Roman Lif e
Hannibal crossing the alps
- one of the greatest military achievement of ancient warfare
- happened during the second Punic war
- took 16 days to cross
- Many of their elephants did not surivive the Journey
Why did he cross the Alps
- He thought that it would give him a better chance against Romans if he came down with all his war elephants
- The wars were fought over pure hatred by one side against the other.
- It gave him the element of surprise
It was a bad idea to cross the Alps because his main reason because he lost all of his elephants which were a big part of his plan. He was only able to take control for a small time, and they the Romans took their city back. So all the hard work for only a small of time was not worth it.
Roman Trade
- Very vital to the Roman empire
- Most of the common trade items: beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, Leather marble
- Main trading partners: Spain, France, the Middle East, and North Africa
- made trade very simple by only using 1 form of currency
- They syed the Tiber , Mediterranean sea, and the Black Sea for a trading route
- Two-way traders routes extended to other commercial centers in lands as far away as Egypt, Germany, and China
- The empires, location around the Mediterranean sea Helped make all this commercial activity possible.
Yes location is a key component of trade. Water is the best location to trade because ships bring goods from the river. Ships can not travel on land. They can carry a lot more things then a horse on land. It would be better to have a city by the sea. You would be easy target to invade but you would have to build a strong enough navy , and it would be easy because of the population and money.
Roman Ag
- Used crop rotation
- Sometimes had to import food because of mountians
- after co nquering Egypt, able to import lots of wheat
- Most of the crops raise on large estates called latifundias
- Cicero considered farming the best of all Roman occupations
- The main crops was wheat, and bread, was present almost during every meal
- Farms created main source of income for Romans
- certain types of food were given out to the public for free( corn, wheat)
- Since the Roman Empires streched through alot of land, thre were different climates to allow a mixture of crops produced
- Romans had 4 systems of farm management work done by owner of the family, Tenant farming and share cropping foced labor( slaves) and other arrangements in which farm owner landed farm out
- I would rather be a small time farmer
Slavery
- Ancient rome depended on slaves
- most slaves were foreigners and unlike most places it did not depend on race
- Not uncommon for desperate Romans to sell their children into slavery
- Whne freed, they could work the same jobs as the Plebeians.
- Debt slavery was common, whre a person coud work off a debt by becoming a salve for a certain period of time, dependng on the debt
- Some salve were foced to become gladiators
- Saturnalia- a christmas for the slaves in which the slaves and masters switched places
- During the celebration the master performed all the task a slave would
- it was away that masters would show appreicaton and respect for slaves.
- Manual labor
- domestic services
- could be highly educated and skilled work as teachers and phycisians
- Slaves task includ wroking on farms-produced the food and amterials the cities depended on
- Businesses-managed shps for store owners in charge of shop keeping, lending of money and sellinlg merchandise
- Public buildings worked on aqueduct systems built roads bridges, and arenas.
Gladiators
- The gladiator games were games fought between and armed man and a criminal, wild animal or another solider. They were fought in the Coliseum in fron of large crowds. Many of the people who fougth the criminals , and wild animals risked their social standing and their lifes for glory. They had costumes and scenery which had to be put up as well.
Gladiator games
- Thumbs up means save the gladiator that's down and thumbs down meant death
- Order of Events at the Gladiotar games
- Animal hunting- They had a scene and the Emperor would use a bow from his box seat and shoot them
- The Bestiarri- these were gladiators trained to fight lions and tigers
- Crimminals were senteced to fight wild beast at the games but without any skills, weapons or armor.
- I would fight just incase i got lucky
Emperors
- Tiberius, Adopted son of Augustus- 22 years and six months- possibly assasinated by Caligula. He was a cruel tyrant who put men to death upon mere suspicion
- Caligula- great nephew of Tiberius- 3 years and 10 months= assasinated in the conspiracy involving senators and pratetorian guards
- Claudius 1- Nephew of Tiberius and Uncle of Caligula- 13 years and 9 months- poisoned by his wife- he was weak and foolish who allowed acts of cruelty to be comimted in his name
- Nero- 13 yeras and 8 months stepson adopted son of Claudius- he was a monster of vanity and cruelty, he was usspected of setting fire to the city and allowing more than two thrids of it to burn up so he could rebuild it in a better way
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