(Clipart licensed from the Clip Art Gallery, Schooldiscovery.com)
First of all, you need to know that ancient Roman society was dangerous.
You could be eaten by lions.
You could be sent to gladiator school.
You could be sold into slavery and sent to the mines (where you would not live long).
If you were a soldier you were expected to build roads, fight in battles and cart around 40kg or more on your back during long marches.
If you were Julius Caesar you could be stabbed by a whole lot of senators just when you thought you had reached a state of unassailable power.
Then of course, if you lived in Pompeii in 79AD, you could have a heap of ash fall on you and expire in the ruins of your city, only to be discovered and pored over hundreds of years later by nosey archaeologists.
SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH NOSEY?
Show me how nosey you can be by reading the BBC website (links below) on what happened at Pompeii and then filling in the “Close the Gap” exercise at the link below that.
Then (and only then) you can go to gladiator school yourself!
BBC Website – Introduction to the story of Pompeii
Everyday life in Pompeii – click on each of the pictures in this gallery to find out more
Architecture in Pompeii
CLOSE THE GAP EXERCISE
A Roman aqueduct (they were clever as well as brutal)
http://uk1.hotpotatoes.net/ex/35356/NQVEFOFY.php
Gladiator: Dressed to Kill Game
Good luck from your nosey teacher (no comments, please),
Ros.
