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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.