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9. Were the Julio-Claudians really as bad as they seem?

JULIO-CLAUDIANS

Augustus

Agustus tried to rule as a king

He would fight and kill people who ran against him so no one was brave enough to stand up

He used the senate to his on good and to do his bidding

He had himself elected tribune, so he could veto whatever the Senate did that he didn't like. People knew that Augustus was really taking over, but as long as there was peace and he didn't SAY he was taking over, it was okay with them.

tiberius

He spent a lot of time swimming and having big parties. He left most of the work to his assistants. But still people thought that was better than civil war.

Caligula

He was a normal ruler at first. But after a while he started doing things like trying to make his horse a senator, and trying to marry his sister. By 41 AD people decided he was too hard to deal with and his own guards killed him.

Claudius

He did better than people expected. In his reign the Romans succeeded in conquering England and making it into another province. But Claudius' wifeAgrippina poisoned him (according to the Roman historian Suetonius) with bad mushrooms, and he died

Nero

Killed and poisoned his own mother,

 Nero was only 16, and his mother Agrippina really controlled politics through him (because women could not be tribunes or senators), until Nero was in his mid-20's. But then he decided he would rather rule on his own, and had his mother killed

and killed brother out of fear of them takeing his throne.

He killed many people that he didn’t like or just because they did something to him that slightly angered him. Usually he would have them publicly beheaded or the more popular people he would have secretly poisoned out of fear that he would be beheaded for killing them.

Nero may be best known for how he handled the Great Fire at Rome in 64 AD. People were blaming him for the fire, and so he rounded up a lot of Christians and had them burned alive as if the fire was their fault.

Just by looking at the things that these people did I know that these people were downright murderers who didn’t care about helping the people of rome they only cared about doing what they wanted to do. The only decent one out of all of the rulers was Claudius who was poisoned by his mother and killed. The julio claudians were really as bad as they seemed maybe worse.

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10. Why do many historians consider Hadrian to have been the "best emperor"?

Many of today’s historians believe that out of all the Roman emperors Hadrian was the greatest. There are many different reasons that Historians consider Hadrian to be the greatest emperor because of his humanistic view upon things and his many famous building projects. During his lifetime Hadrian had constructed many great buildings including the Parthenon, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Temple of Apollo and Roma. The Pantheon was built in 126 AD in Rome, Italy. The word “Pantheon” means to every god. The Pantheon was a temple dedicated to all of the Roman gods. It has the largest unreinforced concrete dome and is decorated with statues of various Roman gods. Another building created by Hadrian was Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall was built in Northern Europe to keep Scottish Barbarians out of the city. The wall is about 120 kilometers long, 20 feet high, and had several forts positioned along it. It stretched from Segedunum all the way to the shores of Solw ay Firth. This wall was important for the defense of the land in Europe that Rome had conquered in. Hadrian is also known as one of the five good emperors of Rome. This is because of his Humanistic views, Hadrian would treat people as equals and let them shape and meaning to their own lives. After reading about Hadrian I feel that he was one of the better Roman emperors and had a positive impact on roman society. 

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5. Imagine you are a Roman in the year 264 BCE (the year of the 1st Punic War). What does your future look like? Then, look at the world around you today. What does your future look like? Think about politics, technology, culture, dominance, balance

264 BCE

My future is very uncertain to what will happen to me and the roman empire

• Politics:
• There was a great deal of unrest. Between the Carthaginians and the romans who were seeking to expand their dominance in this part of the world

• Technology:
• Most of our advances in technology has been aimed at war tactics and weapons, such as:
• Development of navy
• Use of the corvus, a device used by the Romans to bridge to enemy ships, allowing boarding

• Culture
• Most 14 year old men would be training for war or working to support their war efforts
• Others would be staying in Rome to work ok political disputes

• Dominance:
• Carthaginians stood in the way of Rome's continued expansion

The future of the roman culture is only going to expand and diversify from this point forward because of the many views on politics and war, and also the ever growing change In their technology.

2011

• Politics
• Currently our country is at apoint where we are trying to decide how large our government should be and how much control they have over us the people.
• Likewise I believe we are struggling to determine our role in international situations
• Such as the unrest in the middle east .

• Technology
• Our technological advances are expanding at a rapid rate. While some advances are directed towards medecine, most of our advances are being put into creating weapons and defenses for our men on the battlefield. Such as weapons robotic turrets and IED disposal units.
• Despite the increase in our population the edges of the world have been brought closer together by our technology.

• Culture

Our expanded technology has also made certain cultures more common throught people then it has diversified cultures. For instance taste's of music are more broad then specific . You have the ability to access information from anywhere around the world more quickly then the romans could have ever done.

So in the future I believe that our expanding technology is only going to make all of our cultures into one big "melting pot" of culture. Rather then millions and millions of different types of "entree's" of culture.

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11. Was Rome better off as an 'empire' than as a republic?

 believe that Rome was better off as an empire because republics were mainly forms of government used by small city states and as Rome grew in size and power remaining a republic would have been hard. The main problem with the later republic was that it mainly benefited the aristocrats that ran it and not the common people, this created problems between the two groups. When Augustus became the first emperor it was considered to be the first moment of peace and stability in Rome for a long time. This was because during the times of the late republic there was constant civil war. The later Roman Republic also had a lot of corruption within itself and I’m kind of surprised it lasted as long as it did. Although, republics do work well in small city states in the case of the Romans with their growing population converting over to an empire would have been the best thing to do.

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8. Do you think Caesar's killers were justified in their actions?

At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Caesar was becoming more of a dictator and the Senate even declared that he was the dictator of the Roman Republic. The Senate saw that Caesar was beginning to gain a lot of power and they did not like how he was stealing their power. This made the Senate angry and they were afraid he would overthrow the Senate with his power and possibly become a king. These were the main reasons why the Roman Senate decided that Julius Caesar needed to go. So a group of Roman Senators called the Liberatores devised a plan to kill Julius Caesar so they could regain power in the republic. On the day of March 15, or the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar went to the Theatre of Pompey to see a gladiator fight. After it was over, Caesar’s loyal friend, Mark Antony, knew something was wrong and tried to alert Caesar, but he barely misused him. Caesar was led into a back room at the theatre and he was approached by about forty Roman Senators. Caesar knew something was wrong at this point, but he could not escape because he was surrounded on all sides, and he was stabbed about 23 times. Caesar was officially dead at the scene and the Roman Republic would fall a little bit because the government was in total chaos. I do not think killing Julius Caesar was an option that the Senate should have used and it was a terrible act that should have not been taken. 

Although I also believe that Julius Caesar saw his death coming, and knew that he was either going to be assassinated or die by natural causes because of his epilepsy. he kept this secret from a lot of the roman government and other leaders because he was afraid that they would think lesser of him.

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6. Design a Google Streetview architectural tour through Rome.

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 2. How was the Struggle of the Orders influential on later Roman politics?

The Struggle of the orders was a political conflict between the common people of Rome and their Aristocratic leaders. In 449 BCE Roman civilians wanted to begin running for elected offices in the Roman government.  Rome was fighting with a neighboring city at this time so the soldiers went on a strategic strike for the right to run for office. As a result, the "tribune to the plebs" was formed. As time passed the citizens of Rome became equal with their formerly-aristocratic leaders. These events helped create a more democratic Roman government.  The Plebian Tribune helped to create democracy in the Roman Empire.  Whenever a new law was passed its finalization would have to be approved by popular assembly, so if a law was not liked it was vetoed. Elected officials were also selected by popular assembly. To make sure that the official elected didn’t gain too much power new officials were elected annually.

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One main element of politics has been carried over from ancient rome to our democracy  is voteing. Voteing is a big part of how we create our laws and what happens in our society. All of our people give say in a good amount of laws just as ancient romans did. Also the more rich and powerful people within the roman community that had more say in things were the patricians wich is a lot like our state senates and some other parts of our government. The tribute of plebs is a lot like our vice-president he can veto power and things that the plebians(civilians) don’t like. Also another main thing we should see here is that instead of having 1 king who says yes or no to everything he himself doesn’t like the roman empire just like us had many people creating laws and rules for the empire(until Julius ceaser came along), just as how we have many people creating our laws for government. 

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The roman sewage systems were used in ancient rome. this is the modern version of the sewer sytem

language

te- yes

gua- no

cuk- earth

geef- chair

mun- food

qwes- water

vug- hair

das- left

raf- right

crippy- sun

sefil- moon

freg- sky

nees- land

frojs- plant

ugnes- river

mehes- lake

fexim- animal

hexta- planet

keefa- sleep

hyun- eat

krink- drink

helgo- hunt

geefo- walk

hesax- run

chinl- dark

nuyt- stupid

racder- smart

venfe- funny

threg- crazy

behit- lazy

igny- ugly

zecli- pretty

wazex- fat

kinjum- skinny

liket- good

wech- bad

opix- lucky

apem- fast

ceve- old

labif- young

kunk- slow

lopis- happy

kik- sad

fraf- leader

jina- house

poli- art

yert- day

aru yi- door

minz- fun

lensd- field

rolp- head

dineh- fish

tinx- tree

cinit- floor

serb- roof

waser- room

tyre- boy

kiut- girl

fet- all

libde- dinner

jugde- weather

fellem- done

zigfes- clothes

kug- hello

porsa ji- good bye

puka minif- good morning

puka kileb- good night

yuing bi derftem- see you tomorrow

wrent- face

ikeku- pencil

tresa- paper

gryen- health

noper- bowl

jigrew- nothing

mancen- painting

okey- danger

poer- dirt

erkiop- breezy

and = i (ee)

is = ih

hungry = ungle (uncle but instead of the "kah" sound its "guh" sound)

deer = desh

cow = cosh

bird = bish (yes i know. all animals end with -sh)

sky = skaw

ground = gaw

fire = faw

water = wah

berry = bish

spear = spe

3) 4.

4. "War is a form of technology". Agree or Disagree.

Disagree war is a form of civilization not technology war is not a physical item it was something created by civilazation to claim territory and to show power

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3. Why do you think so many conspiracy theories surround the pyramids and the megaliths? Give examples of a few and explain where you think they come from.

There are so many theories because there is so many things that could have happened. And it is also such an important part of history that a lot of people who learn about it so there are many theories on it.

1)created by aliens. We say this because it seem just to mind boggling that people could have made them people afraid of the unknown so they are driven by fear to find explanation

3) 2.

2. Give several examples of monuments in Maryland / DC / PA that might be familiar to folks who live here but which would not be understood by outsiders without an explanation. Please include your own or public domain photos.

The crab statue outside orioles stadium. Maryland food around the chesapeke is a good amount of crabs and most maryland people eat crab so it is a good mnonument that shows about the state of maryland. People who don’t live in maryland don’t know either what crabs are or how much we eath them here in maryland. For example when my dad first came her he was bewildered by why people were eating "giant spiders"

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1. What is the oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to you? Why/how does it matter? (from @butwait on Twitter)

The cave pantings it shows that the nomads could create tools.it was also the beginning of civilizatoin as we know it if nomads never existed we wouldn’t have existed

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3. Describe the importance of water in the ancient world. (from Twitter)

They were natural boundaries..they were used for supplies they were a main source of trade, they were used for bathing.

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2. Which do you think is a better roadmap of history artifacts of the humanities (art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, architecture, etc) or political/military conflicts? Why? (from Twitter)

I think that humanties are better road maps because they tell exactly what happens through that time period.

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1) The domestic cat and domestic dog both date to the same moment in human history, Syria about 17,000 years ago. How essential were these animals to the development of agriculture and cities? Why? How did humans sleep in the days before domesticated dogs? - Ira Socol, Michigan State University

Before dogs were domesticated we had to take shifts during the night around campsites to make sure that no one would attack during the night. But after dogs were domesticated they were used to stand guard, not only could the dogs hear the intruder coming before the intruder could even see the campsite.

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9. Could a force like Alexander the Great exist today? Why or why not?

No soceity is to large and to "fake" because of how connected we are through internet. so no one could really become a ruler or "great" becuase people will think its a hoax. maybe there was already a second coming but no one noticed becuase they thought it was a hoax. people are very untrusting to their world

4b) 2)

2. Do you think Alexander honestly felt like he was avenging Persian wrongs? Or was that just propaganda to mask his goal of conquest?

I think that he wanted to get revenge for his father more then it was just a conquest

4b) 1)

1. What compels someone to lead others?

The thought of being able to help someone in their time of need makes us feel better about our own honor.