Discuss the parelle of the Roman replubic and downfall of Athens.?
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who should I discuss it with?
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Below is a wonderful resource for understanding the Roman Empire... specifically for children!\n\nBest wishes!
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Hi, I found this site, about half way down the page is a heading reading "How the Romans Changed Britain".  It's a small section, but should house alot of information.  There's also information on the architecture brought north by the Romans.  This page should be pretty helpful.  Good luck.
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Athens or Sparta... Athens I think.
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The Athenian fifth century known as Golden Age, was mainly concentrated on the period of Pericles. The Athenian statesman, who dominated the political scene for forty years, is associated with the cultural activity that produced the great buildings on the Acropolis Hill. \nFind more imfo in site below
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Do you remember the battle of Jericho. they used sound to destroy a city. I'm sure it was quit annoying before the walls a came tumblin. This is appropriate. Why? Because we ARE the champions. :-)
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They had 3 Punic Wars with Roman and lost every one.  Many Carthaginians died from starvation during the latter part of the siege, while many others died in the final six days of fighting. When the war ended, the remaining 50,000 Carthaginians (perhaps a tenth of the original pre-war population) were sold into slavery. \n\nThe city was systematically burned for somewhere between 10 and 17 days. Then the city walls, its buildings and its harbor were utterly destroyed and the surrounding territory was supposedly sown with salt to ensure that nothing would grow there again.
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Mainly from "tribute" -- taxes.  The cities they took from the Persians paid annual tribute to Athens, greatly enriching the city.  The Athenian Greeks also used the conquered areas as colonies, giving land grants to Greek citizens in the conquered areas, as there was little land left in Attica (where Athens is) that wasn't already owned.\nThe tribute was in the form of grain, precious metals, and work products (leather, pottery, etc.) which Athens usually traded (except for the grain) to further enrich the city.
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I asked a question similar to this several weeks ago.  When looking at the similar patterns of history (such as the fall of Rome), it is apparent that the US will fall just as the Romans did.  \n\nAlthough many people in the US are unable to see how close they are to the greed, ego-centricism, denial and arrogance of ancient Roman culture, perhaps it will become more apparent when the society starts to fail and becomes lost.
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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this is the explanation of the downfall of Rome. they kept expanding the amount the land they occupied, much like how Hitler took over Europe one country at a time.\nwhen they took over each country, they had to use their forces to keep the peace. but if that country wasn't earning them a profit (through taxes, produce, etc), they spent more on controlling it than it was worth, so the areas started going bankrupt. the rich countries had to support the poor countries, which meant hard times for everyone.\nas the areas started going belly-up one by one, the savages around swooped in. the closer they got to Rome, the easier it was to attack the capitol. eventually, the city of Rome was set on fire by a band called the Visigoths. that marked the official end of the empire.
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The decline of the Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire, is an historical term of periodization which describes the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The term was first used in the 18th century by Edward Gibbon in his famous study The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but he was neither the first nor the last to speculate on why and when the Empire collapsed. It remains one of the greatest historical questions, and has a tradition rich in scholarly interest. In 1984, German professor Alexander Demandt published a collection of 210 theories on why Rome fell[1].\n\nThe traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustus, the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed. However, many historians question this date, and use other benchmarks to describe the "Fall". Why the Empire fell seems to be relevant to every new generation, and a seemingly endless supply of theories are discussed on why it happened, or indeed if it happened at all.\n\nMainstream theories\nMainstream theories about Rome's fall can be split into several general categories:\n\n"Declining empire" theories\nGenerally, these theories argue that the Roman Empire might have survived, but due to some combination of circumstances didn't. Some historians in this camp believe that Rome "brought it on themselves," i.e., ensured their own collapse by either misguided policies or degradation of character.\n\nVegetius\nThe historian Vegetius theorized and has recently been supported by the historian Arthur Ferrill that the Roman Empire declined and fell due to a combination of increasing contact with barbarians and the subsequent "barbarization", as well as a surge in decadence and the following lethargy. This resulted in complacency and ill-discipline among the legions, making it primarily a military issue.\n\nGibbon\nEdward Gibbon famously placed the blame on a loss of civic virtue among the Roman citizens. They gradually outsourced their duties to defend the Empire to barbarian mercenaries who eventually turned on them. Gibbon considered that Christianity had contributed to this, making the populace less interested in the worldly here-and-now and more willing to wait for the rewards of heaven.\n\nVon Mises\nLudwig von Mises argued that the inflation and the price controls promoted by the later emperors destroyed the economic system of the ancient world, this leading into hyperinflation, deterioration of the imperial economical basis and transfer to barter economy instead of a more advanced monetary economy. The theory assumes the hyperinflation combined with price controls undermined the economic system of the empire, and it simply went into bankruptcy, unable to pay its legions. The theory further argues that the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine empire) survived for over a millennium after the fall of the Western empire because of its smaller economic decline.\n\nRichta\nOn the other hand, some historians have argued that the collapse of Rome was outside the Romans' control. Radovan Richta holds that technology drives history. Thus, the invention of the horseshoe in Germania in the 200s would alter the military equation of pax romana, or a borrowing of the compass from its inventors in China in the 300s would also alter that equation.\n\n"Doomed from the start" theories\nIn contrast with the "declining empire" theories, historians such as Arnold J. Toynbee and James Burke argue that the Roman Empire itself was a rotten system from its inception, and that the entire Imperial era was one of steady decay of its institutions. In their view, the Empire could never have lasted. The Romans had no budgetary system. The Empire relied on booty from conquered territories (this source of revenue ending, of course, with the end of Roman territorial expansion) or on a pattern of tax collection that drove small-scale farmers into destitution (and on
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Greece was more powerful in the ancient world. Uniting East and West for the first and only time. There are still Greek speaking tribes in India(albe it only a few thousand) beacause of Alexander the Great. He crossed the Indus river and even founded present day Karachi, in Pakistan which was of course then named Alexandria.\nPersia was decimated by the Greeks and Greek soldiers took Persian wifes to spread the Greek culture. Another Greek city is Marsala, presently in France and known as Marsaille. Tactically they were brilliant and ***The Battle of Salamis was a testament to intelligence and tactics of the Acient Greeks***please look this up as it's a great account of a historical sea battle of the where the Persian Fleet in record numbers was decimated by the vastly inferior Greeks in terms of numbers and weaponry/ships.\n\nFrom India to France, no empire spread as far or ever will again.\nCrossing so much land on foot and conquering it all then succumbing to either poisoning or an illness. \n\nYour last three lines say it all...they had it all and the ancient greeks challenged, took it, burned the capital, and were accepted when they conquered generally, and made it better and spread their own vision to more of the world and this is evidenced today in numerous ways...it has to be greece easily in this one...\n\negypt vs greece would have been fairer...\n\n***additional - just read your additional comments - very good lol...
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roman aquiducts or the colluseam and greek temples (the parthenon)
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/ROME/daily.html\n\nhttp://www.thecolefamily.com/italy/pompeii/\n\ngive those a shot...Good luck!!
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire#Legacy for information on the legacy of the Roman Empire or just look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire \n\nGood Luck!!!