Ancient Rome

The Gracchus brothers were trying to limit the amount of land someone could own, and give public land to the poor. They did not succeed, but set a dangerous example for politicians in the future. Both were eventually killed (Tiberius was beaten to death with chairs, Gaius was forced to commit suicide).

Rome is in the Mediterranean and therefore has a Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summer and short, mild and wet winters.

in greek it was an oligarchy while in rome it was a patrician

An oligarchy is not a family. It is a political regime. It means power by the rich. The term oligarch used for rich Russian is figurative to indicate that i individual's immense wealth and influence.

A member of a rich and powerful family is just that: a member of a rich and powerful family.

In Rome both patricians and equites were rich and powerful.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

Ancient Rome had perhaps too many fora to count. There was the main forum, the Forum Romanum, which was the main civic enter and the heart of the empire. Then there were the fora of Augustus and Julius Caesar, which were also civic and religious centers. They had special fora for the selling of fish, cattle and vegetables. These were the big ones. a Forum (plural=fora) was a marketplace, so any neighborhood square could have a few merchants selling goods and be called a forum.

The look of Roman houses depended on wealth/poverty.

The poor lived on the upper floors of tenement blocks called insulae (singular, Insula, island) which were the least desirable because of the extra stairs and safety issues and, therefore, were cheaper to rent. The apartments on these floors were small and only had small rooms for sleeping. There was no running water, heating, cooking facilities or toilets. The poor went there only to sleep. During the day they and lived outdoors. They ate outdoors, went to outdoors public toilets, and went to the public baths. The insulae were up to six or seven floors. Despite height restrictions, some reached eight or nine floors. Originally they were built in timber and mud brick, later chap concrete was used. Fires and collapses were a common problem, made worse by the fact that they were often built cheaply by speculators. Fires could spread quickly because the insulae were densely packed, often separated only by alleys. After the Great Fire of Rome (64 AD) Nero ordered that the insulae were to be spaced out, built in brick, and faced by porticos on wide roads. Even so, they remained prone fires and collapses because of poor building quality.

The middle class lived on the lower floors of the insulae which were larger and more expensive and had running water. On the ground floor there were shops and workshops.

The detached houses of the rich were called domus and were divided into the areas. There was a public area centred on an atrium where the social life of the family took place and were guests were received. There was also a private area just for the family members, which was centred on a garden which was called peristyle, which was adopted from the greeks.

There was a vestibulum (vestibule) which was the main entrance hall which led to a large central hall (the atrium) which was the focal point of this aprt of the house. The atrium was open at the centre and was partly surrounded by a portico with high ceilings. It often has sparse furnishing to give a stronger feel of a large place. At the centre there was the compluvium, a square roof opening which let water in,, which was channelled inwards by an inwardly sloped tiled roof. The water was collected by the impluvium a shallow rectangular sunken portion in the centre of the atrium. It drained the water into an underground cistern which had sand to filter the water. The bedrooms of the family were on the sides of the atrium. At the sides of the bottom of the atrium there were the alae (wings) which were open spaces that extended this portion of the atrium to the sides of the house. Their purpose is unknown. At the bottom of the atrium there was the tablinium, which was the study of the head of the household. The side facing the atrium did not have a wall, and at the opposite side there was a passage to the peristyle. Therefore the study acted as a passageway between the atrium and the peristyle parts of the house. The head of the household was able to command the house visually from the tablinium. On both sides of the tablinium there were the fauces, which were like two corridors which also provided passages to the peristyle separate from the tablinium. The Triclinium was the dining room where guests reclined on three couches along three sides of a table to eat. It was at the bottom of the atrium, but separated from it by walls, and next to one of the fauces. It could be accessed either from the bottom of the atrium or the peristyle.

The peristyle (peristilum) was a garden surrounded by columns which supported a roofed portico which provided shade. It had flowers, shrubs, benches, statues, fountains and a fish pond. There were frescoes on the walls. In this area there was also the culina, the kitchen. It had no chimney; therefore it was filled with smoke. It was a dark and gloomy room. By the kitchen there was also the Posticum. This was the servants' entrance or the access to the servants' quarters. Family members sometimes used it to exit unobserved.

There mosaics on the floors, and sometime on the walls as well. The walls could also have frescoes.There was also Lararium, a shrine of the lares, the guardian gods of the household. This could be in the atrium, the peristyle or in a room of its own.

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

A wall in general is a "murus" in Latin. The walls of a town would e "moenia". The sacred wall surrounding the core of the city of Rome was called the "pomerium".

In the Republic a Roman citizen was anyone born into one of the 35 voting tribes. Citizenship was also granted to non-Romans in many instances, such as the Italians who gained citizenship after the social wars, and Julius Caesar granting citizenship to entire towns of non-Romans.

horses and wagons were especially used in the medieval times because they had no other automobile like transportation avilable to them keep in mind cars were first made in the 1800-1900's hope i help ;)

well, in my opinion they were outcasts because of the Jewsish rules. Nobody from today can say "oh yeah i know that coz i was there" can they?

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"Pax Romana" is Latin for "Roman peace," and the term refers to a period of time of no war and widespread prosperity throughout the Roman Empire. One thing that was essential to the Pax Romana was the establishment of a uniform legal code throughout the empire. This made it easier to follow and enforce laws.

Romans develop by putting their taxes high. by putting their taxes high they used the money by helping their country, by putting aqueducts and more roads for health and movement.

There are several differences between ancient Greece and ancient Rome, though many often misconstrue them for being one and the same. They are both Mediterranean countries, but they differed in terms of their values, social hierarchy, and mythologies. In fact, they actually thrived at different times. Ancient Greece came first, flourishing during the fifth century B.C., and Rome became bigger hundreds of years after.

Men became gladiators mainly because they were forced to. Some were prisoners of war who were considered unfit for any other service, some were slaves sold to the gladiatorial schools, and some were free men who were debtors and became gladiators as the only way they could earn money.

Yes, they would have had lettuce, cucumber but not carrots or tomatoes.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The first Roman emperor that we definitely know was not nobility was Vespasian. However, there's a possibility that Vitellius who came before him, was the first, as there is a question about his ancestry.

The wealthier Romans were able to afford the more luxurious fabrics for their clothing. For example, the wealthy could have soft fine wool for his tunics, while the poorer person had to settle for the coarser, maybe itchier wool. The wealthy could afford silks and linens and in the later part of the empire, cotton, while these fabrics were out of reach of the poor. The rich women could (and did) embellish their clothing with jewelry, while the poor woman was lucky if she had a cheap jeweled hairpin. The leather for a wealthy person's footwear was tanned and of a better quality than a poor person's and the wealthy could easily afford to have the fabrics for their clothing dyed with the more expensive dyes which could give them colors anywhere from pale pastels to the deep, almost iridescent purplish red the Roman senators wore. The poor, were mostly confined to the red and yellow dyes and mixtures of the colors they could produce because red and yellow were the cheapest dyes.

Nero changed Rome by rebuilding it in a safe way after the fire of 64. He decreed that the streets be a certain width and the houses be made of a more fireproof material with wide porches across the front in order to make any future firefighting easier. After the fire, he built his famous Golden House, the massive complex of buildings and parks that the Nero-bashing writers, both ancient and some modern, like to say was his private residence. However it is also stated by the ancient writers that although Nero had a large private house with the innovative revolving dining room, most of the parks and lakes and gardens were open to the public. He brought the country into the city and allowed the urban poor to enjoy them. He also gave Rome the first of the imperial baths, which emperors after him continued to copy.

we will never know, but she must have seemed a complete mad woman to them

Roman shops sold just about everything and anything. (Electronic equipment excluded) People could not only buy food and fabric for clothing, but jewelry, both cheap and expensive, fine furniture, ready made small busts of the current hero, pet birds, herbs, medical compounds, books, musical instruments, and waterclocks. Just about everything from pottery to pets was sold in Rome. People could also contract for services, such as having something built or installed, a custom sculpture or fresco, or a mosaic floor. They could buy slaves or contract to rent their services. Whatever they needed for daily life was available.

The social organization of ancient Rome followed the class system with a plus. There were the patricians, plebeians, equites, proletariat, freedmen, slaves and foreigners. In addition to these broad social classes, there were the various social guilds or societies which were made up of people who did the same type of work. The political organization was rigid, the cursus honorum had to be followed in order for a man to move up the political ladder. This consisted of some military service, the optional office of aedile, the office of quaestor, then praetor, and finally consul. On occasion a man was appointed a censor.

he rejected the roman legacy in his rule of Gaul

There is no historical proof that the Roman soldiers wore red or any other color for that matter. Hollywood likes to dress their version of a Roman soldier in red because it makes for a more dramatic showing on the screen. In reality, though, red may have been worn and as for parades, white may have been worn. This is speculation, as nothing authentic has come down to us in writing and the paint has long since faded from the statuary of Roman soldiers.

The Anglo-Saxons were pagan and the Romans were Christian.

In most cases, gladiators faced injury or death at the hands of their fellow gladiators, against whom they fought. In some cases, however, gladiators fought various wild animals, instead of other gladiators. The animals (such as lions) could also injure or kill gladiators. In general, the life of a gladiator was very uncertain.

A few of the important emperors in ancient Rome were Augustus, the first emperor starting in 27BC and ending in 14AD. He founded the Roman Empire and was the adoptive son of Julius Caesar who was the Dictator before the Empire was founded.

Other important early Emperors included Tiberius who was emperor from 14AD - 37AD, Caligula from 37AD until 41AD, Claudius 41AD to 54AD, and Nero 54AD to 68AD. Many other legitimate emperors, and those who claimed to be, followed these early leaders.

As mentioned above, before there was a Roman Empire and Emperors, there were many leaders who were Dictators and/or Consuls. Some of these other well known leaders in Roman history include Julius Caesar, a war hero, who was given command from 49BC until 44BC (when he was assassinated on the Ides of March.) Mark Antony, a politician and general, was named as his 2nd in command; he had many accomplishments in war and was also the legendary lover of Cleopatra.

There were many more leaders/Dictators with the title of Caesar who were also well known in history, including Caesar Marcus Aurelius the 16th emperor from 161 - 180AD.