over the crushing vines- over the desolate streets- over the amphitheater itself- far and wide- with many a mighty splash in the agitated sea- fell that awful shower... Because of that, the houses of Pompeii have given us a treasure of mural paintings, the most complete record of the changing fashions in interior decoration in the entire ancient world. ...
This statement is also relevant to ancient world where major conflicts were cultural and religious. ... Rome is situated in the central Mediterranean sea . The villages adjacent to Tiber river became a powerful city, conquering the rest of Italy and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. ... He makes these differences obvious throughout as the location of the play switches quickly between the two worlds. ... Shakespeare shows his sympathy with Egyptian world and presents Romans as stern that lack emotion and sympathy. ...
The Collapse of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire began its reign over the Eastern World in 753 B.C when Romulus and Remus founded their great city. ... With such a skillful army they had captured all of the lands around the Mediterranean Sea including the northern part of Africa. ... A great historian once wrote, "If a man were called upon to fix in the history of the world when the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed for the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. " Commudus was the son of Marcus Aurel...
Accounts Livy, "Not without good reason did gods and men choose this spot as the site of a city, with its bracing hills, its [spacious] river by means of which the produce of inland countries may be brought down and inland supplies obtained; a sea near enough for all useful purposes, but not so near as to be exposed to danger from foreign fleets; a district in the very center of Italy, in a word, a position singularly adapted by a nature for the growth of a city." ... He extended Rome's boundary to the sea and built the Pons Sublicus, the firstbridge across the Tiber. ...
Hannibal Barca, being of the Lion's Brood as they were called1, was sworn to vengeance of Rome at the age of nine2 by his father Hamlicar Barca before embarking for the conquest of Spain. He was always driven by this one desire: to rid Carthage of the Romans. He never had a unified army of one ra...
