Roman Civilization
Ancient Rome was a small agricultural city on the Italian peninsula in 10 B.C.E., and became the largest empire of the ancient world. Most of Rome's, arts,religion,literature,and culture is mostly inherited from Greece. There is an ancient myth to the founding of Rome, and there are many variances to the story, but the most logical one is, that around 750 B.C. two twin brothers were born by Rhea Silvia after she was raped by Mars. What happened to the twin brothers? What were there names, and what role did they play in the founding of Rome?
Roman Architecture And Art
Rome has some extraordinary architectural structures, such as the ancient Roman Colosseum. What do you find fascinating about this, and what date was the Colosseum built? The Romans did not have the technology and tools and machinery like we have today. I always wondered how they could build such massive and unique structures. Romans Believed heavily in team work, and that was the driving force that made there lives possible. How do you think they accomplished such tasks? Below is a short video on the making and design of the Roman Colosseum.
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Richard Cottrell
I, without a doubt, find the peak of roman society and the way they lived one of the most interesting times in human history. The hedonistic lifestyle and arrogance the Roman's lived with was ultimately their downfall but one can't help but compare it to our lives as Americans now. From the coloseum and our modern day football games to the self indulgent no limit lifestyle we are also living and seeing crumble in front of us today. The parallels are rather uncanny and, to be honest, scary. History has and does repeat itself, I'm sure 2 thousand years from now people look back at us the same way we do the romans today.
ReplyDeleteI wish that you would have went into more detail about how Rome came to be. My favorite part about learning about Rome was about the games in the coloseum. Even though they were gruesome and disusting, it was a pretty creative Idea. We had stadiums before they were even called stadiums and the Roman Coloseum was very high tech than an average stadium. This coloseum was able to flood the grounds and have naval battles how amazing is that??! You can't flood the Raymond James Stadium and have an olympic swim meet. I love your guys page and am quite jealous. The blog was enjoyable I just wish you would have went into a little bit more detail about Rome. -Brandy Smith
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine must it have been like building any sort of large structure throughout history. We really don’t have to do that kind of back breaking work any longer (for the most part) thanks to the invention of hydraulic machinery and other pieces of heavy equipment like the crane. We can get large, colosseum-like construction projects completed in a fraction of the time it would have taken the ancient Romans to have done the same work. Having to manually put together each and every single piece of such a colossal structure is just an amazing thought. When people throughout history have truly put their minds to something, they got it done no matter what obstacles may have stood in their way. Thankfully we no longer have to use slave, or other sorts of manual labor to haul huge pieces of material. Machines have taken over the heavy lifting and moving now.
ReplyDeleteSeven chapters into the semester and I find the Roman Civilization the most fascinating. Their ability to construct such a massive, impressive Colosseum without any modern day technology or equipment fascinates me. I have always been intrigued by Rome's history and have always known they conducted battles at the Colosseum but NEVER realized they were able to fill the arena with water!! Interesting video give me a mental image of how it was built. Definitely on the top ten places to visit on my bucket list!!
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