Campania

Italy and Greece 2015 When travelling to another country you never really know what to expect. When I was traveling to Italy and Greece I learned that I get homesick easily and that I’m one to really live in the moment. Also with being in a different country with people I didn’t know that well, I learned that I need someone who’s responsible when it comes to being a roommate. It was the morning of June 25th 2015, the day I left for my two-week trip to Italy and Greece I was all packed up and ready to leave home. It was about ten in the morning when my mom and I packed my suitcase and backpack into the car and I said goodbye to my siblings, Leila, whose four, Jake, whose three and Delaney and Brooklynn who are two and to my stepdad also and then we were off to Horlick. Since I live so close to school it didn’t take us very long to get there, when we pulled up into the parking lot we saw the big charter bus that was going to take us down to O’Hare in Chicago to. We took a big group picture put all of our suitcases on the bus, said our goodbyes and we were on the road by ten thirty. Sitting on the bus I was very scared to be in a different country with a big group of people who I didn’t know all that well. Also, I was very anxious to know who I was rooming with each time we changed cities and such, I wasn’t one to like everyone that was on the trip. Of course I knew the teachers who were chaperones like my swim coach Patzwald, and my sophomore world history teacher Mrs. Sett,…

PEOPLE LOVE PIZZA BECAUSE… Have you ever wondered why pizza is so loved all over the world by billions of people? It is technically a very difficult to know as to why everyone really love pizza. One of the major reasons is probably the fact that it is versatile, because you can literally put anything on a pizza, you can put any type of food for your toppings. There are pizza places where they put chocolate instead of tomato sauce, and fruits instead of cheese or meat. It would also depend on a…

People making the dessert flan dates all the way back to ancient Roman times. It was a custard made from mixing cream and eggs to make a custard. The Romans made types of flan that we might find interesting, like eel flan. Other types of flan was sweet flan flavored with honey. The word flan is from Latin, “flado”, meaning a flat cake. Which then became “flaon” in Old French. In Spain, Flan is a custard made with caramelized sugar, which gives it a sweet taste. While the Moors made flan flavored…

In the beginning there... was… pizza. Biblical references aside pizza is truly a piece of both foreign and ancient art we, as English speakers, call “food”. To obtain even the most primary of ingredients you except you any person speaks the word pizza, a vast array of events must of occurred. I am talking about food items like tomatoes, which are normally used in the sauce in pizza, cheese, the overall topping used to cover the pizza itself and the flat bread, the very basis of all pizza. The…

The most impressive archaeological find in Campania, was Pompeii . It was a archaeological preserved city due to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, which preserved both the inhabitants and their city. Here archaeological evidence is abundant. This evidence tells its own story about the city and in turn reveals the Roman culture and influences were present. The Romans didn’t arrive until 80BC, and at this time Sulla proceeded to colonize Pompeii . Tension between the locals and the colonist grew and…

Introduction This essay will examine the different ways in which Roman culture is detectable archaeological throughout the landscapes of both Campania and Etruria. Through the different archaeological, techniques epigraphy, ground surveys, Roman architecture and excavation we will discover that Roman empire was busying itself and expanding it influence. For this discussion, one will look at Pompeii in Campania, Cosa in South Etruria and Volaterrae in North Etruria and will find that there is a…

Over the centuries, the city was abandoned and forgotten as the memory of Pompeii became nothing but a legend passed throughout generations by word of mouth. Despite the fact that the ancient objects from Pompeii were discovered sporadically, the city itself was not found until the 18th century. Ever since, excavations have gone deeper into the city’s mysterious secrets. Archaeological finds reveal how people lived during that time, as well as how they died during the…

Have you ever thought about The Lost City of Pompeii? Well, lucky for you, I did some research on the place and gathered some pretty interesting facts and theories about Pompeii. It is located in Italy's Campania Region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples. The city of Pompeii was completely demolished by a volcano by the name of “Mount Vesuvius” in 79 A.D. Therefore, it destroyed almost the entire city. But this gives the archaeologists a chance to look at what's left and draw…

Immigration has become the base of our country and without it, we wouldn’t be the same. Both Italy and America had their strengths and weaknesses that changed the minds of many to come to America. Italy during this peak of immigration was very unsteady, and not many people had hope for their future. They had a legacy of violence, social chaos, overpopulation, and widespread poverty due to internal strife. Southern Italians were known to have lived the hardest life. Many Italian immigrants came…

There were some Indo-European people during the late bronze age. These people arrived and lived in Italy known as the Latium people. Around hilltop areas, Latium people built earthen ramparts and these ramparts grew to become an oppida of early Latium and the fortified towns. These are territories within the Alban Hills. These territories were bounded by countries Samnium, Sabina, Etruria and Campania. However, there was unification of the Sabines with Latins on neighboring hills. Later,…