Blogging homework due Friday, 30th June
What can you find out about the Romans?
Next week, in Literacy and History, we will be learning about the Romans. Your homework this week is to research the Romans in order to answer the following questions:
1) What were Roman roads like? Why did they build them? Can you find any examples of Roman roads that still exist today?
2) How did the Romans stay healthy? What can you find out about Roman gymnasiums and baths? What is an aqueduct and how was it useful?
3) How did the Romans organise their army?
4) What were Roman forts used for? Can you find any examples of Roman forts that still exist today? What and where is Hadrian's Wall?
I hope you have fun finding out about the Romans!
1]Romans built very good roads.All there roads were remarkably straight.The Romans knew that the shortest distance from one place to anther is a straight line.It was important the Romans army to be able to move soldiers and all there baggage around the country.
ReplyDelete2]Often Romans were using water to keep them clean.They also used the toilets,sewers and public baths.
3]The army was organised in a very simple way:5000 legionaries(Romans Citizens who were in the army)would form a Legion.
4]Each fort was erected with a wide ditch,and also included stockade or defensive barrier made of timber post or stone.
Roman roads were very straight with no curves.It was important for the roman army could move there luggage to one place to another.Here are some examples of roman roads Ermine street and Fosse way.
ReplyDeleteThe Romans introduced the first ever system of public health.They found the link between cleanness and good health John wood was the person who built the romans bath, they make public toilets.Most people bathe in communal baths.
The roman army was organised in a very simple way: 5000 Legionaries (Roman Citizens who where in the army) would form a legion.The Legion would be split into centuries (80 men) controlled by a centurion. The centuries would then be divided into smaller groups which different jobs to preform.
The Roman forts are used as military camps to defend the empire.
BY ARMAAN
1)It was important for the Roman army to be able to move soldiers and all their baggage around the country. They built roads as straight as possible, in order to travel as quickly as they could. Winding roads took longer to get to the place you wanted to go and bandits and robbers could be hiding around bend.
ReplyDelete2)Water, hygiene and health constitute an interesting triangle and have strong relations to each other. The Roman bath culture is often seen as a proof that the Romans were tidy people. But hygiene as such was not an issue although the Romans did believe that illness had a natural cause and that bad health could be caused by bad water and sewage. So some measures were taken to improve the public health system. Bathing was one of the most common daily activities in Roman culture, and was practiced across a wide variety of social classes. Though many contemporary cultures see bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, bathing in Rome was a communal activity. While the extremely wealthy could afford bathing facilities in their homes, most people bathed in the communal baths thermae. In some ways, these resembled modern-day spas. The Romans raised bathing to a high art as they socialized in these communal baths. Communal baths were also available in temples such as The Imperial Fora. Courtship was conducted, as well as sealing business deals, as they built lavish baths on natural hot springs. Such was the importance of baths to Romans that a catalogue of buildings in Rome from 354 AD documented 952 baths of varying sizes.
3)The army was organised in a very simple way: 5000 Legionaries (Roman Citizens who were in the army) would form a Legion. The Legion would be split into centuries (80 men) controlled by a Centurion. The centuries would then be divided into smaller groups with different jobs to perform.
4)At first they fortified these camps with timber, then from the second century CE they used stone. The Romans were expert builders and had perfected the art of masonry by creating a revolutionary new material that was known as 'opus caementicium' – a concrete made of rock, rubble or ceramic tiles.Provincia Britannia, today known as Roman Britain, was a province of the Roman Empire from 43AD to 409AD, spanning at its height in 160, the southern three-quarters of the island of Great Britain. Roman officials departed from Britain around the year 410AD, which began the sub-Roman period (5th–6th centuries), but the legacy of the Roman Empire was felt for centuries in Britain .Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years. It was built by the Roman army on the orders of the emperor Hadrian following his visit to Britain in AD 122. At 73 miles (80 Roman miles) long, it crossed northern Britain from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west. The most famous of all the frontiers of the Roman empire, Hadrian’s Wall was made a World Heritage Site in 1987.
ROMAN RESEARCH:
ReplyDeleteRoman roads were mostly straight. They built roads to travel on and not be ambushed. Watling Street is an example of a Roman road that still exists so is Fosse Street.
The Romans understood that dirty conditions made people ill, and provided many facilities - such as public baths, sewers and toilets - to promote public health. They had every incentive to do this, as they wanted the soldiers in their army to remain healthy, in order to keep the empire under control. Rome had nine public baths. Many of them were luxurious, 'covered with mirrors buried in glass lined with marble and silver'. For a fee of one sixteenth of a denarius bathers went from the hot 'caldarium' to the lukewarm 'tepidarium' and then dipped in the cold 'frigidarium'. Many baths had gymnasia and massage rooms attached. Aqueducts were a bridge which brought 222 million gallons of water a day into the city. They also built many great aqueducts throughout their empire.
The army was organised in a very simple way:
5000 Legionaries (Roman Citizens who were in the army) would form a Legion.The Legion would be split into centuries (80 men) controlled by a Centurion.The centuries would then be divided into smaller groups with different jobs to perform.
Roman soldiers were trained to fight well and to defend themselves. If the enemy shot arrows at them they would use their shields to surround their bodies and protect themselves this was know as ‘the turtle’.
Roman forts were large camps where soldiers could live comfortably while fighting. They were often built in a square shape and were protected by: strong walls, towers and ditches. Each side had a fortified gateway. Hardknott Fort is a fort that still exists today.Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years. It was built by the Roman army on the orders of the emperor Hadrian following his visit to Britain in AD 122. At 73 miles (80 Roman miles) long, it crossed northern Britain from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west. The most famous of all the frontiers of the Roman empire, Hadrian’s Wall was made a World Heritage Site in 1987.
We have seen lots of information this week and it will be a great resource for our explanation texts next week! Well done for doing so much research. SG
ReplyDeleteIt was important for the Roman army to be able to move soldiers and all their baggage around the country. They built road as straight possible, to travel as quickly as they could. Winding roads took longer to get to the place you wanted to go and bandits and robbers could be hiding around bends. The Romans built the first roads in Britain. They built over 9,000 kilometres of roads. The roads were so well built that you can still see some of them today, 2000 years after they were first built!
ReplyDeleteThe Romans developed the first-ever system of public health. Three important factors combined to cause them to create a public health system. ... Like the Greeks, the Romans believed in personal health and hygiene - the writer Juvenal coined the phrase "a healthy mind in a healthy body. Also, roman wanted to be strong and fit to fight.
The Roman Army was organized around large subdivisions called legions. The whole army consisted of around 22 legions, and each legion was comprised of around 5,000 men. Each legion was responsible for its own recruitment, provender and operations, though large operations often involved several legions working in concert. Each legion was subdivided into cohorts of around 480 men, and each cohort was likewise split into four or five centuries that were led by an officer called a centurion. Centurions were the key links in the chain of command. They wore distinctive armor, drew considerable pay and carried a staff, with which they were empowered to beat their subordinates. Beneath the centurion were Roman citizens who served as heavy infantry, known as legionaries, and foreign auxiliaries who worked as laborers, skirmishers and cavalry scouts.
• Why did Hadrian build his wall?
After the Romans invaded southern Britain, they had to defend it. They built roads, so that soldiers could march quickly to deal with trouble. They also built three very large army forts, and lots of smaller camps, for soldiers to live in. At first these forts were built of wood, later they were built of stone. Scotland was not part of Roman Britain, although in A.D. 84, the Romans won a big battle against the Picts who lived in Scotland. In A.D. 122 the Emperor Hadrian ordered his soldiers to build a wall between Roman Britain and Scotland. The wall ran from Wallsend in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth. You can still walk along parts of Hadrian's Wall today. In A.D. 140, the Romans added another wall further north. It's called the Antonina Wall. In the third century A.D. there was fighting along Hadrian's Wall. Emperor Septimius Severus had to come to Britain to fight tribes invading from Scotland. Although his soldiers won the battles, he got sick and died at York in A.D. 211. Roman forts were large camps where soldiers could live comfortably while fighting. They were often built in a square shape and were protected by: strong walls, towers and ditches. Each side had a fortified gateway. The soldiers kept watchdogs to smell any approaching enemies and sent out spies to report on suspicious enemy activities. In an ambush, huge catapults called ballistas would fire out iron bolts. Elax in off-duty, in return for money and protection from attack. Although legionary soldiers were not supposed to marry, many 'unofficial' wives and families would also live in the vicus too. Inside there were buildings to cater for all the soldiers' needs from: eating, sleeping and washing to banking and praying. There was also a small hospital to look after the sick and injured. A little village called a vicus grew up around many forts in which the local people would run take-away food stalls and inns for the soldiers to romans.
By Kashvi
Great work!
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