Ancient Rome

GEOGRAPHY

•  It's capital is Ravenna.
• The latitude and longitude are 42°N,13°E
• The modern days countries are Italy, Dalmatia.

Interesting facts

• Ancient Rome women had to dry their 
• hair with goat fat and beech wood ashes.
• In ancient Rome they played chess, checkers, and tic-tac-toe back then.

Written language

• Five main languages that came from ancient Rome are
• Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.
• Languages from Rome were developed 
• from vernacular Latin in different countries.

Artifact

Government

• Rome had republican or representative government. 
• In their representative democracy one 
• small group voted for citizens.

MOst important Fact

• In the Roman Colosseum, gladiators
• would fight animals and other men in it.

connection

• I can connect this to the football stadium.
• We play sports in there and we make 
• the audience interested, but we do not kill people.

conclusion

• The Romans had a representative government.
• We model our democracy after the Romans.
• The word democracy is a Roman word.
• It is important to study history 
• to know where we came from.

Bibliography

• “The nystrom world atlas”
• capital of ancient roman
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Roman_Empire_125.png
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/maps/italy-lat-long.jpg
• ht tp://www.crystalinks.com/romelanguage.html

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/15_roman_civilizati...
• http://rachelderozario.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/alph11.gif
• http://www.ngkids.co.uk/did-you-know/10-facts-about-the-ancient-Romans
• http://www.fcps.edu/KingsParkES/technology/ancient/rome.htm#top
• http://www.afaweb.org/exhibitions/details/documents/InterestingFactsaboutAn... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiatorial

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiatorial
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