However, many believe that due to clichés and a bad plot that the film should have never made it as far as it did. ... However, Maximus wants no part of power, and prefers to return to his farm where his wife and son await him. ... Despite Commodus's evil plot, Maximus escapes from his would-be assassins, and rides to his family's rescue. ... Aside from Gladiator's successful plot, various other characteristics of the film are just as impressive. ...

• Word Count: 726
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Upon winning his latest battle against barbarians and bringing peace to the Empire, Maximus craves nothing more than to return home and farm with his family. ... The plot was well thought out although not without its problems. ...

• Word Count: 663
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As the empire expanded, farms in Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa supplied Rome with many agricultural products (they worked on small plots). ... The vineyard would consist of the overseer (wife), ten farm-laborers or slaves, one ox heard, a donkey-man, a willow worker, a swine heard (fertilizer), two oxen and four donkeys (two of which were for the mill). ...

• Word Count: 2075
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

As the empire expanded, farms in Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa supplied Rome with many agricultural products. They worked on small plots. ... The vineyard would consist of the overseer (wife), ten farm-laborers or slaves, one ox heard, a donkey-man, a willow worker, a swine heard (fertilizer) , two oxen, and four donkeys (two of which were for the mill). ...

• Word Count: 2073
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fifty-thousand years ago, in the Stone Age, man wondered from southwest Asia and Africa while hunting game. 10,000 years ago man started to farm the land of Greece while others started to migrate to the new popular land. ... Farmers worked small plots, rotating crops to try to preserve the land's fertility and terracing rocky hillsides to create as much crop area as possible. ...

• Word Count: 1461
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School