Today in West Civ class learned all about Rome and who settled there. The Etruscans came from the north central part of the peninsula. Metal works, artists, and architects. There were two myth foundations, and they were Virgil's Aeneid, plus the story of Remus and Romulus. The Greeks also settled in Rome, they has many colonies around the Mediterranean sea. Romans borrowed ideas from the Greeks, such as religious beliefs, alphabet, a lot of their art, military techniques, and weaponries. The Latin's were the first to settle on Rome, descendent of Indo-Europe's. They settled on the banks of the Tiber River, situated so trading ships but not war fleets could navigate as far as Rome, but no further. A commercial port, but not attack and built on seven hills.

Today in West Civ class we continued to work on our project. Sammi and I are going to get together outside of school to do our part of the project. We are in charge of doing all of the research and then make a poster board with all of our information on it. I enjoy this project so far because I am already learning a lot about Rome.

Today in class researched Circus Maximus , Coliseum, Aqueducts, Roman Forum.
Coliseum
-Fire in 31 BC, destroyed the wooden structure, three fires
-Used for events such as processions of gladiator combats, but most days only chariot races
-Last race was held in 549 AD
-Located between the Aventine and Palatine hills

Circus Maximus
-Known as the Flavian Amphitheatre
-Located east of the Roman Forum
-One of the most famous monument
-Built nearly 2000 years ago for hosting violent gladiator games
 -620 by 513 feet

Aqueducts
-Basically a water bridge
-A water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water
-Built from a combination of stone and brick
-special volcanic cement pozzuolana
-Hard to build

Roman Forum
-People first began meeting in forum around 500 BC
-Central area of city
-Site was originally an Etruscan burial ground
-first developed in the 7th century BC

Today in West Civ class we got the whole class period to work on our group project. Sammi, Tucker, Luke, and I were very productive because we broke the work up into two groups. Sammi and I are going to do the researching and typing part of the project then Tucker and Luke are going to do the building part of the project. But this does not mean we are going to leave the boys and let them do it all by themselves, we are all going to work on it all together. We finally decided that we are going to build the Coliseum then do a presentation on it and tell the class about it.

Today in West Civ we continued to go over the Rome power point. I learned that the Latin's first came to the shores of the Tiber River, they drained a swamp. The tyrant named Tarquin Proud was like a kind, he pushed all of his people around. He told everyone what to do and exactly how to do it. They combined a democracy, aristocracy, and Monarchy. Roman legion, improved pllalapx, century 80 men. Punic wars, conflict of passage and trade, three different series of battles. Rome won the first battle against cartage. Got 100's of elephants and found men along the way to attack Italy.

I was not in West Civ class today because I came into school late do to a doctors appointment but I will get the notes from another classmate.

Today we started the Rome powerpoint and took notes on it. Etruscans, Greeks, and Latins were the first ones to settle on the pensisula. The Greeks had a lot of colonies along the Tiber River. There were twin brothers named Remus and Romulus and there mom was named Realasiva. She had the twins with the God named Mars, but they abanded the babies in a river to die. The river carried them to safety and a "she wolf" found them near the river and took them in herself. She raised both of the twins and even breast fed them. When the brothers got older, Romulus was trying to make a city but in the process he killed his twin brother so he would win the city. He ended up getting the city and naming it after himself.