Anthony's Blog One Western Civilization

I was not in school again today for the third time because I was sick.

Yesterday I thought we didn’t have class, so I didn’t post one of these, but I was absent and not in shool yesterday.

Worksheet: 1) The people of the Roman town of Pompeii were killed by a volcano during the second century B.C.  2) The great Roman epic, the Aeneid , was written byVirgil, in which it spent him ten years to write.  3) The accurate histories of Rome,  Annals and Histories , were written by Tacitus. 4) The family languages that developed from the Latin language are called Romance languages. 5) The design of the Roman aqueducts made significant use of the architectural structure of the arch. 6) The art form called bas-relief is a type of sculpture. 7) All of the following were important principles Roman law EXCEPT for the idea that all citizens have the right to freedom of religion. The important principles from this question were that a person was not guilty until proven guilty, actions are punishable, thoughts are not, and that all citizens have the right to protection under the law. 

I don't think the United States will fall anytime soon, but in this scenario it is. The United States is one of the most advanced countries at the moment, so it doesn't seem likely that we would. Our country is advanced in a lot of different departments; military, technology, and economics. Since our country has one of the best militaries with some of the best advancements, I don't feel that this will be our downfall, unless of course North Korea or Russia decided to nuke us or something. I know that in case we at any point pissed Russia off, they have missiles or nukes that'll take out our main military bases in a matter of hours. This would be the only thing that I could see our downfall being from our military. Our technology is advanced too, such as creating new machines to do harder tasks for us or creating machines to take us places faster such as the plane, and now we are trying to build trains and subways that get to far places in a matter of an hour or so. The ...

Page 176 (Question #1, 3, 4, 5) 1) The economy soon suffered from inflation , in which there is a drastic drop in the value of of money coupled with a rise in prices. Mercenaries  were recruited by the Roman government because the Roman Army became less disciplined and less loyal. Diocletian  was a strong-willed army leader who became emperor and tried to slow the decline of the Empire. Constantinople  was the new capital of the Empire and was located in the East. Attila  was the first chieftain of the Huns in which he conquered the west of the Roman Empire. 3) The main internal causes of the empire's decline was that the Roman Army became less disciplined and loyal and the inflation. 4) Diocletian succeeded in preserving the Empire by dividing the Empire up and creating a large army and fixing the inflation problems. 5) So many Germanic tribes began invading the Roman Empire because a fierce group Mongol nomads moved into the region and began destroying all ...

Questions 1, 3, 4, 5: 1) Jesus  was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea and he later grew up teaching things about God and performing miracles in which he claimed to be the Messiah, or Israel's Savior. The apostles  were the twelve men that followed Jesus' teachings and shared the good news of the Lord with people like Jesus. Paul  was a Jew who never met Jesus and spent his early life as a man who was an enemy of Christianity, until God appeared to him in a blinding vision in which he saw the way of the Lord. The Diaspora  was the dispersal of the Jews when they were driven from their homeland into exile. Constantine  was the first Roman emperor to allow Christianity in which he ended their persecution. The bishop  was a priest who supervised several local churches. Peter  was the first bishop in which Jesus said that he was the "rock" on which the first Christian Church would be built. Peter was also dubbed the first pope  or the father of ...