topic 3 -- Early World History, Level I

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Date Posted: 08:11:25 03/09/02 Sat
Author: Mike Lesnaik
Subject: topic 3

The reason that the Romans were so successful was that they had such a good government, they were good fighters, and they were intelligent. The Romans were also good in making statues. They performed many comedy shows for the poor and landless people. They also designed very good swords so that it would leave a wound that would not be easy to make stop bleeding. Romans even had pools. There was the Calarium which was a pool that was hot. The pool was heated by having fire under it. The fire heated up sand which was directly under the pool. Then there was the trepidation which was a warm pool and then there was the frigidarium which was cold.
Rome lasted about 1200 years form the time Rome was founded until the time Romulus Augustus, last western emperor was defeated.
The Roman government was very well organized. It was organized so well that it barely even matter who the ruler was. The government would practically run by itself. It was always being adjusted so that everyone was happy because if everyone was happy then nobody would rebel against the government.
The Roman�s were great fighters because they were disciplined and trained very hard. The way the Roman soldeirs were disciplined was very effective. One out of every ten people were killed. This was called decimation. Children were raised by being taught that their city comes first and themselves after. Another very good thing about their government was that they kept track of all their laws by writing all of them down. The Romans got revenge on anyone that messed with them. The Romans won many battles and conquered many places. Rome had one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
The Romans were very intelligent. They always would make adjustments for anything that made people unhappy. They even had comedy shows for the people that were poor or landless. This made everyone happy. But since there was so much poor people that needed food, and since Hannibal destroyed all the crop fields, many people were starving to death. Rome also lost power over some city-states. One of the main reasons that Rome had its downfall was that Rome got so powerful that they began to take things for granted and not pay attention to their flaws. Many people began to argue over power which caused a civil war to break out. The civil war helped very much in bringing Rome to its downfall. Then in 476 A.D. came the fall of Western Empire's last emperor, Romulus Augustulus. After the fall of Rome other cultures took over.
This relates to modern civilization because if you compare this to the united states it is very similar. The united states is very in danger of a downfall because we are always helping other countries in war and never thinking about ourselves. I also think that since we have been declared the toughest country to beat in a war, we have taken for granted how powerful we are. For example when the tragedy of September 11th happened, nobody was ready and everyone panicked. If we had thought more about ourselves and paid more attention to what our enemies were doing we might have had a chance to prevent the tragedy from happening.

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