Imagine a place where nobody could get water. And even the people who did often died due to contamination. People had to deal with that‚ until the Romans came along. The Romans solved this problem by building aqueducts along the whole city‚ providing clean water to everyone. The Romans pushed the boundaries of engineering‚ much farther than anyone before their time. They made aqueducts‚ concrete‚ they built roads‚ better bridges‚ the Colosseum‚ revolutionized the arch‚ and many more things. Aqueducts
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many centuries. Roman art includes architecture‚ painting‚ sculpture and mosaic work. In this short Learning Journal I will discuss how did the purpose of the sculpture and painting of Rome differ. Roman sculpture was heavily influenced by Greek sculpture. In fact‚ many of the Roman sculptures were just copies of Greek sculptures. But the Roman sculpture was created to serve a purpose: namely‚ to impress the public - to communicate the power and majesty of Rome. Sculpture on Roman buildings could
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havoc across most of medieval Europe for nearly a decade. While in the modern age‚ we know that the disease originated from fleas carried on the backs of rats‚ the cause of the pandemic remained completely unknown to the people of Europe from a period between 1346 and 1353 AD. As the Europeans were overwhelmingly Catholic at the time‚ a historian can make the argument that Europeans believed that the Black Death was the wrath of
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This essay discusses the extent to which Europe was a patriarchal society during the early modern period. It will restrict its commentary to a definition of patriarchy and the impact this had on the social structure within a communities’ marital households. These households typically consisted of a husband‚ wife and servants largely living within rural and urban communities. The essay will take account of exceptions to the patriarchal model and will support its arguments with analysis of Primary
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Communism is a system where there is no private ownership of business or property and the country’s wealth gets shared among the population. Vladimir Lenin started the communist international which was an organisation with an aim of spreading communism throughout the world. Communism really was a threat to Australians in the 1950s‚ the events of the Korean War‚ different alliances being formed‚ the banning of the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Petrov affair all tell us that communism
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The Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire The story of Christianity ’s rise to prominence is a remarkable one but also blurry one. As far as historical fact about the beginnings of Christianity that is. Many scholars point to the time around 4 BC as the most likely period for Christ ’s birth‚ but that is also uncertain. Likewise the year of his death is not historically accurate or clearly established. It is thought to have taken place sometime around Ad 26 through AD 36. Christianity as a religion
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The articles that were assigned were accounts from Spanish men who actually lived during the 1700’s to the mid 1800’s‚ and their impact on the Indians. They were able to document different situations in which the Natives were exploited or abused‚ although some portions of the readings like the one by Father Junipero of the San Diego Mission‚ or that of Captain Alejandro Malaspina are completely one sided. Both make it seem to the reader like the Natives were uncivilized and didn’t have a fear of
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How healthy were people in medieval York? In medieval York medicine and health were very important aspects in life. For many peasants that lived in medieval York‚ disease and poor health were part of their daily life. Medicine was both basic and sometimes useless. Towns and cities were filthy and the knowledge we have of hygiene today was non existent. As the populations of medieval towns such as York increased‚ hygienic conditions worsened. People lived so close together in both villages and towns
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Once the Roman empire collapsed‚ Christian Europeans civilizations began to emerge in Western Europe. The Frankish rule the emerged from within Rome established a Christian state that lasted that was founded by Clovis and was continually passed down to the sons from the Merovingians founded by Clovis‚ the Carolingians led by Charles Martel and Pepin III‚ to the age of Charlemagne following Pepin’s death. Although Charlemagne’s empire was able to improve the status of Western Europe‚ after Charlemagne’s
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these spirits it was believed that you must feed them and provide them with shelter for the night otherwise you are in danger of harm hence the modern practice of Trick or Treat‚ bobbing for apples the hollowing out and lighting of pumpkins‚ cats‚ ghosts‚ goblins‚ death and a preoccupation with satanic paraphernalia on October 31st as filtered down from the ancient Scottish‚ Irish and Celtic custom surrounding samhain. How did it ever become associated with Christianity? In the early 6th and 7th centuries
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