Ancient+Rome


 * Death In Rome**
 * **When a Roman had an enlarged liver blood letting was used as treatment.**
 * **Large coins are one sestertius**
 * **Small coins are one denarius**
 * **Cockerals were used as sacrificial animals in Rome.**
 * **Romans would constantly add ingredients to wine to improve the flavour.**




 * Gladiator**
 * **Roman gladiators would dress to mimic mythical figures.**
 * **Gladiators would be matched to make the fights entertaining.**
 * **Retarius gladiators used weapons like a fisherman.**
 * **The murmillo gladiator takes his name after a fish.**
 * **A wooden sword being presented to a gladiator meant he had earned his freedom.**




 * Ancient Rome Google Earth KMZ**


 * Powerpoint #1**
 * 1) **Rome is believed to have been founded by twins Remus and Romulus in 753 B.C.E. These brothers were supposedly from a wealthy family and were abandoned by their uncle. A female wolf took them in and raised them, but Romulus eventually killed his brother becoming sole leader of Rome.**
 * 2) **In Rome the social and political order went as follows: The Plebians were basically average citizens, and the Patricians were upper class men. The Plebians were people who although still owned land, had no where near the amount of mon ey the Patricians had. The Patricians claimed to be decendants of the original senators appointed by the kings.**
 * 3) **During the first Punic war the the Romans sent an army to Sicily in order to intervene in a local dispute, but the Carthaginians considered this an invasion of their territory.**
 * 4) **Julius Ceasar had in 47 B.C.E. seized power in Rome and was made dictator. He made land reforms and gave land to the poor, and he also incrweades the number of senators to 900.**
 * 5) **In Rome all members of a family would live together. The father was the head of the house, but the women still had a considerable amount of power. A family would tend to worship ancient ancestors.**


 * PowerPoint #2**
 * 1) **The Roman Republic was alive from 509 B.C.E. - 30 B.C.E. The Roman Empire was alive from 30 B.C.E - 476 C.E.**
 * 2) **The phrase Primus inter pares means fist amoung equals.**
 * 3) **Augustus' goal was to renew the public ways, encourage business expansion, extend citizenships to provinces, and build and maintain the order of things in the empire.**
 * 4) **The pax Romana was Roman Peace.**
 * 5) **Both Nero and Caligula were horrible emperors and were forced to commit suicide.**


 * PowerPoint #3**
 * 1) **Diocletin was the man who split Rome into two halves, and he did this because he thought it would strengthen the empire; however, he was wrong.**
 * 2) **Constatine's mother, Helena had converted to christianity, and so did Constatine while on his deathbed.**
 * 3) **Emperor Justinian was a powerful emperor of the eastern (Byzantine) empire. He also united both the eastern and western empire for a short period of time.**
 * 4) **The Roman (western) empire ended in 476 C.E. because the last emperor Augustus was killed by a barbarian. The Byzantine (eastern) empire ended in 1453 because they were conquered by the Turks.**
 * 5) **Rome's fall was caused by many things. There were economic issues, being a gap between rich and poor, and large estates becoming selfsuffienct. There were also military issues, being that armies both made and unmade emperor, and taht armies weren't always entirely loyal. There were political issues. Declining patriotism as well as the East/West peace. There are also social issues. There was a massive population decline, and a religous divisions.**
 * 6) **Three contributions that ancient Rome to history are: christianity, architecture, and also Roman law.**


 * Ancient Rome Wordle**


 * I believe that yes the United States and Rome are very much alike;however, I don't believe the United States is going down the same road as Rome. In many things they are the same, but not all.**