Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Today we continued watch the BBC ancient Rome movie. On the second half of the movie, at the very beginning, Tiberius made a oath to barbarians in order to save his people. As the result, the conflict between Tiberius and the senates are more intense. Because of Tiberius's heroic behavior, most of the plebs are supported Tiberius against Octavius during the election. But eventually under the support of the senates, Octavius veto the Tiberius and win the election. After that Tiberius got killed by the senates and they threw his body into the river. I like this movie very much because it demonstrate the true historical event in Ancient Rome history. The only thing i feel bad is the British accent :(. It confuse me a lot during the movie.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Today we watched a BBC movie about Ancient Roman called " The rise and fall of an empire". Generally this movie is about the third Carthage war between Roman and Carthage, also talk about how Roman officers seize power by bully poor people. Personally i think the movie is very good because it mostly covered the stuff that we discussed during the class.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Today we talk about the government and the plebs of the Ancient Roman. Here are some notes:
- Roman government is similar to US government, but not exactly.
- They both have three branches: executive, legislative and judicial.
- Plebs had to serve in the army but could not hold office.
- Plebs were threatened with debt slavery
- Plebs had no legal rights.
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