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10 Cool Facts About Daily Life in Ancient Rome

2025-05-03T21:02:00.000-07:00

Daily life in Ancient Rome was full of surprises! Romans lived in a busy world with weird habits and clever ideas. Want to know what it was like? Here are 10 cool facts about daily life in Ancient Rome that will amaze you!1. Rich Romans Ate Lying DownIn daily life in Ancient Rome, fancy people ate meals lying on couches. They had special dining rooms called triclinia where they relaxed while

9 Ancient Athens and Sparta Projects and Activities

2017-01-04T22:03:00.000-08:00

Athens and Sparta. Sparta and Athens. Which city-state do you prefer? If you could go back right now to Ancient Greece and be either a wealthy citizen of Athens or a Spartan general, which would you pick? Teaching about Athens and Sparta is one of my favorite times of the school year. It is also one of the very clear memories I have from when I was learning about Ancient

13 Project Ideas for Early Greece - The Ancient Mycenaeans

2017-01-03T06:49:00.001-08:00

After a few days of the trading, bull-leaping, artistic Minoans, we come to the raiding, Trojan-horse building Mycenaeans. Here are some ideas for projects and activities on the Mycenaeans! Remember, a project can be short! I call them mini-projects. Projects can be graded or not. Whatever the case, projects should cause the doer to get more engaged and interested in the

11 Project Ideas - Early Ancient Greece - The Minoans

2017-01-02T09:12:00.001-08:00

I always start my Greece unit with a look at the Ancient Minoans. They are a fascinating civilization that helped shape the culture we see later on in Ancient Greece. Here are a few project ideas for learning and showing learning about the Ancient Minoans. By the way, a project does not have to last days or weeks. I like mini-projects (some might call them activities) that

37 Project Ideas - Geography of Ancient Greece

2017-01-01T21:32:00.000-08:00

Years ago I wrote a post on Ancient Mesopotamia school project ideas broken down by Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. I don't know what's taken me so long, but I finally decided it's time to come up with a list of projects for Ancient Greece! Rather than making one big long post with all the project ideas, I'm going to do a series of posts, each one based on a different topic. This

What were the 5 Themes of Geography of Ancient Greece?

2016-12-17T21:28:00.001-08:00

Water, mountains, and peninsulas. That's all there is to the geography of ancient Greece, right? Well, those are a big part of Greece's physical geography, but they don't tell the whole story. How did ancient Greece's geography affect culture? How did the ancient Greeks adapt to their geography? How did they alter it? Where the heck is Greece, anyway? In order to get a

Star Wars and the 5 Themes of Geography?

2016-12-13T08:57:00.000-08:00

Would you rather eat unsweetened Bantha fodder and wash it down with blue milk than hear any more about the 5 Themes? The 5 Themes of Geography can get old because after you apply them once or twice, it’s the same thing every time. Maybe you did examples of the five themes for your city. Ok… Then maybe you did examples from another world city. Mm hmm… These are important exercises,

What was a city-state in Ancient Greece?

2016-12-07T06:33:00.002-08:00

Imagine that the city you live in is its own country. It has its own king, queen, or other leader. It has its own laws. It has its own traditions and ways of doing things that might be quite a bit different from the city down the road or on the other side of the mountain. Your city might trade with nearby towns and cities and form alliances with them, or your city might go to war

5 Themes of Geography Made Easy! Definitions - Examples - Infographic

2016-08-15T20:44:00.000-07:00

Geography is the study of Earth. That's a big subject. It's almost too big to even think about. Never fear! The 5 Themes of Geography are here to help us with that problem! What are the 5 Themes of Geography? I’m glad you asked! Let’s start off with some definitions. Don't worry about writing it all down. I've put an infographic below that ties it all together

Ancient Roman Food : Brain pudding, anyone?

2016-02-26T22:04:00.001-08:00

For us food is more than just fuel for the body. We center many of our social events around food. We time our days around our meals. Some people make food their whole life by becoming chefs, restaurant owners, food critics, and gourmets. Food was an important part of daily life in Ancient Rome too, and similar to our culture, the food consumed was different depending on

Early Roman Government and the Pater Familias

2016-02-24T21:18:00.002-08:00

The early Roman government was a monarchy with a hint of democracy, and it had its roots in a very important idea of Roman family culture - the pater familias. The pater familias -- Latin for family father -- was the basic structure of the Roman family and society, and it became the basic structure of the Roman government in its different forms from the earliest days of Roman kings,

Where did democracy begin?

2016-01-25T21:08:00.001-08:00

The textbook answer to the question, "Where did democracy begin?" is that it began in Athens in Ancient Greece. I think there is a lot more to it than that, but let's look at Greek democracy (and compare it to ours) first. Greek democracy was very different from American democracy today. Greek democracy was a direct democracy. All of the citizens (males only - sorry ladies)

Roles of Men and Women in Ancient Greece

2016-01-23T21:31:00.000-08:00

The roles of men and women in Ancient Greek society differed depending on city-state, social class, and situation. Male dominance over women was the norm, though. The Ancient Greek attitude of male dominance and negativity toward women goes all the way back to the writings of Homer and to the Greek myths. In the Iliad, who caused the Trojan War? Helen, an unfaithful wife who ran off with Prince

Geography of Ancient Greece and its Effects on Culture

2016-01-04T05:14:00.001-08:00

What was Greece’s geography like? How did geography affect Ancient Greek civilization? Here’s a mystery box that will help us answer these questions. The contents of this box shaped Greek culture. It holds secret weapons that helped Greece defeat the almost unstoppable Persian Empire. The items in this box also helped lead to the fall of Ancient Greece.

Ancient Mesopotamia - Babylon

2015-07-25T05:00:00.000-07:00

In a few months when the spring floods arrive, it will be very different. For now though it is a peaceful scene. Boats laden with trade goods float lazily down the Euphrates River. Beside the river, children play in the shade beneath date palms that wave gently in the breeze. Farmers work in their fields, finishing up the barley harvest and praising the gods for the bounty they provided.

Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia

2015-07-24T16:45:00.000-07:00

Religion was an important part of daily life of ancient cultures going all the way back to the earliest hunter-gatherers. Why are we here? Why do the rivers flow? Where do the animals come from? What is that bright thing in the sky that warms us? Questions such as these led to the beginnings of organized religion. The Ancient Mesopotamians had one of the first organized religions ever, and

Stone Age Inventions

2015-07-21T05:00:00.000-07:00

The old saying, “necessity is the mother of all invention,” certainly applies to inventions in the Stone Ages. After all, Stone Age people were preoccupied with simply trying to find food, water, shelter, and survive the many dangers they faced from day-to-day. So, all of their inventions were tied to survival. How can we become more efficient hunters? How can we gather wild foods more

Stone Age Farming

2015-07-20T05:00:00.000-07:00

The earliest crops that were farmed in the Neolithic or New Stone Age were likely barley, wheat, peas, and flax. This probably took place first in Mesopotamia, India, and Egypt. Farming then also began in China (rice) and North and South America (corn, beans, and tomatoes, potatoes), and central and southern Africa. One of the keys to farming was fertile soil. That is why the earliest

Stone Age Clothes

2015-07-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

A Stone Age (Paleolithic) woman worked on a mammoth hide to prepare it to be used as clothing or a blanket. After scraping the meat off of the hide, she rubbed the animal’s brains on the hide to “tan” it. Tanning is a process, still used today, by which animal hides are preserved and turned into leather. Tanned hides last much longer than untanned ones. Bone or antler was used to make pins

What is the Paleolithic Age?

2015-07-18T05:00:00.000-07:00

The Paleolithic Age is a time period from prehistory when humans and their ancestors primarily used stone tools. The word Paleolithic comes from the Greek words for old and stone, hence the term Old Stone Age. This period started about 2.5 million years ago and lasted until about 10,000 years ago. For most of human history, we were Paleolithic people. The “Lithic” or Stone Ages are often

Economic Geography - a definition

2015-07-17T05:00:00.000-07:00

One can tell just from looking at a satellite image of Mesopotamia that it is mostly desert. A climate map tells us that most of the region is considered arid or semi-arid, just what we would expect. One way to look at Mesopotamia’s climate is to examine different factors that affect climate. Latitude