They did, at least the smart ones got out while the getting was good. The eruption was not a sudden unexpected event. There had been warning signs for weeks before the big blast. The ones that remained were the ones who for some reason could not leave or they were simply the type of people who ignored good advise. Proof of the evacuation of the majority of people is in the comparatively low number of bodies found for a town of Pompeii's size.
The one's with all the money.
Yes, many if all of the citizens in Pompeii would of been killed. Not enough to have a significant impact on the whole population however
He didnt. its all in your head.
It is true because that's all Pliny did at the time. He addressed to the citizens of Pompeii
Andreas Solope III...We don't know who founded Pompeii. All we know is that Pompeii was founded by a group of Oscan speaking people.
no-one knows
All of it.
Nothing, except collect taxes from Pompeii as well as all the other towns in the area. There was no special relationship, either good or bad, between Caligula and Pompeii.
People traded all sorts of things. Basically everything they made in Pompeii got traded and everything made other places came to Pompeii it was a wonderful center of trade thanks to the Bay of Naples. Pompeii had many merchants selling clothes foods decorations all the normal stuff of today and you would buy all those things from the merchants which traded Pompeii goods for the stuff there selling. :)
People traded all sorts of things. Basically everything they made in Pompeii got traded and everything made other places came to Pompeii it was a wonderful center of trade thanks to the Bay of Naples. Pompeii had many merchants selling clothes foods decorations all the normal stuff of today and you would buy all those things from the merchants which traded Pompeii goods for the stuff there selling. :)
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I've been and it didn't seem like it was at all.