Ancient Rome

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For entertainment, there were two theaters, a sports field or Palaestra, and an amphitheater. For the theaters, one was an open-air theater that held up to five thousand people, and the other was a roofed, smaller theater that was used for shows or concerts. The amphitheater was for entertainment through violence (e.g. gladiatorial combats and wild animal hunts), and could hold every citizen and inhabitant of Pompeii, as well as visitors from nearby towns.

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At first the Romans were cordial; and they actually became party to a military treaty with Judea (Talmud, Avodah Zara 9a). A couple of decades later, however, they unilaterally abrogated the treaty, and placed Roman governors over the land who afflicted the Jews with crushing taxation (Talmud, Yoma 9a). They later destroyed the Second Temple. While the Romans were usually only interested in taxation and didn't otherwise interfere too much in the internal affairs of their colonies, they always kept a sharp eye against signs of revolt anywhere, which could spread and destabilize all their colonies, as came close to happening during the Bar Kokhba revolt.

The Jews looked upon the Romans as ignorant idolaters and unwanted oppressors and didn't always maintain the level of docility that the Romans expected, especially when things erupted into the brief periods of Jewish revolt. This caused the Romans to distrust them.

Rome is on the Italian peninsula. Greece is somewhat farther east. Both are in the Mediterranean Sea.

Most peoples through the ages have believed that there is more than a single nature to the divine. Whether one calls them Angels, Gods, Spirits, Kami, Djinn or Deva. The Romans were not unusual in this.

The Roman religion is representative of Indo-European religions of the time in viewing the Gods as a reigning family of superior beings. Beings that were worthy of respect and worship (for the boons they could supply), but not omnipotent or perfectly good.

thye wer defnitlie monotheitsci cuz they liikd multpile gods!@!!

emphasis on the human forms

they created roads arctiechture arts and leisure which we also use today

Rome impacts Western culture in so many ways that it would be difficult if not impossible to cover them all; our government, our law, our economy, our entertainment, our architecture, our outlook on life. We have more in common with the Romans than any other ancient people.

The Romans reclined on their left side when attending/hosting a formal dinner for two reasons. The first was that they thought that the reclining position aided digestion. The second reason was that due to the horseshoe table arrangements, a diner had a better opportunity to see and speak with other diners around the tables.

The Romans felt that children were precious, but their adoration was twisted because of their glorification of sex. It was common practice for older men to have sex with boys, because it was somehow seen as beautiful.

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When the Romans emerged as an empire, their religion was basically Greek Pagan, with the names changed (e.g. Zeus became Jupiter). When Rome moved from a republic to an empire, the requirement to worship Caesar became normal. Caesar was considered to be the son of a god and had to be worshipped accordingly. Finally, under Constantine, the Romans turned to Christianity. When the Roman Empire split (causing the Byzentine Empire and the Fall of Rome), the Christian chruch split to the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. This is a pretty simplified answer.

The Romans may not have been the first to think of using an aqueduct, but they were the first people to create in and use it in their architecture.

Nero did not seek to fight any wars. However, he had to deal with the Great Revolt of the Jews. He sent Vespasian to Judea to suppress it . When Nero died Galilee and most of Judea had been subdued, but Jerusalem was still holding out.

Roman servants were slaves and lived in slave quarters behind the master's house. These were like little cells with a bed. I have seen some of these rooms in Pompeii and they were very simple without doors.

There were a few different early versions of the modern flush toilet, but one of the most notable was made by Thomas Crapper in England during the 19th century.

Jesus spent 40 days and 40 nights fasting in the desert. He did not go there to pray for god to deliver the Jews from the Romans. During that time Satan tried to tempt him.

Like all other male citizens, the patricians wore woollen togas whose colour was the off white. of undyed wool. Under the toga, Roman men wore a tunic and often wore it without the cumbersome toga. The tunic was often made of linen. The patricians who were senators wore the tunica lacticlavia, a tunic with broad purple stripes over the shoulders.

Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (509 BC), and Ephialtes (462 BC) all contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Historians differ on which of them was responsible for which institutions, and which of them most represented a truly democratic movement. It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes' constitution relatively peacefully. Hipparchus, the brother of the tyrant Hippias, was killed by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who were subsequently honored by the Athenians for their alleged restoration of Athenian freedom.

The greatest and longest-lasting democratic leader was Pericles; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy

I think it depends on what was the objective of the fight. Was it a battle to be re-enacted. Was it meant to last longer? Some were short and some were long and drawn out depending on who was fighting. Was the battle one on one, two on one? A fight fought by equals or one fought where one gladiator had the clear advantage. Some deaths were quick, some death's were slow....Kinda like wrestling today. Anything to please the crowd. Sometimes the crowd wanted a quick and bloody death, sometime they wanted a slow drawn out mutilated death is my guess.

The patricians were the aristocracy of Rome. During the Early Roman Republic they monopolised power by monopolising the offices of state and the seats of the senate. When access to the offices of state and the senate was opened to rich plebeians the patricians remained a very substantial share of these offices and the seats of the senate.

Constantine the Great designated Byzantium as his imperial capital, redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople (City of Constantine). Contrary from it is sometimes though, he did not move the capital from Rome. Rome had already ceased to be the imperial capital under Constantine's predecessor, Diocletian, who designated Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey, not far from Byzantium) as the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part of the empire.

the Romans where the first to live their but lots more came after them. this started many wars against Rome and other city's/towns