https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc Learn About the Roman Empire en-us 2020-02-21 16:48:38 UTC 2020-02-25 00:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448696185 The Roman Empire stretched 1.77 square miles at it's height, reaching from Britain in the North West to Mesopotamia in the East.]]> 2020-02-21 16:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448696185 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448700384 The Romans used a system called the 12 Tables. This is very similar to our constitution. ]]> 2020-02-21 16:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448700384 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448702190 Roman Society was very hierarchical. The Patricians were the elite few, while most of the society was made up of the lower class plebeians.]]> 2020-02-21 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448702190 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448705520 The Romans traded beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin and wine. They primarily traded with partners in Spain, the Middle East, France, and North Africa.]]> 2020-02-21 17:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448705520 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448707766 The Romans invented many things, such as concrete, arches, and aqueducts to carry water to their cities. They excelled in sanitation and had planed out cities.]]> 2020-02-21 17:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448707766 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448709647 Some of the most important Romans were:
- Emperor Nero
- Marcus Cicero
- Tiberius Gracchus
- Emperor Constantine
- Julius Caesar]]> 2020-02-21 17:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448709647 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448712474 The Romans had many great achievements, including, their magnificent buildings, long-lasting roads, and ability to expand their empire across the known world.]]> 2020-02-21 17:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448712474 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448714157 The Romans got most of their culture from the Greeks. Some examples of Roman literature influenced by Greece are Virgil's Aeneid, Plutarch's Lives of Famous Men, and Horace's Odes.]]> 2020-02-21 17:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/448714157 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449837240 The Romans had an Emperor who had compete control of the empire. The senate remained, but it was more for show than for power.]]> 2020-02-24 23:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449837240 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449840010 The Roman economy was agricultural and slave based as most people in the empire were farmers. They relied heavily on trading as the produced very little on their own. The main goal was to feed their vast population]]> 2020-02-25 00:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449840010 kagw3 https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449841726 The influence of the Roman Empire can be seen today in our governments, language, architecture, and religion.]]> 2020-02-25 00:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kagw3/piuqfw7425cc/wish/449841726