Volcano Vesuvius Volcano Vesuvius‚ a famous volcano that changed itself and the land around it over the course of it’s time. Vesuvius is located in Southern Italy and is southeast of the Bay of Naples. It is on the plain of Campania. It was approximately 7 miles (11 kilometers) tall in AD 79‚ before it erupted and buried Pompeii and Stabiae in pumice and ash‚ and Herculaneum with mud flows. (The pumice and ash that had hardened covered the villages for over 28 feet tall‚ and plaster casts were found
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to look for a better future for themselves because “there’re was hopelessness of ever amounting to anything...poverty among the common people where we lived”‚ emphasizing that they had no future in Lodz (Laskin‚ 2010‚ p.21). Later traveling on the Campania. Epstein and Goldberg voyage to America were relatively different because while Epstein had the luxury of having “food prepares...flush toilets...and cabins with six berths”‚ Goldberg “slept in the same bed as the kids and his mother...the smell
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related myths. She continues to talk about archaic art depicting Herakles as described by Pausanias. Then she describes Herakles’ depiction on architecture. These architecture depicting Herakles include the first temple of Hera at Foce del Sele in Campania‚ in the metopes of the Athenian Treasury at Delphi‚ and on the door of the temple of Herakles-Melquart at Cadiz. Stafford goes on to explain that some of the stories of Herakles were grouped together in Roman accounts and other artifacts and even
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importations and exportations of the town providing archaeologist with a sufficient amount to have a great knowledge and understanding of what life was like in Pompeii in terms of their trade and commerce. Pompeii was known as the trade centre of southern Campania for around 600 years and traded with various areas around northern Italy which involved the importation and exportation of goods. The geological positioning made it ideal for trade having a great access to the Mediterranean shipping as well as the
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only see it in your dreams? Well Positano is the place for you! You never know exactly what to expect when you first visit somewhere new‚ but your stay in Positano I can assure you is going to exceed all expectations. This small village located in Campania‚ Italy‚ is the perfect spot when you are searching for the most astounding and relaxing time of your life. Definitely a village like Positano is something made out of a fairytale with its towering and steeply stacked houses of mainly peaches‚ pinks
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Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar was born in Rome on November 16‚ 42 BC. Four years after his birth his mother divorced his father and married Octavian. Tiberius was a descendant of the Claudian family who moved to Rome shortly after the foundation of the city. The Claudians did not respect others who were not of noble ancestry. After Tiberius was four he was raised to be a loyal servant of Augustus. Tiberius is associated with Augustus for 22 years. Augustus had
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period of 1876 and 1930‚ about 5 million Italian immigrants immigrated to the United States. With that being said 4/5th of the immigrants were southern Italian. The 5 main groups that were out of the 4/5th of Italians were in the regions of Calabria‚ Campania‚ Abruzzi‚ Molise‚ and
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Other foreign cults in Pompeii are under scrutiny such as the Temple of Isis‚ when did the people of Pompeii become exposed to this Egyptian based cult? The cult of Isis was one of the most successful and influential foreign based cults in the Campania region‚ there is a wealth of evidence of this cult with over twenty Lalaria with images of Isis and statuettes‚ there is much less evidence of The cult of Isis’s presence in Herculaneum‚ a temple has not yet been discovered however a large statue
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Mount Vesuvius What? – Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano located near the bay of Naples in Italy (at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate)‚ and it is mostly known for its eruption year 79 A.D. that buried the city Pompeii under a thick layer of volcanic ash. Although the destruction of the Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum is mostly mentioned when talking about the eruption‚ Mount Vesuvius also affected other cities such as Oplontis‚
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According to Shaw in “Spartacus and The Slave Wars”‚ prisoners of war enslaved at the end of the Second Punic War rebelled in 198 B.C. This slave uprising in central Italy is the first reliable report of one‚ although it was surely not the first actual slave uprising. There were other slave uprisings in the 180s. These were small; however‚ there were 3 major slave revolts in Italy between 140 and 70 B.C. These 3 uprisings are called the Servile Wars‚ since the Latin for ’slave’ is servus. However
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