Ancient Rome

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…

After the age of the First Civilizations, Rome, along with China and others, started into a new era of second- and third-wave civilizations. As the Roman population grew rapidly in numbers, so did the city itself expand with new technological innovations and advancements. Rome went from being a city-state to an empire over the course of about 500 years, before the current era, as technological advances grew with the Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and further into the future.…

farmers putting them all into and provides service to Rome. These small farms replaced to an oversized estate known as latifundial that the farms merely grew wheat for survivals. This estate development, Latifundias created crops and every one different like sheep and others purchasable on the market. This method impacts Rome that has now not grown their own farm product like Olives and grapes were big on these massive estates. Therefore, Rome had to import farm product like wheat from Sicily…

As Rome and Greece were set in prolific time periods, they were powerful and cultured nations. While the similarities between Greece and Rome are numerous, there are a differences that have decisively occurred. Their government, religion, philosophy, sculpture, literature, architecture, and women’s influence were essential to the whole of their society and humanities. Government is critical in every society to bring order, stability, and progress. In Rome, the community was governed by…

Rome—one of history's greatest civilizations; a boundless empire that controlled the areas from Britannia to Asia Minor. Along with its colossal size, the Roman Empire housed an umpteen amount of perspicacious inventors and architects. Rome, Italy holds numerous of the world's greatest architectural creations and monuments, like the Pantheon, for instance. The Pantheon was constructed by Marcus Agrippa in 25 BCE, but a fire burned the building down in 80CE; Domitian reconstructed the edifice,…

1. A common theme in entertainment in Ancient Rome was violence. From the fights to the sacrifices, violence occurs in almost every activity/event. This shows the Roman society to be violent by nature and that they put their morals aside for entertainment purposes. Violence was associated with both victory and honor and that most likely is one reason that encouraged this violent nature. 2.Entertainment was so important in Rome because it was believed to be a good way to keep the people happy…

My top three reasons to go to Rome were: number one understand the reasons for their gods and goddesses, number two learn how they made buildings that are still standing today and number 3 is to see what was happening or did happen and how it really went down, but that doesn’t come till…

full of wonder and more advanced than most in that age. I find Ancient Rome to be among the top choices of where to go. Essentially, “Rome was the superpower of the ancient world” (Roman Life). They had everything. Running water? Try an aqueduct (Roman Life). Indoor plumbing? No problem with the sewage system they had (Roman Life). Don’t want to cook? No need, most people got take out on the way home anyways (Daily Life in Ancient Rome). Now to fit in, what would we be wearing? You’re probably…