Pompey: Pompey's Early Life
Early life
Who was Pompey the Great
Pompey was born on September 29, 106 BCE. Pompey was born into a wealthy family, his father pompeius starbo was a Roman general. Pompey grew up in Rome, Italy, with his father Pompeius starbo, mothers whose name is unknown, and sister Pompeia. Pompey career stated at a young age of 15 working with his dad in the military.
Family life
Pompeius starbo, as I said before was a Roman general but there is more to Pompey's family life. Pompey's sister, Pompeia was born 100 BCE six years younger than her brother Pompey. Pompeia was a Roman noblewomen of pleb status, she was basically just a normal wife; learn basic house wife skills, manners/etiquette, and how to dance.
The land he called home
Rome at
the time of Pompey was one of the strongest empires at the time, and growing. At the beginning in the eighth century BCE, Ancient Rome started from a little town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its highest point had land in most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the amount of languages spoken in the Rome, (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) obtained from Latin, the modern Western alphabet, their calendar, the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion.
Who was Pompey the Great
Pompey was born on September 29, 106 BCE. Pompey was born into a wealthy family, his father pompeius starbo was a Roman general. Pompey grew up in Rome, Italy, with his father Pompeius starbo, mothers whose name is unknown, and sister Pompeia. Pompey career stated at a young age of 15 working with his dad in the military.
Family life
Pompeius starbo, as I said before was a Roman general but there is more to Pompey's family life. Pompey's sister, Pompeia was born 100 BCE six years younger than her brother Pompey. Pompeia was a Roman noblewomen of pleb status, she was basically just a normal wife; learn basic house wife skills, manners/etiquette, and how to dance.
The land he called home
Rome at
the time of Pompey was one of the strongest empires at the time, and growing. At the beginning in the eighth century BCE, Ancient Rome started from a little town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its highest point had land in most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the amount of languages spoken in the Rome, (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) obtained from Latin, the modern Western alphabet, their calendar, the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion.