BRIEF HISTORY OF ITALY Italy‚ history of since earliest times the history of Italy has been influenced by cultural and political divisions resulting from the peninsula’s disparate geography and by circumstances that made Italy the scene of many of Europe’s most important struggles for power. EARLY ITALY Human activity in Italy started during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. By the beginning of the Neolithic period (c.5000 BC)‚ the small communities of hunters of earlier times were
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Gladiators were mostly unfree individuals either condemned criminals‚ prisoners of wars who had lost their citizenship rights‚ although‚ some of them were volunteers who were mostly freedmen or very low classes of freeborn men who chose to be a slave for monetary rewards or for the fame. Gladiators were brought for the purpose of gladiatorial combat and would endure branding‚ chains‚ flogging or death by the sword and subjected to a rigorous training‚ fed on a high-energy diet‚ and given expert medical
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and Herculaneum Geographical setting Pompeii and Herculaneum were located in Campania‚ southwest Italy near Bay of Naples. Herculaneum was a waterfront town situated on the coast of Bay of Naples 7km west of Mt Vesuvius‚ while Pompeii was slightly inland on the Sarno river‚ 9km southeast of Mt Vesuvius. Both towns were linked to Rome through sea and land routes. Natural features Campania was a fertile plain with two main rivers. Nearby there was a 15km wide series of craters
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a number of popular novels about The Mafia. Throughout Puzo’s career/lifetime‚ he is best known and recognized for his publishing of the popular novel‚ The Godfather. Puzo was born into a poor family from Pietradefusi‚ Province of Avellino‚ Campania‚ Italy living in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York. He served in the army during World War 2‚ and studied writing at the New School for Social Research and at Columbia University during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He worked at
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What were the reasons for the rise and fall of Julius Caesar? Changes within the structure of the Roman army set the early stage of the rise of Julius Caesar to power within the Roman Empire. The republican army of the early days was founded on the “Servian” constitution. The army was the army of the state; citizens served in it according to their wealth and were called to arms when needed. In the third century this began to change as campaigns increased in duration and moved farther and farther
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Comunicare‚ negociere şi relaţii publice 1. Conceptul de comunicare: cele două dimensiuni ale sale - axa orizontală a comunicării; - axa verticală a comunicării‚ - distincţia comunicare – comunicaţie (cuminecare şi comunicare: deosebiri şi întrepătrunderi) Bibliografie: -. Mihai DINU - Comunicarea – repere fundamentale‚ Ed. Orizonturi‚ Bucureşti‚ 2007. - Ion HAINEŞ - Introducere în teoria comunicării‚ Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine‚ 1998. - Corina RĂDULESCU - Comunicare şi protocol‚ Ed
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The early influences of Rome‚ according to the text‚ were the people of Etruia and Greece. It is said that it all started in the southernmost Etruscan centers[1]. These places‚ Caere‚ Tarquinii‚ Vulci‚ and Veii‚ were the first city-states to be formed. It wasn’t long before the great city of Rome would rise. In this essay‚ we will briefly comment on the founders of Rome and their influences. Taking each part of history step by step hoping to uncover the secrets of Rome’s first steps towards become
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"The Romans are often characterized as loving violent and cruel entertainment in the amphitheatre. It has been suggested that the games served the dual purpose of providing entertainment for the people and maintaining the political status quo." In today’s society‚ the killing of humans and animals usually means a jail term‚ and seeing someone die is not something people go and see for fun. Violence was glorified in Rome hundreds of years ago. All the crimes they committed were condoned‚ accepted
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“My dear Tacitus‚ You ask me to write you something about the death of my uncle so that the account you transmit to posterity is as reliable as possible. I am grateful to you‚ for I see that his death will be remembered forever if you treat it. He perished in a devastation of the loveliest of lands‚ in a memorable disaster shared by peoples and cities‚ but this will be a kind of eternal life for him. Although he wrote a great number of enduring works himself‚ the imperishable nature of your writings
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Earliest history There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14‚000 years ago‚ but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites.[21] Evidence of stone tools‚ pottery and stone weapons attest to about 10‚000 years of human presence. Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. While some archaeologists argue that Rome
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