now we're moving into the middle ages


• The middle ages are start at the 14th and 15th centuray


• Vikings live in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark


• They were not Christianized in the early middle ages


• Ireland is one of the biggest Christian population


• They attack the British Iles in Ireland


• They are there between the 7th and 9th centuaries


• There are nine worlds in Norse mythology


• Midgard, Alfheimr,Svartaheim,Vanaherimr,Muspellheim, Jotunheimr,Nilfheim,Asgard,Hel


• We live in midgard and to the north of us is Alfheimr where elves live


• Svartaheim is where the black elves live


• Muspellheim is the land of fire


• Vanaherimr is the land of the heroes


• Jotunheimr is the land of the giants


• Niflheim is the world of ice


• Asgard is the good afterlife and you got go there if you were a hero


• Hel was the regular afterlife


• Ginnunggagap was the land farthest away and no one had ever been there


• There were three books that are important for this mythology


• The first is the Edda which is made up of two books. This book is the book of the gods.


• The first book is the poetic book and the second book is the Heimskringla is the book about the great kings


• The Yggdrasil tree was around at the beggining of creation


• A man hanged himself on this tree and then 9 days letter came back with the alphabet


• They used this alphabet for casting runes


• They were cut from tree and would have runes on them


• The second story was the story of a great battle at the end of the world between the gods


• The entire world would be turned into fire and this was called Ragnarok


• Then from the ashes would grow a new world


• The Heimskrigla was written by Snorri Sturluson. He wrote this much later then when they ruled


• The word saga comes from the vikings


• They would make beserkers by covering them by different animal hides


• Leif Ericsson found Iceland and he came to America


• This was 500 years before Columbus


• They would have boats for river journeys and open water

3/15/10 Roman Empire Notes

• The Roman Empire is now coming to an end
• Septimius Severus was the first African emperoro of Rome
• He also has the title of being the last dynasty of Roman emperor
• Caracalla is assassinated because he is terrible
• The age of the soldier emperors is given this name because the Roman generals try to conquer Rome but end up either getting assassinated or taken over
• There are now five guys at a time trying to be the emperor
• Diocletian changes the government. He sets up the Tetrarchy which is Greek for the rule of four.
• War breaks out between the four and the two remaining are Maxentius and Constantine
• The battle of Milvian Bridge happens on October 28, 312 which was the battle between these two people
• Constantine wins the battle
• He had his soldiers paint Chi ro on his soldiers shields
• Christianity is now legal in Rome
• This paves the way for Christianity to be the dominant religion in Europe
• He moves the capitol of Rome to Constantinopale
• The empire falls in 476
• They use symbols like Icthus because Christianity was ilegal
• They met in the catacombs to have mass and what not
• You need to have both the Church and the army on your side to be a successful emperor

Augustine Daily

Augustine of Hippo was a saint. He was also a Latin Church father and responsible for the development of western chirstianity. He was the framer of the concepts of original sin and just war. He also developed the concept of the Church. He was extremely religious and was though that he could heal the sick. He proved this wrong when he said "Don't you think that I would have applied it to myself first". This shows that he could not heal the sick and he died that summer August 28,430. He lived seventy six years and devoted his life to the Church.

Citations:"Augustine of Hippo -." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. .

"Augustine of Hippo." Georgetown University: Web Hosting. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. .

Portrait Daily

These potraits represent a break and a continuation of the past because in the Ravenna potrait one of the men has a glowing circle over his head. This glowing circle shows that he has the Holy Spirit within him telling him how to live his life and what to do. In that potrait you can also see a book which could represent the Bible or another holy book that they followed. The people in this picture also had robes on resembling holy men or priests. In the other potrait, the Fayum potraits, you could see a headress that a mummy would wear and the boy who that belonged to. This represents ancient Egyptian religion and how they would preserve the bodies so that Ka could come and take their souls to the afterlife.

Citations: "File:Meister Von San Vitale in Ravenna 003.jpg -." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. .

"Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt | Past Exhibitions | The Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Metmuseum.org. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. .

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Roman Empire Falling Article

The Roman Empire was the biggest and most successful empire in the ancient world. The Roman Empire had the biggest army and controlled the most land compared to any other empire. When I think of the Roman Empire, I think of the greatest empire that there ever was. The Roman Empire did not fall; the Roman Empire just became less powerful. Even though it did not control everything that it once had, the Roman Empire did not fall because you can see some of Roman philosophy, politics, and architecture still in use even today. Modern day plumbing was based off of the aqueducts in Ancient Rome. We also got most of our politics, including the right to veto, from the Ancient Roman civilization. We also use their form of architecture like the columns and roads. This is why the Roman Empire did not fall; it just evolved into what we know of it today.
The argument that Rome did not fall is based on the fact that parts of their empire are still in use today. One of these parts is Roman architecture. We still use Roman architecture in our everyday lives and we do not even realize it. When we flush the toilet we are using Roman inventions and architecture because they created the first plumbing system (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_technology.htm). When we water our crops, we do not realize that the Ancient Romans came up with the first irrigation system. Sometimes we can take clean water for granted because if it were not for the Romans we still may not have clean drinking water in our cities and towns today. The Romans can up with a way to clean the water by putting rocks and pebbles in the aqueducts which would keep all the dirt and mud behind while the water could get through (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_technology.htm). Another architectural invention that we could not live without today is the invention of roads (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_technology.htm). I cannot even think about a world without roads. It would be a lot tougher for people to get to work or stores to get products to sell without our system of roads. The world would have to think of another to get around effectively. Without Roman architecture and inventions, we would all have to live in small towns close to water. We can now live far from the water and have big cities because of what the Roman Empire did. This is one way that the Roman Empire lives on even today.
The next part of the Roman Empire that is still in use today is their religion. Paganism is not what most people believe, but there are people who still believe in many gods and witchcraft ("Ancient Roman Religion." Oracle ThinkQuest Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .)
. This shows that the Ancient Roman religion did go away entirely. Even though not many people still believe in many gods, there are a few religions who do like the Hindus. Hindus believe that there is many gods that make up one God, which is like a combination of what Christianity believes today and what the Romans believed back then.("Ancient Roman Religion." Oracle ThinkQuest Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .). This is another example of why the Roman Empire did not fall. Their religion of polytheism is still somewhat used today("Ancient Roman Religion." Oracle ThinkQuest Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .). The Roman Republic also had a system of politics that is still used today. The American government uses a House of Representatives and a Senate. In the Roman Republic, they had a Senate which made all the laws that controlled how the Roman people lived "Ancient Rome Government." UNRV History - Roman Empire. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .. ).This Senate was mostly made out of Patricians, however, so there was not a whole lot of room for the Plebeians to make decisions ("Ancient Rome Government." UNRV History - Roman Empire. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .).
The Patricians were afraid that the Plebeians were going to revolt so they gave the Plebeians one seat in the Senate called the “Tribune of the Plebs” ("Ancient Rome Government." UNRV History - Roman Empire. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .). Even though they only had one seat in the Senate, this was the only seat that could veto a law ("Ancient Rome Government." UNRV History - Roman Empire. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .). This made the Plebeians have a better say in things and could live by their rules now. This is another example of a way that the Roman Empire is still used in the world today.
The Roman Empire grew to be very powerful and controlled a large part of the ancient world. While it did lose this power and control, it never really “fell” because we still use many of the good parts that their empire believed in and developed. I believe that if the values and inventions of a culture of a group of people are still in use thousands of years after the people are gone, that that empire didn’t really “fall”.


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"Ancient Roman Religion." Oracle ThinkQuest Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .

"The Many Gods of Hinduism, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva." World Religions and 101 Cults and Sects. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .

"Ancient Rome Government." UNRV History - Roman Empire. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. .

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Scavenger Hunt

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/animals.htm

This link is to a website that helps kids learn about ancient Egypt through a safe interactive journey. This website also has links to other websites that go further in depth to some of the subjects like mummification. This site has interesting information about Egyptian gods, Hieroglypics, and the Egyptian religion. I rate this website a thumbs up when it comes to teaching kids about the culture and the ways ancient Egyptians lived back then. This is a great way to get kids interested and educated about ancient Egypt.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/gladiator/index_embed.shtml

This is a link to an interactive Roman gladiator game. In this game you dress three gladiators according to what the game says to dress them in. It is a memory game in that you need to remember what armor to put on each person. This game is a great and interesting way for kids to learn about gladiators and what their weaponry was back then. I give this site two thumbs up for making this an intersting way to learn about gladiators. Kids will definately like this way of learning about the life and hardships of being a gladiator.

Citation: "The Internet Classics Archive The Deeds of the Divine Augustus by Augustus." The Internet Classics Archive: 441 Searchable Works of Classical Literature. Web. 11 Mar. 2010. .

Picture Website: Wikimedia Commons. Web. 11 Mar. 2010. .

3/10/10 Roman leaders Notes

• Augustus used a Principate to rule
• The Prima Porta Augustus is a famous sculpture of him
• Augustus is the son of Julius Caeser
• Augustus is saying that he is of divine Lineage
• The Romans held standards which were like their flags when they went into battle
• He lost two of his legions to tribsmen in the north
• This was political propagande
• Lithia had a son named Tiberius
• Tiberius had a perch that he liked to sit on and throw slaves off of
• Caligula is a nutcase. He liked to bring people in to be murdered
• He tried to make his horse a Roman politician
• He had a close relationship with his sister
• He gets assasinated and bring on Claudius
• Nero was a very obese and sick man
• Nero burned down Rome because he wanted to build a park
• Nero is forced to commit suicide. As he is doing this he says the world is losing a great artist
• Vespasian comes to power after Nero. He is the complete opposite of the Julius family
• He is very strict and doesn't like nonsense
• The Christians got in trouble because they refused to pay the taxes
• His son Titus takes over after his death
• Titus built the Flavian Amphitheatre which is the colleseum
• He is also famous for the arch of Titus
• Titus burns the temple that the Jews practiced in
• The Wailing Wall is the remains of the Jewish temple
• It has been rebuilt as a Mosk over the temple
• This is why there is so much tension between the Arabs and Jews because they both claim that the ground is theirs
• Titus is followed by Domitian. He put up Roman baths
• These were the health clubs of the day
• All Roman cities had bath houses
• He wound up getting himself assassinated
• KNOW THE NAMES AND DATES THAT THESE GUYS SERVED
• Nerva 96-98, trajan 98-117, hadrian 117-138, antonius pius, and marcus aurelius
• Nerva changes the way emperors are chosen
• The emperor would now choose who is going to be the next emperor
• He chooses trajan . Trajan went ot war against the dasians
• Trajan's column was the monument to that war
• He then chooses Hadrian which is the emperor who was bit of a renassance man
• He was a poet, a philosopher, a traveler, and an art lover
• He is the first one to have facial hair
• Hadrian wanted to be seen as a Greek philosopher

Rome's Empire Daily

I think Rome was better off as an empire than a Republic because now the Patricians don't rule everything. Rome also has a better chance of conquering more land because they are run by an army now not a government. The Plebians also have a better chance of having what they want and making decisions. Rome is now a stronger army and a weaker chance of a rebellion because everyone is getting what they want.

Picture Citation: "File:Actium.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 09 Mar. 2010. .

3/8/10 General Roman Notes

• The general Roman population was living in Sabora
• They were living in unsanitary conditions
• This was the daily life for the Plebians
• The Patricians lived in country houses near Vesuvius
• They were located on the bay of Naples
• The Gracchi brothers were Tirbunes
• They argued on behalf of land rights for Plebians
• There are two basic political parties
• The Optimares are the Patrician Aristicratic senators
• The Populares were more concerned with the common people
• Both of these brothers are assasinated
• The states surrounding Rome begin to revolt in the Social war
• 91-88 BCE is how long this war lasted
• They both have their own standing armies who are loyal to them
• Marius and Sulla are going to war with each other
• Sulla pushes Marius out of Rome with his army
• The Senate diverts him by sending him on a war with the east
• Julius Ceaser is born in 100 BCE
• He is born into a Patrician family
• He becomes a Senator and tries to go for the highest in the council
• Caeser goes to the people in Rome and gets their vote
• The council puts a man who is the complete opposite of Caeser so he could get nothing done
• They send Caeser to Gull which is in the middle of nowhere
• He conquers Gull while he is there
• Rubican is the river that he crosses
• Pompey was considered one of the best generals in Rome
• He got his name by clearing out the Pirates
• They wanted him to save them from Caeser
• They have a battle at Pharsalus
• Pompey loses but he escapes
• An assasin meets him at Egypt and decapitates him
• Caeser thought this was not respectful and did not like that
• He meets a woman named Cleopatra
• She is the last in line for the Talamayic rulers
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Ancient Rome Article

There are many aspects of Ancient Rome that we see in our society today. Whether these things are in the area of the way we build our buildings and cities, or in the political system we use to govern our country, many of these things were descended from Roman culture. The Romans invented or improved on many things like the game of soccer and the use of columns in architecture. These inventions helped shape the world we know today. We even see some of the Roman politics in our government today. Where do you think we got the idea for a House and a person who could veto any law if they did not agree with it? All of these and more were invented by the Romans and helped them to live their everyday lives. I will not only be looking at what some of these developments were, but also how and why it affects our everyday lives. Without Roman practices and inventions our world would not be like it is today.
One of the big inventions of Rome that is still used today is the aqueducts. These aqueducts were way ahead of their time when you think about it. The aqueducts were a system of troughs built for the transportation of water (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_inventions.htm). These aqueducts were also used for irrigation purposes. These aqueducts would go from city to city. They were built not only to transport water, but to also filter the water. These aqueducts were the first man made water purifying system (http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php). In order to filter the water they would stack rocks inside of the aqueducts. These rocks would let the water pass through but would keep some of the dirt and other materials behind (http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php). These systems of aqueducts were the basis for modern day plumbing that we know today. Having running water throughout our cities and into our homes makes our everyday life possible. We use these plumbing systems to drink from, wash dishes, irrigate crops, and go to the bathroom. The aqueducts changed the way they lived back then and the way we live today.
Another invention of the Romans that is useful still today is a system of roads (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_inventions.htm). The Romans were able to see that making pathways that were easy to travel on would be good in helping people get around in a city and also be good in connecting between the cities in their empire. They invented concrete as the material to build the roads with (http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/ancient_roman_inventions.htm). The roads were useful in Roman times, especially when they were traveling long distances with their armies. We depend on roads today for everything from getting us to school and work every day to the transportation of food and products across the country and the world.
Another great architectural invention by the Romans that went along with the roads was bridges. Bridges help us get across the country in a more direct way because we don’t have to go around obstacles like rivers and other steep terrain. Without bridges we would not be able to drive all of the places we drive today. If you think about where you go each morning you will see that many people cross bridges just to get around. These structures helped the Romans and their army get where they wanted to go more quickly and directly. When their armies were going on big trips they needed a bridge to cross over different water bodies instead of having to go longer distances to get around them. We still use bridges today even though they are a lot bigger than the ones built in Roman times.
The Romans also came up with the idea of taking a Census. The Census is a count of the people in country that happens every decade now and makes sure everyone is a counted for. In Roman times, one of the uses of the Census was to make sure that everyone paid the taxes that they were supposed to. Today the Census helps states get the money and programs from the government that is needed to support the number of people in the area.
When you look at developments that the Romans made in the areas of government, architecture and the road system, and compare these to the way we are still doing things today, you can see that there is really nothing ancient about Rome. These Roman inventions are still working in the world today and are necessary for a functional life. The Romans came up with stuff that can last centuries and can still be used as effectively as they were back then.

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Roman views on women and children Daily

They were treated unfairly because one of the laws is that they are owned by slaves even when they become powerful. You can see there feelings toward children by the twelve tables when they say "A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed" (http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html Table 4, Article 1). They say "If a father surrender his son for sale three times, the son shall be free" (Table 4, Article 2 http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html). "Females by reason of levity of deposition shall remain in guardianship even when they have attained their majority" (Table 5,Article 1 http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html). "Women must not tear cheeks or hold chorus of "Alas" on account of a funeral" (Table 10,Article 4 http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html). The Roman men thought of children as objects not human beings.

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Picture Daily

The picture that I found was the columns at Bel Air. These columns represented the architecture of that time. These columns were signifigant to this time period and the buildings in Rome. These are still used today as you can see. This picture I got from the Colonade Imagin Center on 39 Churchville Road in Bel Air. This architecture has lived on for centuries showing that the Roman ways are still lived on through us in modern times. This shows you that if your empire is strong enough that the customs can live on for generations.

3/3/10 Romans fighting Hannibal Notes

• The Romans sent out 60,000 troops to Cannae to defeat Hannibal
• Hannibal took his troops through the Alps and the Pyrenees mountains
• He brought elephants with him to help him
• His father made him take an oath to always hate the Romans
• This was one of the greatest loses in the history of battles
• Hannibal won all the battles but he can't win the war
• He never sieged the city of Rome
• In the battle of Zama Hannibal attacks first with the war elephants
• The Romans let the elephants come in and then they blew horns to scare the elephants
• They headed back into the Carthaginian line
• The Romans are victorious at this battle
• Scipio becomes so famous that they give him the title Africanus
• This was 100 miles south of Carthage
• Hannibal hadn't lost a single battle
• The Romans sieged Carthage
• Scipio Aemilianus is the son of the other guy
• He sieges Carthage in the third Punic war and then spreads salt so nothing can grow there anymore

Authors Daily

Herodotus was a Greek who lived during the classical age. Usually reffered to as the father of history. He was the first historian to ask people about the history and then wrote history on it. He wrote the history of the Persian Wars. He lived from 484 to 425 BC. He wrote nine books that were split up into sections. These sections were called the Cyrus, the Cambyses, the Darius, and the Xerxes. His history was known to be read during the games at Olympia..

Thucydides was a man who wanted the facts of history not just opinions. He lived from 460-395 BC. He was the author who wrote down the history of the Peloponissian War. He also lived in the classical period of time. He was competing against Herodotus to get the best kind of history

Livy is a Roman Historian. Lives during the time of emperor Agustus. HE writes history from Romlulus and Reamus all the way up to his history. Book 21 of Livy's history is where we get the Punic Wars and Hannibal. He lived from 59 BC to 17 AD. His only surviving work is the "History of Rome".



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Conflict of the Orders Daily

The struggles of the orders influenced ancient Rome politics because it opened up a whole new chapter in the difference between the Plebians and the Petricians. The Plebians were at the breaking point of a rebelion. The Petricians realized this so they made a rule that the Plebians could have one seat in the Republic. This seat was called the Tribune of the Plebs. They might have only one seat but that one seat was the only seat that could veto a law. This made it better for the Plebians because they could now act against the Petricians and have some things their way.

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Submission

Hannibal lived from 248-183 BC. Hannibal was a Carthaginian military commander. He was also the commader-in-chief of the Carthaginian army. He lived during the time when the Romans set up a Roman Republic. What made Hannibal different were his tactics. Hannibal was the first person to use elephants in his strategies. When you think about it elephants were a perfect weapon because they were so strong and fast. When Hasdrubal was assisnated Hannibal became commader-in-chief. He won many battles in trying to take Italy for the Carthginians. I do not think his reputation of a monster was deserved. He didn't do anything wrong he just won battles. Using elephants was a good call for Hannibal, but that doesn't make him a monster for using them.

Citation:"Hannibal -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal>.

Picture Citation: "File:Hannibal.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannibal.jpg>.

Rome is going to transform to the greatest civilization
Aeneas is the last surviving warrior of Troy
He brings his people from Troy to Africa and then to Italy
Dido is the Queen of Carthage
Dido and Aeneas fall in love
Dido commits suicide when Aeneas has to leave Carthage to go to Italy
They find Latins there who live in Latium
They carry out a great was with the Trojans and lose
The Greeks maintain a hold over most of southern Italy
The Trojans then set up a town called Alba Longa
Romulus and Remus were kept alive by a shewolf in the forest
They grew up and had a sibling rivalry and had a war
Romulus founded the city of Rome
The Etruscans live just north of Rome
They rules the city of Rome for several generations
Tarquin the sixth rapes the wife of a royal noblaman
This is led by Lucius Junius Brutus
He had trouble with public speaking, but when the girl killed herself he leads the Roman Republic
This was established in 509 BCE
They give the Plebians one seat in the Senate
They call this the Tribune of the Plebs
This was the only seat that could veto a law
The Plebs vote for the Tribune of the Plebs person
They decide to fight everything else
They go north first and sees a chance to take most of northern Italy
Rome usually did not kill all the people, they just made the land theirs
They would get young men to join the Roman army
Pyrrhus of Epirus can't win the war but can win every battle
He couldn't win because he loses all of his good soldiers during these battles
Rome is a somebody because they pop him
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