【题文】 The ancient Romans drank 47 million gallons of wine every year: a bottle aday for every man, woman, and child in the city. Wine was consumed by both therich and the poor, drunk at every meal. Even slaves were given a weekly amount of 5 quarts each in order to preserve th...
The Romans invented hydraulic mining, or at least it’s earliest form known as ground sluicing. They diverted rivers in order to erode and dig the ground in surface mines to quarry materials like gold at sites in Wales (Britain) and Spain.Innovations...
a. the civilized peoples or cultures of antiquity, as the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Egyptians. b. the writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient times, esp. those of Greece and Rome. 8. a very old or aged person. [1300–50; Middle English auncien < Anglo-French; Old French...
Battle of Pydna,Pydna- a major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC; resulted in the downfall of the ancient Macedonian kingdom Balkan Peninsula,Balkans- a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range ...
The Romans had little concern over either Jewish or Christian practices on their own; it was their steadfast dedication to their own gods that would eventually lead to problems. The relationship of early Christianity to the Jewish faith, and the foundation of the cult deeply rooted in a people...
Pieces of the arena(舞台) were all over the ground. Then many people took the fallen stones or stones from the seating areas. They used them to repair houses and churches.Many years have gone by since the fight games were cancelled. The Romans of those days were not connected to the ...
of Roman Culture. Romans thought they had united the world. But after centuries of conquest and glory, resentment festered within. Repression and chaos replaced tolerance and order; and the gap between the wealthy and the poor had become unimaginably wide. Indeed ninety-five percent of the ...
1Just like today,ancient Romans' hairstyles changed according to fashion.All free-born Roman women grew their hair long as short hair was a sign of slavery,or the state of being a slave. (In fact,slaves,who were owned by someone and had no freedom,worked in all areas of Roman life exc...
symbol of the pine points towards the highest level of spiritual illumination possible, something that was recognized by nearly all the ancient cultures around the world. It can be found in monuments and art, including those produced by the Indonesians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans...
the Romans not only passed on territorial administration, but also left a legacy of social and cultural references, such as family, language, law and municipal government, whose assimilation definitively placed the peninsula in the Greco-Roman world at first, and then later in the Judeo-Christian...