frescoes may represent the continuation of a much older tradition‚ acquired or inherited from Greek colonists of the 8th century BC.[9] Livy dates the earliest Roman gladiator games to 264 BC‚ in the early stages of Rome’s First Punic War against Carthage. Decimus Iunius Brutus Scaeva had three gladiator pairs fight to the death in Rome’s "cattle market" Forum (Forum Boarium) to honor his dead father‚ Brutus Pera. This is described as a munus (plural: munera)‚ a commemorative duty owed the manes of
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Self-Mastery Quiz —The Roman Republic 1. The name of the ancient ancestors of the Romans who settled in 12 self-governing city-state kingdoms‚ spoke Latin‚ and introduced the arch in architecture were the _____________________________. 2. The most powerful social class in Rome was the one made up of the large landholding aristocrats who could trace their blood lines back to the original founders of Rome called ________________________. 3. All Roman citizens that were not of aristocratic
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different from other cultures government. B: The political institutions were common in the classical Mediterranean because Greece never actually had a real democracy. Only the rich‚ white males were able to vote. There was actually a roman republic. Carthage had a monarchy government before the Romans ended up destroyed it.
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Virgil’s epic‚ the Aeneid‚ is a story about the “true” origins of the Romans that by borrowing other mythological stories to set the stage for his contemporary audience. Virgil’s main source for this book is from Homer’s Iliad which talks about the fall of Troy‚ but also talks about the power of fate in the world. Achilles was the protagonist in the story‚ a man fighting his emotions about whether he should fight and die or hide and live this struggle lasts through the entire story protracting the
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INTRODUCTION Augustine’s Confessions is not an autobiography in the literal sense‚ but is rather an autobiographical framework for a religious‚ moral‚ theological‚ and philosophical text1. Augustine explores the nature of God and sin within the context of a Christian man’s life. The work can thus be viewed as both a discursive document and a subjective personal story. It is one of the most influential books in the Catholic religion‚ apart from the Bible. Augustine wrote of his life and education
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Why I am a Catholic Sola Scriptura Sola Scriptura and Unity Unity among Christians was clearly one of the chief concerns of Christ (John 17) and the Apostles (ex. 1 Cor. 1‚ 10; Eph. 4). This unity is not only a spiritual reality‚ but a physical one as well‚ for Jesus teaches that the oneness of the Church would be a witness to the world (Jn. 17:23). I have come to realize that Protestantism‚ in principle‚ cannot unify Christians. Sola scriptura effectively makes unity in moral code
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dealt with in different times. Both exerts show different forms of conversion‚ a person’s loyalty to their God‚ and the social punishment that a Christian had to endure during these times. In 202 CE‚ a young woman named Perpetua was arrested in Carthage for being a Christian. She was taken and imprisoned along with her young child and brother. In her own words she said there were‚ “crowed conditioned and rough treatment by the soldiers and the heat was unbearable”. They were seen as the enemy because
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AP WORLD STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Before Civilization Around 10‚000 years ago‚ during the Neolithic Age‚ humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Although farming is often harder than hunting and gathering‚ agriculturalists‚ because of their capacity to increase their population‚ expanded across much of the planet at the expense of hunter-gatherers
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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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What does Aeneas learn in Book II of the Aeneid? Book II of Virgil’s epic takes place in Carthage where Aeneas recounts his exploits at Troy to the assembled Carthaginians and their queen‚ Dido‚ as well as the surviving Trojans. Aeneas’ tale fits into roughly three sections; the discovery of the wooden horse and Sinon‚ the ensuing battle of Troy‚ and finally Aeneas’ flight from the fallen city. This is clearly a distressing subject for Aeneas who says “no man could speak of such things and not
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