Ancient Rome

Augustus forbade the soldiers from marrying until their 25 years' service was over. It is not sure why he did this. It is possible that it was because three legions which were destroyed in an attack in Germania had a large number of women, wives, girlfriends and prostitutes. It was said that the troops were concerned with rescuing these women, making their situation worse. Augustus was very upset by this defeat which ruined his plans in Germania. Soldiers were allowed to get married by Septimius Severus in 193 AD.

Works included: The Ara Pacis, The Mausoleum OS Augustus, Agrippa's Baths, The Forum Augustum, Temple to Mars Ultor, The Summi Viri, the Cloaca Maxima, all of Agrippa's aquaducts and the list goes on... The Pax Romana was a time in Rome where building was the key focus due to the new wealth that she had because of the relatively new empire.

If you wish to learn more about the public works that were built, especially during Augustus' reign which in my opinion was the most influential and fascinating period when looking at public works I would recommend:

http://www.amazon.co.UK/Augustan-Culture-Interpretive-Karl-Galinsky/dp/0691058903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309816560&sr=8-1

and

http://www.amazon.co.UK/Images-Augustus-Thomas-Spencer-Lectures/dp/0472081241/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309816578&sr=1-1

They are not comparable. They are centuries apart and the societies are totally different. Rome was ruled by two annually elected consuls who at the beginning of the republic were quite like kings and whose power was undefined and therefore unlimited. The consuls acted as executives, legislators, judges and military commanders. The senate was not an elected body. The assembly of the people and the assembly of the soldiers did not elect representatives. Citizens voted on legislation themselves in these assemblies. The assemblies also elected the consuls and acted as courts of appeal during most of the republican period. At the beginning the patrician aristocracy had virtual monopoly over politics and the offices of state. Over time, the leaders of the plebeian movement were given access to the offices of state and were co-opted into a patrician-plebeian oligarchy. The plebeian mass had its own plebeian council separate from the mentioned assemblies. This was because it was set up as a break-away body during a plebeian rebellion against the state. It was integrated by allowing the votes of this council (plebiscites) to become laws binding on all citizens, including the patricians. The leasers of this council, the plebeian tribunes, became the main legislators. Officers of state were elected and got on with their jobs within their remit without supervision by a central body like a cabinet or a president.

The legionaries were partly paid in grain which they would make into bread, that being the staple. Of course this was supplemented by foods gathered locally and flavoured with the ubiquitous liquamen (fish sauce).

The Roman's have many major achviements some include: roads, aqeducts, sanitation, irrigation, plumbing, weaponry, architecture, governement, and many more.

Rome won the second Punic War partly because she had firm allies, especially in Italy, who would not join Hannibal, and partly because Scipio was a better general and strategist than Hannibal.

he committed suicide because he killed his sister (which was a horrifying death because he got his sister pregnant when she was going to have the baby he cut her open took out the baby that killed the sister but then he killed the baby by choking her)

Correction. The above answer is confused with a story about the emperor Caligula, not Nero. Nero committed suicide after he realized that the revolt against him could not be stopped. Rather than face the disgrace of being flogged to death, he killed himself.

disciplines they got hit by the centurions , food deductions and less rationing these were minor punishments.

Corporal Punishments , CP , were also used as well the most common was being sentenced to a flogging in-front of the Century , Cohort or maybe even the Legionary in a bad case.

Other punishments included fines , added duty or -more seriously- loss of privileges they would earn if they served for a long period of time.

Rewards they got a pension and if they weren't a roman citizen they became one.

In order to participate in a chariot race one had to be a member of a team. Rome had four teams, the Reds, Whites, Blues and Greens. It's unclear as to exactly how many entries each team could have in a race, or if the various teams raced against each other in a single race or in a matchup.

The two leaders were called the counsuls and they held office for one year.

Retirement from the Roman army was not a matter of age, it was a matter of service. When a man's enlistment time was up he could either reenlist or retire. There was no actual age limit for reenlistment either. There is a record of a centurion who had retired, missed the army so much that he reenlisted and was still serving at the age of 80!

Tribunes of the plebs (or plebeians tribunes) was the name of the men chosen to represent the common people. This title was used by the Romans in order to differentiate him from the military tribune. Originally there were two such tribunes. They were then increased to four and, later, to ten.

Christ was born during the reign of Augustus.

Just a few of the most famous Roman structures are the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the temple of Venus and Rome, the Forum Romanum, the Aqueducts and of course, their roads.

The Colosseum was an important monument in Rome because it was where many of the games took place, such as, gladiatorial competitions, the hunts, mock naval battles, and many more. The Colosseum was also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre because it was constructed during the Flavian Dynasty. The emperor and first ruler under the Flavian Dynasty, Vespasian, was responsible for starting the construction in A.D 70 and in A.D. 80 the construction was completed under his son, the emperor Titus. It is said that once the Colossuem was completed games were held for one hundred consecutive days, in which time thousands of wild animals were killed. The Colosseum was able to accommodate up to 70,000 people and could be evacuated completely in less than 20 minutes if need be. Under the floor of the Colosseum gladiators were held before they fought and animals were kept. The Colosseum was equipped with a lever system and trap doors so that the wild animals could be lifted up to the main floor for the hunts and games.

Commodus was an emperor that spent too much money on Gladitoral Games.

Augustus became the first Roman emperor and begun the 506-year period of rule by emperors. The emperors were absolute rulers. He did this after he emerged as the last victor in the series of civil wars which tore the Roman republic apart and brought it down. He gained control of the Roman army and accumulated large sums of money through the spoils of war. He used these to establish his personal rule. He drastically reduced the size the army which had became too large as rival parties hired troops to fight the civil wars and put the army and the recruitment of soldiers under the control of the emperor. He created a military treasury so that the soldiers were paid by the emperor and the they would be loyal to the emperor (previously they were paid by the commanders who levied them). He created an imperial bureaucracy which was subordinate to him, tackled the problem of corruption and created a strong administration. Therefore, he established a strong central government which was capable to keep the empire under control. The republic had became inadequate to deal with imperial expansion and was unable to control the governors of the provinces of the empire. This laid the foundation for the 200-year period of relative political stability in the Roman Empire which historians call the Pax Romana (Roman Peace).

It depends on what king of building and its size and the type of material used. The Romans had many different type of buildings and they came in many different sizes. They also built in stone, bricks of (roman) concrete. Stone buildings took longer to construct.

The Trojan prince who allegedly founded Rome was Vergil's hero, Aeneas.

The Roman Peace, or Pax Romana, or Pax Augusta spanned approximately from 27 BC to 180 AD, or from the beginning of the reign of Augustus to the death of Marcus Aurelius. The death of Marcus Aurelius signaled the ascension of Commodus, Aurelius' son to the throne. Commodus was considered a raving madman and wars started up again.

Because he was fond of having a lictor recite Socrates while he sodomized his eunich slaves.

Well first of all they ate. There was always some sort of entertainment at a dinner party, but this depended on the taste of the host and his guests. If it were, for example, an intellectual, philosophy discussing affair, there would be background music and lots of conversation. If it were a more lively get together, there may be acrobats, dancers, jugglers, mimes, or even a mock gladiatorial bout. However, these were exceptional dinners, usually given for a special occasion. Most of them were just social occasions, giving the host a chance to show off his new table settings or his new cook. After the dinner, there would be games, such as the host would pick a number and the guests would have to have those number of drinks.

The Romans appointed many triumvirates, as it means a committee of three men. However the most famous of these is the first and second triumvirates. The first triumvirate consisted of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey. The second consisted of Octavian, Lepidus and Antonius.

The alphabet was first discovered by the Greek anthropologist, Pleny the Lesser, on his first expedition to the South Pole in 826 b.c. At first it was believed that the shapes he found etched into a rock face on what is now called the Isthmus of Good Tidings were created by the local flightless birds during their unique courtship rituals, however, it was soon realized that the etchings formed recurring sets of patterns with an underlying mathematical logic. Additionally, modern dating systems place the creation of these etchings at approximately 66 million years old, making them older than the earliest fossil records of the native bird species. It is now believed that these etchings were created by Hadrosaurids during the final epoch of their existence. Though the original meanings have never been deciphered, Humans have since adapted these symbols in a variety of ways for both artistic expression and record-keeping. sex