Roman civilization is an amazing one, because of this. Ordered by Emperor Vespasian, as a gift to his people, the Colosseum represents Roman society as a grand spectacle. I chose to reflect on the Colosseum because it is one of the
Since the excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum began, many sites have been uncovered and shown to reveal a glimpse into the past. In the city of Pompeii one of the most famous of the luxurious residences is the House of the Vettii, preserved like the rest of the Roman city by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The house is named for its owners, two successful freedmen: Aulus Vettius Conviva, and Aulus Vettius Restitutus. The House of the Vettii exhibits a number of features including many of frescoes, it provides detailed look into the transition that the city of Pompeii was undergoing in the mid-first century A.D. The House of the Vettii is located on a back street, opposite a bar.
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF A SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD In the year 79 AD, a mountain in Italy called Mount Vesuvius erupted, the eruption is one of the most catastrophic and famous of all time. Surrounding Roman cites; Pompeii and Herculaneum, which were two densely populated towns located in the Bay of Naples were obliterated by the eruption. It is not known how many people the eruption killed. LOCATION OF THE AREAS AFFECTED BY THE ERUPTON This map shows the cities surrounding Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis and Herculaneum which were all destroyed during the eruption. This map also shows the area of the smoke plume from the eruption.
Mineral wealth flowed out of Moroë and luxury goods in Arabia and India flowed in When Roman Empire thrived, trans-Saharan route revived as one of the most important trading routes connecting Africa and Eurasia. During the days of this era, Africa supplied Italy with gold and wild animals, and Rome supplied luxury goods and some of the techniques from scientific product to city-building. The major change of functioning of trans-Saharan route was brought about by the use of the domesticated camel and the development of camel saddle. some camel bones have been found recently in the Senegal valley helped archeologist assume that the use of camel dates back to 300 A.D. Guide by Berber, which have begun in trade between northern Africa and kingdom of Ghana in about 500 A.D also helped the route thrive, ensuring safe trade passage. [ Through this development, the usage of trans-Saharan routes increased, and enabled Eurasian people to contact more often with southern Africa.
Often involved in politics, these people were born into wealth were known to use money and power in Rome’s political system to benefit themselves. The patricians were very much the minority to the much larger, but considerably less powerful plebeian class. The plebes were essentially the common man. The farmers, the peasants, the servants, and the slaves of Rome, the plebeian class, while large in numbers had little voice and political influence suffering due to the advantages wielded by the patrician
Montesquieu’s philosophy was highly regarded and it had a massive contribution in the shaping of the US constitution. Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, was born on January 18, 1689, in La Brède, France, just outside of Bordeaux, to an aristocratic family with considerable wealth in landholdings. His mother, Marie Françoise de Pesnel who died when Charles de Secondat was seven, was a female inheritor of a large monetary inheritance who brought the title of barony of La Brède to the Secondat family. As a young man, he studied Latin, French, history, and the law before graduating from the University of Bordeaux in 1708. In 1715 he married Jeanne Lartigue, whose family brought him tremendous wealth, and a year later his uncle died leaving him with his title of Baron de la Brède and property making him immensely rich.
The detailed studyof the House of the Vestalsat Pompeii revealshow water features were central to the house's structural changes from the late first century B.C. The owners of the house invested heavilyin fountains and pools as key elements in the display of their wealth to visitors and alike. This article relates the structuraldevelpassers-by opment of the House of the Vestalsto the social history of decorativewater usage, from an initial investment exploiting the pressurizedwaterprovided by the new aqueduct early in the Augustan period to the responses to crises following the earthquake of A.D. 62. *
Roman Villas were typically owned by the rich people of a Roman city or town. There were different styles depending on the location of the villa; however these still had similar layouts and other similarities. Villas were commonly used as farms in the countryside which is where most of the owner’s money came from. Another use was during the summer period or hotter weather villas were seen as a get-away location to escape the heat of the city. BUILDING Roman Villas were typically built from rubble bonded with clay, limestone and timber.
The Great Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan and sent a thirty-three foot tsunami raging down the coast to devastate their towns even further. To make matters even worse, the earthquake also triggered a nuclear emergency that has been compared to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. (McCurry, 1) This earthquake was the worst earthquake in Japan’s recorded history. (McCurry, 1) It would not be surprising if people will still talk about it for centuries to come. The earthquake began off of the north-eastern coast of Honshu and caused catastrophic damage.
This is an analysis on what is known to be the largest earthquake and biggest tsunami ever to hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake and tsunami Japans coast lies in ruins after the earthquake hit followed by the tsunami picking up everything in its path like cars, houses, and warehouses. Seismometers, strain gages, and title gages records the disaster. P-waves travel at four miles a second and within seconds warnings flash across the country. The S-waves shake the ground making earthquakes so damaging and the reactor core is shut down (Kerger, 2011.