PPT-Ancient Romans:

Food By Christina Selkirk Common Meals Rich Peacock tongues stuffing of a chicken inside a duck inside a goose inside a pig inside a cow and the whole thing was cooked together. The Romans used great public projects to make their empire the most advanced of the ancient world. . The Romans particularly excelled at building roads. The roads made it easier the Romans to travel, move troops, collect taxes and trade with faraway provinces. The expression, “All Roads Lead To Rome” refers to . Rome. Sometime before the first . surviving written historical . account, Rome was . controlled by the Etruscans, . a brutal civilization from the . northern part of the Italian . peninsula. . Etruscans kings . the . Romans . Can Tell Us. Venus Maritima - Pompeii. Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome. Agenda. Writing Corner. What’s not Right?. Background. Some History. Roman . S&G. 101. Social History, Cultural . Ancient Rome. Hayley Kennedy. What role did music play in their life?. Who were the famous Roman poets?. What contributions did the Romans make to language development?. How did the Romans express themselves visually?. Italy is a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea east of the Greek peninsula. . Rome lies on the western shore near the center of the peninsula. . Today Rome is the capital of the modern nation . The Beginning. c. 750 BCE: Latins (tribe) settle what becomes Rome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa02Me27sYw&feature=share&list=PL94166D8B8C3BB66D. Rome went from . A small farming village by the Tiber River. The citizens of ancient Rome were serious about having fun. They gobbled food and guzzled drink. They loved hearing musicians play. But probably nothing was more fun for them – or popular – than spending a savage day at the . The Regal Period to the Early Republic (753 BC – 509 BC). The Rape of the Sabine Women. Ovid, . Ars. . Amatoria. . I.87-132. It was you, Romulus, who first mingled the cares of love with public games, that far-off day when the rape of the Sabine women gave wives to your warriors who had waited for them so long. No curtains then hung in the marble theatre, nor was the stage made red with liquid saffron. In those days branches from the woods of the Palatine were the only adornment of our simple stage. The people sat on seats of turf, their heads canopied with boughs.. Italy is a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea east of the Greek peninsula. . Rome lies on the western shore near the center of the peninsula. . Today Rome is the capital of the modern nation . G. eography. Ancient Rome began in the eighth century B.C., it grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa, and the Mediterranean islands.. Italy is a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea east of the Greek peninsula. . Rome lies on the western shore near the center of the peninsula. . Today Rome is the capital of the modern nation . The Romans used great public projects to make their empire the most advanced of the ancient world. . The Romans particularly excelled at building roads. The roads made it easier the Romans to travel, move troops, collect taxes and trade with faraway provinces. The expression, “All Roads Lead To Rome” refers to . Ancient Egypt. In ancient Egypt, LINEN was by far the most common textile. It helped people to be comfortable in the subtropical heat..  WOOL was considered impure. Only the wealthy wore animal fibers that were the object of taboos. They were used on occasion for overcoats, but were forbidden in temples and sanctuaries.  . Mosaic . was also a form of art that was created by the Romans.. Mosaic is a picture made from chips of colored stone or glass. iv.The. Culture of Ancient Rome. The Culture of Ancient Rome. Like Greek agoras, Roman cities had a forum for markets & public gatherings .