Ancient Rome! Exploring the Culture, People & Ideas of This Powerful Empire

Ancient Rome! Exploring the Culture, People & Ideas of This Powerful Empire (A Kaleidoscope Kids Book) by Avery Hart and Sandra Gallagher

Join the parade of history in search of the people, places, culture, and virtues that are the legacy of this powerful and long-lived empire!

See how wisdom and ignorance co-existed in the Roman peoples. Search the globe to find Rome's legacy alive and well today. Discover how much Latin you are speaking today (without a single Latin class)! And ask yourself what we can do better to "make it right" for all people.

• Make history real! — Build a Roman-styled working aqueduct; construct a Roman-styled highway with drainage; make a stone triumphal arch; reconstruct the Forum Romanum (in a pizza box!); turn a legend into a rap; set up a Senate; write your own "Twelve Tables of Law"; spend some denarii; put on a pantomime; and open your own fast-food popina!
• Meet the people! — Meet Romulus and Remus (sibling rivalry at its worst!); see how Lucretia's sad fate changed history; write free-verse in the style of Horace and Ovid; compare the power of Papa then to now; meet the numina, the lares, and the penates (spirits); cheer for Spartacus in the Struggle of the Orders; keep a Commentarii Dierum (journal) a la Julius Caesar.
• Think about... Why Roman history is so important to us now; what patriotism means to you; how global unity is faring today; how the early tribes enriched Rome; how violence as entertainment - then and now - affects people; your government compared with the Roman Republic; the lessons of Hannibal and King Pyrrhus; what we can conclude from the Fall of Rome.

Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 96
• Book Size: 10" x 10"
• Book Type: Paperback
• Recommended Ages: 7 through 14
• ISBN 10: 1885593600
• ISBN 13: 978-1885593603

Awards:

• Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award

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This book makes learning about history fun, in an interactive, hands-on way.