Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Ancient Rome and present U.S.A have a lot in. common. In ancient Rome there are attacks from nomadic tribes. In then U.S there are attacks from terrorists. Second Rome hires mercenaries or people that fight only for the money. Here in U.S.A we also hire mercenaries to fight in the wars Third in Rome and the U.S.A have infatuation and the value of money is going down. Also in Rome the empire grows too big to control. This is the only thing that they don’t have in common. Last but not least in Rome there is a big gap between the rich and the poor. The same thing happens in the U.S money. I think that if the U.S. continues to keep making the same mistakes that Ancient Rome did we will fall. Obviously I hope we don’t fall because the outcome could be severely indescribable in my mind. I think that if we start fixing our problems rather than contributing to it we won’t make the same mistakes as Ancient Rome. For starters, we should solve this money problem we have and just pay back all the money we owe.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Hellenistic Culture

Hellenistic culture is 3 different cultures mixed together. Hellenistic culture started by a king named Philip II. Conquered ancient Greece because they where separate city states. He was killed by his own bodyguard with a knife when walking in front of them. Then the other bodyguards tackled him down and killed him. Then his son Alexander took over and he said that he is going to finish his father’s job and conquer the world. He conquered everything from Egypt to India; he made the second largest empire in the world.

Neryluz & Jeffrey