Old Roman Aqueduct

Old Roman Aqueduct
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**//...Heroes of the Ancient Rome...//**

In the ancient Rome the society glorified the soldier and military service, so the ancient roman heroes were amazing people who had military stretegists.
but who were in an important place were the gladiators, the word gladiator come of the latin word "Gladius" it means "sword".

the main gladiator was Cornelius Scipion "africanus" he was the first gladiator known in the history in 206 A.C other important gladiators were: Espartacus, Diocles and Marco Valerio. the gladiators were slaves or prisoners who were sentenced to be a fun for the people.
on the other hand we can find nine types of gladiators such as: Andabatae, Equites, Hoplomacus, mirmos, tracius and others.

something special in the life of gladiators is their lifestyle because they had a vegetarian diet, high in proteins, and the reason of this diet was for have more muscle mass and with that can win in the fights.
Furthermore they had a lot of fractures and wounds, obviously they were served by the best doctors, because without the gladiators the society haven't fun so the emperor had the need to care this man.

Natalia Soto

ANCIENT ROME INVENTIONS

In the ancient Rome inventions abound and many of this are in use today.
The main invention was the aqueduct and we still use it and is very important for our life, it is amazing how the romans created a mechanism that moves water from one place to another, and it was measured to one cubic meter per citizen.
In the art of war romans created a siege ladder that was used to enter in a Castel without making any damage on the walls but it was difficult to translate it to the battle-field so it was not used in many battles. Another military invention that romans made, was related to the army and the organization and subordination in the battle field, they created many strategies in battle including the turttle and the formation, they made advances in weapons and the armor of soldiers was strong and light in thier shields.

On the other hand we have the roman coliseum which is a world wide known building, it was a great advance in the art of architestry. Its construction started between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus.

Other importan invention was the calendar, thanks to Julius Caesar and the history of it is very unique because, March is for the god Mars, July was in honour of Julius Caesar and August for the emperor August.
moreover they created the name of the days of the week, monday is for the moon, sunday for the sun, saturday is in honour for the god Saturn, the others days was for the latin languages.
An invention of Julius Caesar was the increase to 900 senators which at that time was a Big step to Get the absolutevely power of ROME.

Other interesting inventions were the scissors; this was used at the beggining as a frocep in a surgical pincer, the postal system that was used between generals for communicating rome the things that was happenning in the battle front .
Rome was the first country to recolect taxes to Romans Citizen and people who lives in the Empire and own slaves, trade agreements with other provinces and this helped to support the Empire of Rome.

In conclussion all the inventions that romans created were very important to the development of the civilizations that came after the fall of Rome, and now days are still used in our day to day life.

WORK AND ECONOMY IN ROME

Most Roman people had to work very hard to survive, at the bigining the activity more abundad was the agriculture but later peasants had to abandoned their lands. The rome`s econmy was based on slaver`s job, so this was proporcionality. we mean, if you had more slavers you coul obtain more producction, the mean consequence was that million people in whole empire lived in difficult conditions without to reach a better social an economic level. The most difficult situation was of the minings, so they had few opportunities to survive, this job was realized by slavers, and the domestic slaver`s job was easier, specially I fit was realted to children`s care and education of them.

In the cities the most important work was handmade, so you could find shops related to footwear, ceramics, fabric and some food, you could factiries where the main fuction was to keep some products to market or to give for army.

Generally, we can say Rome`s economy was based on explotation of materias primas such as grains oil or winw, in a silmilar way they obtain a good economy result about victories in the conquests like gold, grains, fabric. Acording to that we can say that romes`job was based on explotation and extraction of materias primas in the similar on exportation an importation about grains and fabrics.

Many people worked on te Tejano, it was a building, it was one of the bigger in Rome, which had many stores, it was visited for all people around the world. For that reason, we can say that Rome was a city dedicated to buying and selling of products and the diffuse of these products in all Empire.

We can notice that people worked in trade. Therefor they offered the products on streets, so they commerce converted in a center social, it is important to say that products like silk was more expensive, empires only could buy it.

Finally, each roman citizen received his/her money, I mean slavers and tradesmen only poor citizen received money given by state whit the purpose to protect children. The last textsays Rome adquired its economy with owns resources and others by conquests.

...CuLtUrAl PrAcTiCeS...


MEDICINE OF ANCIENT ROME


The medicine in the ancient rome was something amazing because the doctors didn't know big thing about the medicine or they did a lot in practice but not in the theory.
the people who work in the medicine field was only men because the society think that women only would serve make healing with plants.
roman doctors make wonderful things for sick people, in first place when a person have a headache they decrease the pressure breaking the head and with that treatment people was good. but the roman doctors was really really good in the surgery because their knowledge in this area was huge, they had the capacity for operate any part of the body in a person, and that capacity increased everyday thanks to the wars between the army, where the doctors have to cure and save the soldiers in moments of emergency.
but not everything was good with roman doctors because in many cases they only cure, save or treat people with a lot of money.

if you want read more about medicine of ancient rome go to:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medicine_in_ancient_rome.htm


Natalia M. Soto



Families in Rome had a strong organization. The rol is specific and absolute in each member in the family. For example, the father had all the authority in the family due to he controlled the personal property of the children and his wife. In adition, the father could mistread, sell or even kill his children if they not obey him. Besides, the father could decide where a child would live or die.
On the other hand, the children in Rome are property of their fathers, every in their lives are controlled for their "clan" like their names, for example, their first name was a personal name, the second name was of their clan, and the third name was the family name. The education of children was completely in the hands of their parents too. Is the same such as the boys as the girls. When the father die, the oldest son must take the role of the head of the family. Any adult son couldn't enter into any form of contract without agreement of his father. In adition, it would have been impossible for any young man to follow a political career, if he was still under his father's authority.

Other main thing is the marriage in Roman society. The favorite month for marriage was in June. When the girls was around thirteen years old is the perfect time to get married, and her parents always decide her couple. However, women had few rights in marriage. A husband could divorce his wife if she did not bear a son. But, when a couple had children, especially the first boy, the wife get a little more authority.

Although, the father's influence is strong, the mother in ancient rome also had an important work. In general, woman in Roman society were not given much power. She couldn't to take part in political process. In fact, women such as queens could get a few power position but the Romans did not look it favorably. Take into account, the lives of woman changed all right their position in society. The women who came from the wealthy level of society would spend much of their days socializing and planning their next entertainment with their friends. Besides, this women would have slaves do all the home work, like wash clothes. Few women get lived pleasure, because the greater part had to keep her house and charge of raising children. Always, when a man returned home, he expected to find his house in order.
Women's responsability were basic. All the time, women had to cleaned the house and shopping for food necessary. Women were in charge of many subjects about their home and their children however, other women also worked out home, for example women were put in charge of making cheese, and other food for sell.
The Roman sense of familiy life applied also to a person's dead. This mean, the traditions survives until the day at the dead of any member of family, in special father's dead, due to the father had a main rol in all families. The Roman families have an important ritual where the preparation of the body involve all an sacred course. All members of the family have to be present when a Roman died.

ROMAN INVENTION: LAWS

The Roman Society was based on laws because they were very organized and they have a Roman civil law in way to develop a great system based on rules and principles. Roman law was one of the most important inventions of the roman people. In the ancient Rome civilization the laws were based on the Greeks and with those requirements maked the criminal proceedings.
In the ancient Rome was very interesting that the state was like an arbitrator who heard people and resolved the cases. In this time de criminal proceedings is very important because with it we can manage different cases and find some solutions for the problems, not only social problems we can fix too economic problems and democratic. Moreover this proceedings are used like in the ancient Rome with the unlike that now this is including with other processes and laws.

The administrative system in Ancient Rome Civilization was very strong due to it is focus on customs and tradition of society in this time. For example the first Roman code of law was developed during the early republic and this code was characterized by a formalism that during for 1,000 or more years. The Roman laws also were based on the idea about “the actions and words produced legal consequences”. Each emperor take part in the building of the roman civil laws.

Another relevant point is about the principles of Roman civil law because, this civilization look for new reasonable laws, and always thinking in human benefits and in the society beneficial. Besides the Roman civil law was flexibility due to they include or accept new ideas and opinions in their legal principles sometimes. Basically they want to build a great society with a strong system of democracy and laws. This idea was brilliant and involves main points. For example, the influence of the Roman civil laws in nowadays is admirable. Currently, people around the world have a civil code and this consist of a rules or laws that define the social organizations. If you analyze the influential of the ancient civilization in today, you will be sure that our last generations were a main part in way to contribute on we develop today.

Take into account, we concluded that the system of law in Rome was one of the most important and successful legal procedures in the history. Fortunately, we can applied this tradition in our own laws and the best part is that we can improve and contribute in this laws.



Ancient Rome