western civ blog

Today in Western Civilization we had a substitute and in the beginning, we started taking notes out of the textbook most people were almost finished but the main thing that the textbook was focusing on was how Religion influenced civilization and how Religion was not very big until the rise of Christianity also it talked about how alot of people were persecuted for being Christians because not many of the big important people agreed with Christianity and this made some people get into arguments and this also leads to people being killed if they didnt have the same beliefs as you did which is also a big them in the Bible Jesus was killed because other people didnt gree with his beliefs. But everyone finished so we got to do work for our other classes Comments

today in western civilization we took a test on rome and we were allowed to use our blogs this is the blog I used on the test  Etruscans came from north-central part of the peninsula   metalworkers, artists, architects   two foundation myths: Virgil’s  Aeneid  (where Aeneas escapes from Troy - sound familiar?)   the story of Remus and Romulus   Greeks   they had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea   Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:   religious beliefs   alphabet   much of their art   military techniques and weaponry   the Latins!   descendants of Indo-Europeans   settled on the banks of the Tiber   situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further   a commercial port, but not susceptible to attack   and... built on seven hills (esp. Palatine)   many streams flowed into the ...

Etruscans came from north-central part of the peninsula metalworkers, artists, architects two foundation myths: Virgil’s Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy - sound familiar?) the story of Remus and Romulus Greeks they had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as: religious beliefs alphabet much of their art military techniques and weaponry the Latins! descendants of Indo-Europeans settled on the banks of the Tiber situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further a commercial port, but not susceptible to attack and... built on seven hills (esp. Palatine) many streams flowed into the Tiber there was a marshy area called the Forum,  between Palatine and Capitoline Hills Tarquin the Proud’s grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber urban legend says Washington DC was built on a swamp - but only a...