Early in its history, the city was ruled(统治) by Greece. Later, the rule of Rome. At that time, there were cafes, shops and even in the city. Around 12,000 people lived there. In 79CE, a volcano(火山) near the city erupted(爆发). The cloud of ash, rock and gas high into th...
•RhinelandreferstothewestbankofRhine.Thefirst:Gaels,whoselanguageisstillspokeninScotland.(750B.C)Thesecond:Britons,fromwhomWelsharemainlydescended.(500B.C.)Thethird:Gaul(100B.C.)2.TheRomanOccupation –In55and54B.C.,BritainwastwiceinvadedbyRomanstroopsunderJuliusCaesar.–ItwasConqueredbytheRomans...
Whereas Greece had grown from scores of scattered cities, Rome grew from one single organism. While the Greek world had expanded along the Mediterranean seas lanes, the Roman world was assembled by territorial conquest. Of course, the contrast is not quite so stark: in Alexander the Great the...
They conquered and ruled England for a quarter of a century. Then, following the expulsion驱逐 of the Danes, the Normans invaded England in 1066. They defeated the English troops and William, the Duke of Normandy, was crowned加冕 as King of England, which marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon...
Areas of what is now Scotland were never conquered by the Romans, and the Emperor Hadrien built a wall in the north of England to keep out the Picts (ancestors of the Scottish people). Included in the wall were a number of forts. Parts of Hadrien’s Wall, including the forts of Ho...
Greek Architecture希腊建筑 It has been said that captive Greece conquered victorious Rome, and, as we have seen, the Romans adopted many ideas in painting and sculpture from the Greeks.Roman temples were also strongly influenced by Greek prototypes. Greek columns were built in three...
Lloyd Jones in preparation for theFifty Penguin Yearsexhibition and book to mark the 50th anniversary of Penguin Books in 1985. The material was re-catalogued by Rachel Hassall (2009) for the Penguin Archive Project, University of Bristol Library. Additional material has since been added by us....
directions from Rome. Some of these early roads were of elaborate construction. For example, an Appian Way③ , built southward about 312 BC, illustrates one of the procedures used by the Romans. First a trench was excavated to suc Romans与放热在许多方向的路一起一个广泛的系统跳起他们的帝国...
Guatemala had been conquered by Ahuitzotl, the eighth king of Mexico, who died in 1502. Regarding the ruins at Palenque, says Baron Humboldt, "they are evidences of the taste of the Toltec and Aztec race for the ornaments of architecture. We are absolutely ignorant of their antiquity, but...
英语翻译之前的没发出.The Romans bound their empire together with an extensive system of roads from Rome.Some of these early roads were of elaborate construction.First a trench was excavated to such a depth that the finished surface would be