A Brochure telling you all about Rome

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1 A Brochure telling you all about Rome The New You By Pete and evan

2 Welcome To Roma! Hello Reader, Today this brochure might make your day a good one in Ancient Rome. Let us say that your good day is on the line if you don t have this in your hand. This will have the entire guide to basics in ancient Rome. In this beautiful city, you will be able to see many things. For example The forum, the Arch of Caracalla at Volubilis, and the massive colosseum. Anyways,with that being said, here is a guide to ancient Rome. Enjoy! Sincerely, The Creators

3 Ancient Rome Architecture and Engineering Back when Rome was the strongest empire in the world, they adopted lots of arts and ways of building of different countries in the world and made it their own. For example, one of the architecture skills and arts they adopted were from the greeks. As you can see from the example, Roman art and Greek arts are very similar but not identical because as I said earlier they adopt it and make it their own but still, there are similarities that you can still find. An example of a kind of architecture the Romans adopted was the arch. The arch was originally used by the Egyptians, Greek and the Babylonians. After the Roman conquered Egypt, they took in the way of building to make their houses, stadium and large bath houses more stable. So if u were going to ever visit Rome back then, you can always tell that this place is Rome because of it's engineering skills and architecture style. Today, you can still find places that are influenced by the roman architecture and engineering. One of the places that have been influenced by Roman architecture was the Ben Thanh Market right here in Ho Chi Minh City. Ben Thanh Market s entrance has a shape of a vault which was used by the Romans and the inside of Ben Thanh Market has the shape of an arch.

4 Art When Caesar Augustus, the first emperor of Rome went up to take his throne, he changed Rome for forever. Rome started to get interested in arts from many different places. They were most interested in the statues and sculptures from Greece. Greece statues and sculptures were very unique. They were carved and built very carefully. They looked very realistic and the color was somehow always white. Caesar Augustus had very many statues of himself in a greek made way. He and the greek ways of building things were very fond of each other. Another kind of art that the Romans used was the Mosaic. Mosaic is a kind of art that are made by tiles. As you can see from the picture above, Public baths and private baths are made of mosaic designed tiles and people still used them today, for example, my bathroom. Through time, many countries and places still use Roman arts and people still think they look very beautiful and amazing. One of the arts used by the Romans that a lot of fancy hotels use today is the cameo. Cameo is a kind of art that a person's portrait is being drawn in a sort of mirror or frame and then they make the colors messy and then it becomes a piece of Roman Art.

5 Politics and government The Roman forum was where all the important buildings of Rome were located. One thing that went on in the forum was the senate. The senate was a group of 300 people that had the authority to create laws that had to be enforced. In these three hundred people were former Roman magistrates and the two chief magistrates who were called the consuls or praetors (praetor means leader). The consuls had the power to veto each other's decisions and to lead armies into battle. The 2 consuls were originally supposed to be patricians (the higher social class) but in 367 BC plebeians (the lower social class) were finally able to have the role as consul each year. And so it was decided. One consul each year was going to be a plebeian and one was going to be a patrician. Three really important types of people in the government system where: the emperor, the pontifex maximus, and the consuls. The ancient Roman motto was SPQR or Senatus Populusque Romanus. This means: The Senate and People of Rome. Roman government has influenced us in many ways. The Roman empire is long gone but its legacy still lives on in our buildings and how we handle our government. One example is the U.S. Senate. They use a similar system that the ancient Romans used when they held senate meetings. Today we still have a constitution in the United States of America. The constitution was what the ancient Romans had to keep each other in check with a set of laws called the 12 tables, or otherwise the constitution. Also the thought of laws to protect each other is an idea that originated in ancient Roman times.

6 Language In ancient Rome you will need to know how to speak Latin if you ever planning on staying alive while there. No one knows english or any other languages so You must know more about Latin so I am going to tell you about the language so you can get a background image of what should be happening. Also if you know the language you can speak to locals to get to take you to the colosseum! If you want to have some food then you need to be able to speak the language. Latin is the only language you need to know in ancient Rome. Many languages today are based on it and there are many words that have latin roots but we can t see them. I will give you some examples of these words in English then tell you the latin root word. For example the word villa in latin means house. In English, it means large country residence. Another word is obscura. This means black. And if you don t know what obscure means, it means not discovered. You know what the color black is like. OBSCURE. You don t know much about black because it is so lifeless. See the connection there? English has many similarities to the language Latin because it is based on it. You know everytime you see in a dictionary the words latin root? Well that means that the word that it is describing is based on a latin word.