Ancient Rome

They were built to commemorate emperors' victories in war. Their reliefs depicted themes such as battles, the defeat of enemies, the capture of prisoners and the triumphal return of the emperors.

The ancient Romans of all classes liked a sauce they called "garum" This was a spicy fermented fish sauce which could be flavored with various additives and it varied in price and quality. There was even Kosher garum, its containers being discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.

The types of jobs in ancient Rome were pretty much the same as our jobs today except without the modern technology. For example, if a ditch or hole had to be dug, the Romans used the "shovel and shoulder" method in place of a of modern "bobcat". Education then, as today, played an important role in determining what type of work a person could do. A well educated person could use his skills in math, writing or even in some aspects of farming to earn a living. The less educated could apprentice themselves to perhaps a butcher or an ironsmith and learn a trade. Even the poorly or non-educated could sign on as a hand on one of the many merchant ships that were coming and going. However, the free citizens of Rome were always in competition with slave labor, and unless he were lucky enough to have a small business, or a skill in some needed service, he had a difficult time finding work.

Roman education was of a private nature, in the sense that it was not state funded nor mandatory. Parents had to pay for their children's education. However, even the poor knew the value of being literate, so there were a surprising number of Romans who could at least read the advertising posters. The education of the lower classes was either given at home or in a group that met in a certain place. The education of the upper classes was given initially at home, by either a parent or slave, and then the student (male) could complete his eduction abroad in Greece, if he chose. This studying in Greece was generally rhetoric, which women did not pursue.

The Romans took up wrestling as a sport from the Greeks . This sport still exists and is called Greco-Roman wrestling.

Sports were not very important in Rome. They were much bigger thing among the Greeks. The Romans adopted the sport of the Greeks, but they did not reach the same importance as in Greece.

The Romans loved the gladiatorial contests and the Chariot races. These were the only two sports which were important. They were not adopted from the Greeks.

Which region did caesar annex to the roman state?

Lucius Brutus, one of the first counsuls, the Gracchi brothers, Sulla, Julius Caesar, Cato the Elder, Cicero and Augustus, there were many more, but these should do for starters.There were many who influenced the government over the long period of Roman history. Some of them are, Lucius Brutus, Appius Claudius, Marius, Sulla, Cicero, the Gracchii, Julius Caesar, and all the other previous dictators, Octavian/Augustus, both Cato the Elder and Cato the Younger, and Diocletian. The above is just a smattering of names, there were many more, some famous, some working quietly behind the scenes.

Today we write it out as XIX

But the Romans themselves would have probably wrote it out as XVIIII which can be simplified to IXX (-1+20=19)

The Roman Empire had many accomplishments. Many are still used today. Some accomplishments of the Roman Empire are laws that became legal systems of Latin America and Europe. They also created sculptures which resembled the people of Rome. The Romans created the Roman Numerals. They were masters at building the roads, bridges and aqueducts to carry water. For example the bridge called Ponte Milvio, was used by Roman soldiers marching off to war. Some of the famous buildings are the Temple of Vesta, the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Theater of Pompey, and the Arch of Titus. The Romans were the first to organize a controlled army. Thermae (public baths), flush toilets, indoor plumbing, and complex sewer systems were also some achievements of the Roman Builders. The Pont du Gard was another feat of Ancient Romans. The Appian Way was the first military highway, this was Rome's greatest accomplishments. Other accomplishments were arches, concrete, bridges, arched roofs, ceilings, and aqueducts. A highway system was also invented. Corvus was another Roman invention.

Table I. 1. If anyone summons a man before the magistrate, he must go. If the man summoned does not go, let the one summoning him call the bystanders to witness and then take him by force. 2. If he shirks or runs away, let the summoner lay hands on him. 3. If illness or old age is the hindrance, let the summoner provide a team. He need not provide a covered carriage with a pallet unless he chooses. 4. Let the protector of a landholder be a landholder; for one of the proletariat, let anyone that cares, be protector. 6-9. When the litigants settle their case by compromise, let the magistrate announce it. If they do not compromise, let them state each his own side of the case, in the comitium of the forum before noon. Afterwards let them talk it out together, while both are present. After noon, in case either party has failed to appear, let the magistrate pronounce judgment in favor of the one who is present. If both are present the trial may last until sunset but no later. Table II. 2. He whose witness has failed to appear may summon him by loud calls before his house every third day. Table III. 1. One who has confessed a debt, or against whom judgment has been pronounced, shall have thirty days to pay it in. After that forcible seizure of his person is allowed. The creditor shall bring him before the magistrate. Unless he pays the amount of the judgment or some one in the presence of the magistrate interferes in his behalf as protector the creditor so shall take him home and fasten him in stocks or fetters. He shall fasten him with not less than fifteen pounds of weight or, if he choose, with more. If the prisoner choose, he may furnish his own food. If he does not, the creditor must give him a pound of meal daily; if he choose he may give him more. 2. On the third market day let them divide his body among them. If they cut more or less than each one's share it shall be no crime. 3. Against a foreigner the right in property shall be valid forever. Table IV. 1. A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed. 2. If a father sell his son three times, the son shall be free from his father. 3. As a man has provided in his will in regard to his money and the care of his property, so let it be binding. If he has no heir and dies intestate, let the nearest agnate have the inheritance. If there is no agnate, let the members of his gens have the inheritance. 4. If one is mad but has no guardian, the power over him and his money shall belong to his agnates and the members of his gens. 5. A child born after ten months since the father's death will not be admitted into a legal inheritance. Table V. 1. Females should remain in guardianship even when they have attained their majority. Table VI. 1. When one makes a bond and a conveyance of property, as he has made formal declaration so let it be binding. 3. A beam that is built into a house or a vineyard trellis one may not take from its place. 5. Usucapio of movable things requires one year's possession for its completion; but usucapio of an estate and buildings two years. 6. Any woman who does not wish to be subjected in this manner to the hand of her husband should be absent three nights in succession every year, and so interrupt the usucapio of each year. Table VII. 1. Let them keep the road in order. If they have not paved it, a man may drive his team where he likes. 9. Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bend crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree. 10. A man might gather up fruit that was falling down onto another man's farm. Table VIII. 2. If one has maimed a limb and does not compromise with the injured person, let there be retaliation. If one has broken a bone of a freeman with his hand or with a cudgel, let him pay a penalty of three hundred coins If he has broken the bone of a slave, let him have one hundred and fifty coins. If one is guilty of insult, the penalty shall be twenty-five coins. 3. If one is slain while committing theft by night, he is rightly slain. 4. If a patron shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed. 5. If one shall permit himself to be summoned as a witness, or has been a weigher, if he does not give his testimony, let him be noted as dishonest and incapable of acting again as witness. 10. Any person who destroys by burning any building or heap of corn deposited alongside a house shall be bound, scourged, and put to death by burning at the stake provided that he has committed the said misdeed with malice aforethought; but if he shall have committed it by accident, that is, by negligence, it is ordained that he repair the damage or, if he be too poor to be competent for such punishment, he shall receive a lighter punishment. 12. If the theft has been done by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be held to be lawfully killed. 13. It is unlawful for a thief to be killed by day....unless he defends himself with a weapon; even though he has come with a weapon, unless he shall use the weapon and fight back, you shall not kill him. And even if he resists, first call out so that someone may hear and come up. 23. A person who had been found guilty of giving false witness shall be hurled down from the Tarpeian Rock. 26. No person shall hold meetings by night in the city. Table IX. 4. The penalty shall be capital for a judge or arbiter legally appointed who has been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision. 5. Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment. 6. Putting to death of any man, whosoever he might be unconvicted is forbidden. Table X. 1. None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city. 3. The women shall not tear their faces nor wail on account of the funeral. 5. If one obtains a crown himself, or if his chattel does so because of his honor and valor, if it is placed on his head, or the head of his parents, it shall be no crime. Table XI. 1. Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians. Table XII. 2. If a slave shall have committed theft or done damage with his master"s knowledge, the action for damages is in the slave's name. 5. Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.

The ancient Romans buried their dead either by internment or cremation, depending which method was in fashion at the time. The body was washed and dressed in the finest clothes the deceased owned in both methods. If the body was to be interred it would be put in a sarcophagus and sometimes mementos of his life would be added. The sarcophagus was sealed and carried in procession to the family tomb. If a person was to be cremated the body was also carried in procession to a prepared funeral pyre. The person's ashes were then gathered into an urn and placed in the family tomb. All burials were outside of the city.

An agricultural community was founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century B.C. The Roman Kingdom period: 753 B.C.-509 B.C. The Roman Republic period: 509 B.C.-27 B.C. The Roman Empire: 27 B.C.-A.D. 476

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The Romans have no influence in engineering because of the huge advances in technology. The Romans did use oil and there was no electricity. They did not have have combustion engines or electrical motors. Knowledge of how to make Roman concrete was lost and modern concrete is different from Roman concrete.

The Romans influenced European architecture, sculpture and painting until the early 20th century. They influenced the art of the Renaissance (14th-15th century) Baroque (17th-18th century) and Neoclassicism (18th-20th century, and is still sometimes used today). Palladian architecture was also based on Roman architecture. It was popular from the 17th century to the 20th century and was often used for public buildings. Latin literature was very influential in European literature until the mid-20th century.

The aqueducts gave them a clean water supply and it was technologically advanced water transport system. Roman engineers who built their roads and bridges and siege warfare weapons helped to build the Roman empire.

The Law of the Twelve Tables was the basis for Roman Republic law.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

Peace was vital to Rome's trade and stability. The second thing was the roads and sea lanes which were vital to trade and communication.

The young boy did nothing wrong. He did not have a chance because he never really ruled. It was his father Orestes who put him in the throne. In their brief reign there was nothing theycould do. The empire was bound to fall. It was the incompetence of the Theodosian and Valentinian dynasty who failed to stop the Visigoths, Vandals, Franks etc. from infiltrating the empire, but, to be frank, they never could do anything.

Yes, there were many rivers in the Roman territories. In fact, if you look at the map in your history book, you will see that the city of Rome is built on the banks of the Tiber river.

Boudica's husband ruled an independent kingdom who was an ally of the Romans. When he died he bequeathed the kingdom to his wife Boudica and his daughters. Ignoring his wishes, Rome annexed the kingdom, whipped Boudica and her daughters were raped.

Saturn was the god of agriculture, generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, renewal and liberation. In later times he was also the god of time.

Yes, he had one daughter, Claudia Augusta, who died as an infant.

there is none, but you might be thinking of an aqueduct.

Correction: there are many Roman "things" that start with Q. Here are some: quadra--a square, quadrans, a coin, quadrigae, a racing chariot, quaestor, a treasury official, qualus, as wicker basket, quercus, the military crown of oak leaves, and quirites, the formal connotation of Roman citizens. There are many more.