Ancient+Rome

=**Ancient Rome**= by Raymond Huang and Liu Xue

**Geography**
“Central Italy, the Tiber River region, left bank tributary of Jiya Xiao (Chiascio) River, in La (Nera) within the River and Anie (Aniene) River, right bank there Pa Liya (Paglia) River and Neisituolei (Nestore) the river. Rome peak times, rely mainly on the supply of vegetables on both sides of the Tiber gardens and farm, feeding the Tiber River in Rome, Rome, nourishing crops. Due to pull within a river downstream, Anie river and other tributaries, the catchment area of the expansion, import totaled 500 million cubic meters of water, so that the long dry summer in Rome is still navigable.”(baidu)

**Society**
Roman citizens only nobles and freedmen, then the system is similar to ancient Greece and ancient Rome, a slave system, so the slave does not belong to citizens.“Archon: Two consuls to exercise the highest administrative rights, by election, they all must be approved by consent decree implementation, they are not dictators, only in times of crisis facing the country, the senate and consuls may jointly appoint two authoritarian by command. Dictator's rights without any restrictions, but its reign no longer than six months. Two consuls usually a text of a military, civilian management of state, generals outside the campaign.Senate: Control the country's decision-making power. Senate members are formed by the nobility, noble master the national decision-making powers to ensure that no abuse of power and surveillance consul dictator's every move are completely dependent on the senate.Citizens' Assembly: Meets once a year, civilian workers can post and participate in elections proposed by the Senate proposal. Safeguard the interests of the civilian population, in order to protect the rights of civilians from arbitrary violation of the nobility.People have the characteristics of excitement, especially after warm, reading the Jungle, washing the bath, all the stimulus is gone, they are more a challenge, and their challenge is gay.(baidu)

**Culture**
Roman is the use of Latin, they wrote a Roman history in Latin. “Many writers are also writing poetry and prose in Latin, to Caesar, Cicero and other Latin prose is represented, to Virgil, Horace, Ovid as the representatives of the Roman poetry, their works have been The writer of the world.”Construction: The earliest Roman architecture comes from the Greek, often based on the typical Greek style to transform, “such as Duo Like the end of the column type column coupled with a column base, the stigma of the Ionic style added to the Collins vortex volume get composite-type stigma stigma, make the building more complex and beautiful forms.” Engraving: Roman sculptures carved by the Greek art of the impact of characters is extremely idealistic Painting: “The paintings are mainly Roman mosaics and frescoes, and more specific historical events recorded, used to decorate public places and homes. These murals, frescoes are divided into four Roman style "brick structure", "Building Structure", "decoration" type "composite"Faith: Roman polytheistic religion, animistic. “Numina is the belief in the soul of the family, the family of the deceased rite. ”“The Romans have ritual, usually from the nobility to take some animals to sacrifice in heaven, pray there will be a good thing to happen.”HUNT ====

**Economy**
According to the history,there are many different way for the economic activity in Rome, there are transport, merchant shipping and farming. "Most farming land is owned by aristocratic Romans. Despising trade, business, and manufacture, it is beneath a Roman man's dignity to be anything except a warrior, a magistrate, or a farmer,with slaves to do all the work."(Hurt) According to the article, only the aristocratic Romans open the farm, they use the slaves for their work,and sell their own product.they don't believe in business. "the Roman Road combines many of the features a traveler encounters when journeying form one town to another."(Hurt) the Roman Road make Roman's transport more easier. They can sell their own good to other place,and they can get other thing in other country.

**Government**
The decision-making process in Rome is different to the other country."In Rome, average citizens held great power. During that time, the Roman established various assemblies,including a senate, to make laws and represent the views of the people."(Carnine, Cortes, Curtis, Robinson) Their make their own laws by people. But there was some people still control the law."In the Republic, the Senate and various Assemblies made new laws,but their interpretation was down to praetors, the magistrates who judged trial cases, as they still do."(Hunt) In that time,the civilian have the most of the power in Rome,but their power dependence on Senate and various assemblies. With out that, the civilian couldn't use their power.

**Change**
Republic change in to Imperial system In the early Roman republic began to grow up and conquer the entire Mediterranean. However, in the late republic, the economic development of slavery in Roman society had a variety of internal contradictions: the conquest of Rome and to the contradictions, the contradiction between slavery and the slave-owners, large and small land owners and land owners of the contradictions contradictions within the ruling class, the Romans changed since the fall hedonism and corruption, slavery, and the people they conquered to live oppressed in life, when these have become increasingly acute, intensified after the outbreak of the slave uprising, war allies and the ruling class of the civil war, eventually leading to the demise of the republic and the monarchy was established.

**Cited**
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