Imagine yourself, in bed sleeping. You are relaxed, and it is really quiet outside. But then, the quietness is broken by a huge blast. You look out the window and see Mount Vesuvius has erupted. You decide to stay in your building, thinking you will be protected, but you're not. The heat will soon get up to 250 celsius (482 fahrenheit) and ash will come down on the city. You will be killed, like everyone who is in Pompeii and neighboring cities. You won’t be discovered for over seventeen hundred years. Nobody knows that you are dead, and almost no one knows that you’ve even existed. That is what it was like for many people who were alive before the eruption of Pompeii.
History of Pompeii
Pompeii is an ancient city in Italy. There are a …show more content…
Mount Vesuvius was formed by two tectonic plates, the African and Eurasian, colliding. Mount Vesuvius has had a lot of eruptions, but the most famous, was in 79 AD. Since 79, there have been at least 30 eruptions between 172 and 1944. There have been no more eruptions since …show more content…
Although it is accepted that Mount Vesuvius erupted in August of 79, archeological digs have suggested that it erupted about three months later. We will probably never know for sure. A writer, Pliny the Younger, was across the bay when Mount Vesuvius erupted and was able to see it firsthand. Researchers used Pliny’s notes to find out about Pompeii. One of his writings said, “ cloud of unusual size and appearance to a pine tree that rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches.” This type of eruption today is called, Plinean eruption. Pliny also said, “Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee.” People who stayed behind, thinking it would be safer there, thought wrong. The conditions got worse. More ash fell, making it hard to breath, and buildings collapsed. It is thought that the intense heat that followed the ash is what caused the people to die. The next day, everyone was gone, buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash. When people came back to Pompeii to look for family or possessions, they found nothing but ash. Everything was buried deep beneath their feet. At least 2,000 people
History of Pompeii
Pompeii is an ancient city in Italy. There are a …show more content…
Mount Vesuvius was formed by two tectonic plates, the African and Eurasian, colliding. Mount Vesuvius has had a lot of eruptions, but the most famous, was in 79 AD. Since 79, there have been at least 30 eruptions between 172 and 1944. There have been no more eruptions since …show more content…
Although it is accepted that Mount Vesuvius erupted in August of 79, archeological digs have suggested that it erupted about three months later. We will probably never know for sure. A writer, Pliny the Younger, was across the bay when Mount Vesuvius erupted and was able to see it firsthand. Researchers used Pliny’s notes to find out about Pompeii. One of his writings said, “ cloud of unusual size and appearance to a pine tree that rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches.” This type of eruption today is called, Plinean eruption. Pliny also said, “Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee.” People who stayed behind, thinking it would be safer there, thought wrong. The conditions got worse. More ash fell, making it hard to breath, and buildings collapsed. It is thought that the intense heat that followed the ash is what caused the people to die. The next day, everyone was gone, buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash. When people came back to Pompeii to look for family or possessions, they found nothing but ash. Everything was buried deep beneath their feet. At least 2,000 people