Ancient Rome

throughout our country originated from Ancient Rome. Some people actually call us thieves because of all the ideas and traits we have took from them. You may not notice it but we have based lots of behaviors on their culture. Ancient Rome is actually one of the closest civilizations that resemble the United States. From the little things like how we entertain ourselves to things as big as how we run our government, all are because from the Romans. Just like in Ancient Rome we find…

the Romans how to build arches and introduced the gladiator games to them. They also taught the Romans their way of divination, morals, religion, and introduced the Greek alphabet to them. The Etruscans are historically important because they made Rome a true city. 2. A Pyrrhic victory is a victory achieved at too great a cost. A famous Pyrrhic victory is one that was by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in battle in 279 B.C., but he had lost a great deal of his army. If…

Rome was a fascinating place with new types of art skills, beliefs and philosophies, languages, architecture, and contributions. The Romans spread an earlier type of floor art called mosaic. A mosaic is a picture made up of many small colored tile pieces or glass pieces. Roman art mainly focused on emotions, feelings, moods, and all sorts of imagination that the artist had visioned. Sculpting techniques from the Roman age were also a popular view to look at in modern times. The Romans…

Roman Empire was the Tiber River. The Tiber River ran from the peaks of the Apennine Mountains, through Rome, and finally ended off in the Tyrrhenian Sea making it the third longest river in the Italian Peninsula. This river also ran directly next to the capitol, Rome, providing a crucial water source for farming and drinking. Because of the vast amounts of water the Tiber River brought Rome, agriculture was improved drastically creating a surplus of available food. Another key feature of…

Ancient Rome has a rich history filled with art, architecture, religion, technological advances, and intellectual discoveries. To stay in power, Rome had to ward off those challenging their superiority. One of the most famous disputes was between Rome and Carthage which prompted The Punic Wars. The first war started in 264 BC and the third and final war ended in 146 BC. During the Second Punic War, a man named Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus led the Roman troops after his Patrician father…

Ancient Rome was a strong and growing Empire founded in 650 BC. Rome has many interesting features including their language and numeral system, their fascinating culture, and their extraordinary architecture. Ancient Rome’s official language was Latin, nowadays they speak Italian. Well as Rome spoke their language, they also developed an amazing numeral system called the Roman Numerals. As romannumerals.co.uk says “ the history of the numerals follows the history of ancient Rome itself, from…

wars that Rome fought in to gain their dominance. One war that Mackay talks about is the war that Rome fought against themselves between the military and the political systems. He brings the history of Rome to life by starting in the early stages of just a city in the Italian peninsula and ending with the fall of once the greatest empire in the world. Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History provides its readers with the history of Rome that is known and also with the history of Rome that…

When Julius Caesar rule the Ancient Rome, swords were commonly not used only in the army, but also by civilians to protect themselves. Which had lead to death of Caesar because senators bought daggers to the congress secretly. In addition, the civilized armor and weapons of the Roman army had lead to Pax Romana, which means “the success of the Rome”. Individual Roman soldiers bought weapons with their money and carried a variety of weapons for different circumstances. In hand to hand combat…

Rome started as a society of small farmers located in central Italy, placing it among other civilizations within the Mediterranean basin; Etruscans, Latins, Celts, and the most influential, the Ancient Greeks. In early years, Rome acquired many cultural characteristics from the Etruscan civilization, but as Rome expanded, it came into contact with the Greeks. Since then, Greek influence has become an important element in Roman life. However, it was the Roman civilization that came to rule and…

Roman mosaics were fairly common throughout the Roman Empire they could be found in public places and in the villas of the wealthy Romans. Roman mosaics are made of geometrical blocks called tesseare they are mostly blue, black, red, white, and yellow, assemble together to form a picture. They could be found at the entrances to homes, on the floors, or fountains as well in public places. People had them to show a sign of wealth and status, they were pleasing to the eye, and some depicted a scene…