In class today we talked about the story of sexton and his family . he lived a bad life he raped a women but if she did not do it he would of killed her.  He killed his father for the power of the country.

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In class today Colin and I have changed our project idea from the lyric video to we are going to build a catapulted and a small model of a coliseum. We are going to write two papers on them.  We did that most of class.

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             Circus maximums

• The Circus Maximus was a chariot racetrack in Rome first constructed in the 6th century BCE. The Circus was also used for other public events such as the Roman Games and gladiator fights and was last used for chariot races in the 6th century .
• The Circus Maximus, located in the valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills, is the oldest and largest public space in Rome and legend says that the Circus was originally laid out in the 6th century CE by the first Roman kings
• At its largest during the 1st century CE following its rebuilding after the fire of 64 CE, the Circus had a capacity for 250,000 spectators seated on banks 30 m wide and 28 m high. Seats were in concrete and stone in the lower two tiers and wood for the rest.
• The track, originally covered in sand, measured 540 x 80 m and had 12 starting gates fort the chariots.

Coliseum

• The arena was used to host spectacular public entertainment events such as gladiator fights, wild animal hunts and public executions from 80 CE to 404 CE.
• The theatre was spectacular even from the outside with monumental open arcades on each of the first three floors presenting statue-filled arches. The first floor carried Doric columns, the second Ionic and the third level Corinthian. The top floor had Corinthian pilasters and small rectangular windows. There were no less than eighty entrances, seventy-six of these were numbered and tickets were sold for each.
• Coliseum was approximately 45,000 seated and 5,000 standing spectators. One of the oldest depictions of the Coliseum appeared on the coins of Titus and shows three tiers, statues in the upper external arches and the large column fountain - the Meta Sudans - which stood nearby.
• Titus and Claudius were noted for shouting at the gladiators and other members of the crowd

Aqueducts

•  In antiquity, aqueducts were a means to transport water from one place to another, achieving a regular and controlled water supply to a place which would not otherwise have received sufficient water to meet basic needs such as irrigation of food crops and drinking fountains.
• The earliest and simplest aqueducts were constructed of lengths of inverted clay tiles and sometimes pipes which channeled water over a short distance and followed the contours of the land.

Roman forum 

•  A Forum was the main center of a Roman city. Usually located near the physical center of a Roman town, it served as a public area in which commercial, religious, economic, political, legal, and social activities occurred.
• Its placement in the central part of the city dates back to the time of the Tarquin kings, and it was seen fit to build a sewer, the cloca maxima , to provide proper drainage of the marshy land between the Esquiline, Capitoline, and Palatine Hills down to the Tiber River
• the land properly drained and dry, this area naturally became a central gathering location for the Etruscan inhabitants.

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Today we talked about how Greece enhanced the battle formations and the weapons they used in battle.  We also talked about the different battles that were around Rome. Hannibal was a pretty big ;art in the battles.

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Today in class we walked a lot more about the Greeks and there military and government.  We also listed to a song that Mr Schick came up with about Greeks. It was a good song. He came in in a hoodie and some glasses. It was so funny.

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In class today we went over some more of the Greece stuff.  We learned about Italy and all of the little huts aground the rivers and ocean where the Greeks could trade.

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In the class today we started talking about the project. I am with the Colin wolff.  James is not in the group this time.  We are going to make a trifold and a model of a coliseum .

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In class today we watched a video. They video was pretty weird to be honest.  At first I did not know what he had us watch it. But thy the end of the class I understood why we watched it.

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In class today we talked about the paper we got back.  We talked about proof reading and some of Mr Schick English teaching.  We learned that he did not like teaching grammar. We also talked about what we are going to talk about tin the future.

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Today in class we went over the test we took before spring break. I did not do to bad on it.  Then we got back our papers.  We did not get a good grade because someone in the group took most of there section off the internet.

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Today in class we took a test.  It seemed pretty easy.  There were only two little parts that I was confused on.  But that is all we did in class today folks.