Once there was a city in Italy. The name of the city was Pompeii. Pompeii was not a great city. It was considered one of the wealthier towns. Its ruins were all preserved. Pompeii lies on a plateau of lava. Pompeii sat 2 km away from the coast of Italy. It also sat 1 mile away from Mount Vesuvius. The town had a wall built around it. There were 8 main entrances to the town within the walls. The streets were built very well.…
The eruption of Mt Vesuvius in Pompeii is as influential today as it was in ancient times. This is for many reasons, the primary reason being the unique preservation of structures, frescos (wall paintings) and many other things.…
Using Source A and B and your own knowledge, describe the main features of the economy in Pompeii.…
Vesuvius entered the history of volcanology with the eruption of 79 AD burying towns and making history as one of the most fascinating natural disasters ever to hit this planet. The eruption destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplonti and Stabiae and caused the death of thousands of people, including Pliny the Elder. Earthquakes occurred frequently before the eruption in 79 AD but the locals disregarded them, as they were extremely common in this area. An earthquake was recorded in 62 AD on the 5th of Febuary. This earthquake caused serious damage in both Pompeii and Herculaneum, and minor damage in Nuceria and Naples, which was where the Emperor, Nero at this time, was performing in the theatre. According to writer Seneca, the earthquakes lasted for several days and it wasn’t until the 4th day that they began to die down. Seneca also said that he “presumed that the earthquake swarm occurred at a shallow depth in the Vesuvian area”. People of the time were very surprised at the extreme extent of the damage.…
In the city of Pompeii on the morning of August 24, 79 CE, everyday life was commencing as usual. The stirrings of the mountain in the distance went unnoticed until an explosion rocked the streets. Panic broke out as people tried to flee the city and parents made vain efforts to protect their children from the falling ash and rocks that would cover the city. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius did not just demolish a city, it wiped out an entire civilization.…
1. The name of my volcano is Mount St. Helens, it is located in Southern Washington State. Mount St. Helens is part of the ring of fire, a circle of active volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean.It is one of the most beautiful mountains in the Cascade Range, because It is a dormant stratovolcano many people will visit to play in the snow at it’s basen.…
volcano is a historical event where 100s to 1000s of people go to see it yearly.…
To start off, Mt.Vesuvius is immensely vicious and has wiped out numerous lives. This eerie volcano has been mysteriously dormant since the last eruption in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is located on the prairie of Campania which is about seven miles from the famous city of Naples. The brutal volcano stands at about 4,190 feet above sea level and is best known for the Pompeii eruption. The Pompeii eruption took the lives of all the citizens present in the time of this…
Have you ever been through a natural disaster? My mom,dad and grandma have all experienced one.They all had to find new ways to live their daily lives but with more percussions.The Mt. Saint Helens eruption was hard on my mom because she couldn't play outside for a while.…
Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the upper atmosphere. Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines (Pfeiffer). For Example, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, is hundreds of thousands of years old and has erupted more than 50 times. It’s most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when the volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. The dust “poured across the land” like a flood, one witness wrote, and shrouded the city in “a darkness…like the black of closed and unlighted rooms” (Staff). To give an illustration of the conditions the survivors, a man and his young son, must face on a daily basis McCarty states, “nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before” (McCarthy, Page 3). This suggests that air is only getting heavier with pollutions, as each day passes, and the air quality is extremely…
The United States contains in its history the most significant volcanic eruption to occur in the lower forty-eight states. When Mount St. Helen's erupted, the effects were seen by many, and scientists were fascinated with learning about the volcano. Much research was conducted looking into the economic, ecological, and personal aspects of the eruption. Mount St. Helens proves to be a memorable landmark to all Americans and still a source of fascination today for a variety of persons.…
Helens erupted. This eruption helped adjust historians’ idea of what happened to Mt. Vesuvius. Mount St. Helens experienced a pyroclastic flow causing the whole north side of the volcano to collapse. This event was extremely similar to the definition that Pliny the Younger provided to Mt. Vesuvius back in 79CE. Since these two eruptions were so similar, historians went back and tested remains of Mt. Vesuvius’ eruption. After the examinations, they finally concluded that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was a pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows are dense mixtures of hot, dry rock fragments and hot gas. The temperatures of these rocks are extremely hot enough to kill a…
On May 18th, 1980, in Washington State, the volcano, Mount St. Helens erupted. This eruption caused widespread terror throughout the towns surrounding the mountain. The magma from the volcano burned up the forest and killed most of the animals in the area. It affected the wildlife greatly because, after the eruption, the ecosystem was burned and smoldered thus killing thousands of animals in the region. This eruption was the deadliest of all the volcanic activity in the United States, and the people who live near the mountain are still affected by what the eruption did to this day.…
To begin with, the first reason I choose to bike up Mount Shasta is because it is located in Northern California. According to the website US Climate Data, the local high temperature of Mount Shasta during July is 83 degrees fahrenheit and the low average in Mount Shasta is 49 degrees fahrenheit, which limits the chances of snow in that area. This is because the website Answers.com states that it must be below 37 degrees fahrenheit.This is why I would choose July to mountain bike up Mount Shasta.…
We are also introduced to the main character's family, such as his wife Elaine, and his son Jamie. We also see what each person's role is within the family.…