Ancient+Rome

Ancient Rome, once a slow growing civilization, turned into one of the first civilizations to accomplish great things. Having many different ways to live and great ideas have shaped the world today. The Romans had a polytheistic religion, great sense in arts and many revolutionary inventions such as create concrete and columns, and great accomplishments like conquering almost all of the Mediterranean. This revolutionized the future world in many ways.
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Name of Civilization: Ancient Rome

Dates:9/27/10

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 * The Roman government was a strange mix of a democracy and a republic.
 * The people of Rome took many of their ideas of government from the Ancient Greeks
 * The Ancient Romans balance the power of the government between three branches, there was the executive branch, the legislative branch, and judicial branch.

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 * Polytheistic, worshiped more than one God.
 * Had a god or goddess for specific reasons. (i.e. Zeus God of Thunder and Lightning, King of all the Gods and Goddesses.)
 * Had a story for each Goddess and how they became to become the god of what they are.
 * Had temples to worship, give sacrifices, and pray to the gods.

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 * Cultivated land and save base economy
 * Most concern was to feed a large population
 * The currency was base on trading
 * · Roman's built a Roman Ampi-theater called The Colosseum.
 * · The Colosseum is one of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World.
 * · The Colosseum used to showcase Gladiator games, Wild Animal battles, and the executions of criminals.
 * · Donato Bramante was a famous Roman illusionistic artist, engineer, and architectual builder. Roman's built a Roman Ampi-theater called The Colosseum.
 * Donato Bramante was known for his spees and willingness to work
 * Roman art was influenced by culture, gods, godesses, religion, emperors, masters, and rulers.
 * Art & architecture was used to enforce Rome's power over the land they rules like Africa,Greece,and Egypt.
 * The Romans had many forms of art like sculptures, murals, paintings, buildings, and bridges too.
 * Roman Art was at it's highest moment of popularity from 750 B.C. to 410 A.D.
 * Roman's honored their gods through art & architecture.
 * They used pulleys to move objects up and down
 * The arch (helped support bridges)
 * They invented concrete
 * Women were treated as inferiors
 * Slaves were widely popular
 * Children belonged to there fathers, meaning even if mother was alive , still considered orphans[[image:anicent_rome_society.jpg]]