If I given a chance to explore, I like to explore Rome. I want to know what was the ancient Rome like? How did people live? What was their education like? What kind of religion did most people practice? We know about gladiator and have a some what idea of they wore. We have all seen The Archietecture and statues, so it's not really that hard to get a general picture of what is was like, but how did everything lead up to all the beautiful and wonderful things Rome has to offer?
First of all, I choose Rome for my exploration because Rome such a great place, it has beautiful archietecture and art like the Esquiline, Palatine, and the Quirinal were the first to have cities that were in a small community which has a wall built around it. There were four sections that divided up the community called Surana, Esquilina, Collina and Palatina. The wall that was around the cities was almost five and a half miles long in which King Servius Tullius had build for security reasons. After more land was cleared wooden houses were replaced by brick and tile houses.
Secondly, the reason I want to have exploration in Rome because I want to know more about how people live after the Punic War as we know. After the first Punic War the roman life style changes a lot. Since the War was with the North Africans lots of Romans got to see the archietecture of Greece, which inspired most of the roman archietecture.
Third, Rome also has a very interesting history that I know, so I want to know more deeply about history of Rome. Such as, all of this amazing history comes from the seven hills which were the starting point that we know as Rome. The name of the hills were the Capitol, Palatine, Caelin, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal, and the Avenitine.
Last but not least, what was education like? When you think of school, you think of all the work, being there all day, cafeteria food but the life for an ancient roman child was much different. Most schools were one male teacher, one room just like a shop on the street and usually closed off with a curtain. After the kids finished thier work in morning, they got to go home for lunch. After lunch all kids go back to school and their teacher will reada to them than it's over. Teacher were paid as much as or less than manual workers. A teacher that had thirty kids got paid fifteen denarii a month or one hundred denarii a year which is not that much because an avarage you would need two hundred and fifty denarii a year to support you and a wife.
Lastly, I wanna to explore more abour The Success of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire, before Christianity was a polytheistic culture. There were many Gods and Goddesses that were worshiped for different reasons. Even small communities within the Roman Empire recognized their own deities along with the more popular Gods and Goddesses. As time progressed, Roman Emperors were soon included with the polytheistic worship. Jilius Caesar himself claimed to be a descendant of Venus the sun god. Because Caesar was so popular, the idea of worshiping Emprors grew and was followed after his death. The Romans could worship Jupiter one day and Apollo the next with no conflict. The Romans felt, just as most followers of any religion, that by worshiping the gods and goddesses they kept threats aat bay; such as natural disasters a harvest from failing, famine or a widespread sickness. They worsshiped to pervent bad thing from happening, so in essence they worhiped out of fear.
As a conclusion, I want to explore Rome because want to learn more about history or anything else that have in Rome.
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