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do not live in a society where physical activity or food consumption is regulated by the State as it was in Sparta. This makes food consumption and physical activity a personal choice for Americans; this was not the case in Sparta. Xenophone and Plutarch wrote about Lycurgus and the laws that he created for Sparta that made Spartans the superior society that it…

1-09-17/ Period 1st 2 Page Essay World History Mrs.Pauli dictator for life. Although in the past Roman leaders had become dictators in times of crisis, no one had taken this much power. Rumors began to spread that Caesar planned to make himself king. Plutarch wrote: “What made Caesar hated was his passion king.” Caesar denied these charges but the Roman people, who had a strong dislike of the kingship system, began to worry about the way Caesar made all the decisions. Even his friends complained…

Technology had a big impact on the Roman empire, and the Han dynasty, because it was used every day to make jobs easier and more efficient. For example, from document 1 was all for technology, because it’s concerning flood prevention, which ruins crops, homes, and people. They ordered inspection of wells, and walls, in the cities and suburbs, which are all examples of technology. More examples of for technology include Huan Guan’s, “Discourses on Salt and Iron”. Workers were allowed to do…

Marcus Antonius and his Actions against Rome Following Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C.E., Mark Antony assumed his position of authority in the state of Rome. However, in the same year Gaius Octavius, the chosen heir and grandnephew of Caesar, complicated Antony’s plan to obtain and hold the power in Rome. Gaius Octavius, or Octavian, came to Rome after hearing the news of Caesar’s death, as he was left an inheritance from Caesar and came to receive it. Competition with Antony for the…

Seeing is a distant way of learning and exchanging with communicating. Moreover, seeing is a way to empower an individual to describe to the environment. In the article “ Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, he states that “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak”(145). Every one of us sees things differently because stationary and individual can be different. An opinion can never make settlement because there are stand together between the words used and the…

work hard to escape. In Jacob Riis's “Genesis Of The Tenement” he exposes many of the harsh conditions that the immigrants endured through the use of Child mortality rates, Photos of tenements/jobs, and an excerpt speaking on the conditions. As Plutarch a greek historian once said “An imbalance between the rich and the poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics” which is exactly what the state of New York had become. There were such a huge influx of european immigrants who…

Of all the civilizations in history, there is perhaps none as influential (to the Western world at least) as that of Rome. From its earliest roots as a small kingdom, through its era as a republic, to the dominance and decline of its empire, the Roman civilization stood for over two millennia, nearly half of recorded history. Since its fall, countless nations attempted to emulate Rome, attempting to recapture even a hint of its former glory. It can be argued, however, that of all these imitators…

Olympias his mother told Alexander that his was a virgin birth as she had conceived by Zeus himself. This was one of the many reasons that he called himself the son of Zeus, and claimed the status of a demigod. According to the scholar Plutarch, his birth happened amists great signs and wonders, such as a bright star gleaming over Macedonia the night and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at…

Producing a History: A Case Study of the Alexander the Great Wikipedia Article Trouillot believes in analyzing the narrative, or history being told, to see how it works and under what conditions it was created, to understand the powers at play and what narratives are being silenced. In the Alexander the Great Wikipedia page, a narrative is being told, and according to Trouillot, rather than define what the history is by coming at it directly (which will only yield frustrating results), we…