instructional graphic is included with this lesson guide. It may be enlarged and used to create transparencies or copies. • PEOPLE‚ PLACES‚ AND THINGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE SUMMARY The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered by volcanic ash and mud. These cities lay buried for over 1600 years before their excavation revealed a picture of everyday life of civilization in the Roman Empire. The remains of the Roman Empire may be found on three continents. The Romans built cities in the lands they conquered
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HISTORY PROJECT NAME: POMPEII AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania‚ in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. The archaeological digs at the site extend to the street level of the 79 AD volcanic event; deeper digs in older parts of Pompeii and core samples of nearby drillings have exposed
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around it and archaeological excavations at Akrotiri‚ have revealed a realistic pattern to the final times of Thera. Other Evidence When the archaeologists excavated Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy they uncovered a large Roman town which had been covered by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The area had also experienced earthquakes before the major eruption. Pompeii was many times larger than Akrotiri but one important part of the finds at Pompeii was the body remains. There have
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receive much tourist attention during Don Julian’s lifetime‚ it has become a well-known attraction since then. International television crews have filmed there several times‚ including one show that claimed to find proof the island is haunted. Pompeii‚ Italy Pompeii was an ancient Roman town near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Founded in the seventh or sixth century BC‚ the town was destroyed and buried under up to 20 feet of ash and pumice
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Now this is a story all about how two volcanoes erupted and destroyed three towns. This will take a while so just sit right there while I tell you all about the blast and the ash-filled air. On the west coast of Italy sat Pompeii‚ when August 24 advanced their way. No one was prepared for what happened that day. When the blast occurred‚ they all began to pray. When the sky began to fall‚ most of them tried to flee‚ but some of the others thought differently. The ones that remained were killed almost
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Did you know that before 79 AD there wasn’t a name for volcano? Well thanks to the huge eruption in Pompeii a name was created‚Οὐεσούιος. This is because no one in their area was experiencing volcanic eruptions. Therefore‚ when the Volcano called Mt. Vesuvius was showing signs of eruption‚ the people didn’t know because no one was alive to see or be around for the last eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Pompeii’s volcano Mt. Vesuvius showed many signs of eruption‚ but no one knew it was going to erupt
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Compare and contrast two Pompeian houses. What do they each tell us about the status of their owners? Within Pompeii‚ the size and decorative aspects of someone’s home explained a lot about their monetary wealth and what sort of social status they upheld. People who had money and good social status would decorate their homes with High Greek culture for example myths and mosaics of Greek heroes. Whereas people from a lower class‚ tended to use less grandeur within the decorative style of their
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University of Phoenix Material Week 2 Overview Ancient Greece and Rome Ancient Greece and Rome holds the emergence of philosophy and theatre‚ music and dance‚ as well as‚ the vision that created a classic style of architecture that endures today and the construction of buildings such as the Acropolis in Greece and the Coliseum in Rome. Travelers arrive daily from all over the world to view the ruins of these ancient structures in the hopes of gaining an understanding of the creative mind of
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Vesuvius. The economy of the cities of Vesuvius was small and commonly restricted to being local. The textile industry along with bakeries‚ vineyards‚ farms and the fishing industry all played part in the thriving commercial activity present at Pompeii and partly at Herculaneum‚ despite the fact that Herculaneum was primarily a fishing village‚ with little evidence of major craft manufacturing. It is widely accepted that agriculture dominated the economy‚ which is further endorsed by statements
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of modern eroticism arose from the imagery of Ancient Greece and Rome. Art was most commonly found in the homes of upper-class citizens and usually in the bedroom. This does not necessarily mean that the Romans associated eroticism with privacy. Pompeii provides most useful examples of both public and private art. The reason for this is that the volcano preserved vast amounts of useful evidence. It is most important to consider the social class of either patron or viewer‚ and the varying intentions
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